Fewer numbers, better science

Rinze Benedictus, Frank Miedema () and Mark W. J. Ferguson ()
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Rinze Benedictus: Rinze Benedictus is staff adviser at the University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands, and a PhD candidate at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Frank Miedema: Frank Miedema is professor of immunology, and dean and vice-chairman of the executive board of the University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is one of the founders of Science in Transition.
Mark W. J. Ferguson: Mark W. J. Ferguson is director-general of Science Foundation Ireland, and chief scientific adviser to the Government of Ireland.

Nature, 2016, vol. 538, issue 7626, 453-455

Abstract: Scientific quality is hard to define, and numbers are easy to look at. But bibliometrics are warping science — encouraging quantity over quality. Leaders at two research institutions describe how they do things differently.

Date: 2016
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