Reviewers are blinkered by bibliometrics

Paula Stephan, Reinhilde Veugelers and Jian Wang
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Jian Wang: Reinhilde Veugelers is a professor, and Jian Wang a postdoctoral researcher, Strategy and Innovation (MSI) and Center for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium.

Nature, 2017, vol. 544, issue 7651, 411-412

Abstract: Science panels still rely on poor proxies to judge quality and impact. That results in risk-averse research, say Paula Stephan, Reinhilde Veugelers and Jian Wang.

Date: 2017
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