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Gaming the metrics : misconduct and manipulation in academic research / edited by Mario Biagioli and Alexandra Lippman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Infrastructures.
- Infrastructures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scholarly publishing--Corrupt practices.
- Scholarly publishing.
- Learning and scholarship--Corrupt practices.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Research--Corrupt practices.
- Research.
- Communication in learning and scholarship--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Communication in learning and scholarship.
- Corruption.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Gaming metrics before the game : citation and the bureaucratic virtuoso / Alex Csiszar
- The transformation of the scientific paper : from knowledge to accounting unit / Yves Gingras
- Playing and being played by the research impact game / Michael Power
- The mismeasurement of quality and impact / Paul Wouters
- Taking Goodhart's law meta : gaming, meta-gaming, and hacking academic performance metrics / James Griesemer
- Global university rankings' impacts and applications / Barbara M. Kehm
- Predatory publishing and the imperative of international productivity : feeding off and feeding up the dominant / Sarah de Rijcke & Tereza StÃckelová
- Pressures to publish : what effects do we see? / Daniele Fanelli
- Ghost-managing and gaming pharmaceutical knowledge / Sergio Sismondo
- Retraction watch : what we've learned, and how metrics play a role / Ivan Oransky
- PubPeer : scientific assessment without metrics / Boris Barbour & Brandon Stell
- The Voinnet affair : testing the norms of scientific image management / Catherine Guaspare & Emmanuel Didier
- Crossing the line : pseudonyms & snark in post-publication peer review / Paul S. Brookes
- Ike Antkare, his publications and those of his disciples / Ike Antkare
- Fake scientists on editorial boards can significantly enhance the visibility of junk journals / Burkhard Morgenstern
- Altmetrics gaming : beast within or without? / Jennifer Lin
- Why we could stop worrying about gaming metrics if we stopped using journal articles for publishing scientific research / Elizabeth Wager
- Making people and influencing friends : citation networks and the appearance of significance / Finn Brunton
- Crack open the make-believe : counterfeit, publication ethics and the Global South / Marie-André Jacob
- Fake archives : the search for openness in scholarly communication platforms / Alessandro Delfanti
- Humor, hoaxes and software : the carnivalesque in the search for academic misconduct / Alexandra Lippman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262356565
- 0262356562
- Publisher Number:
- 99983198851
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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