Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics 'overwhelmed'

6 rustoo 2 7/13/2025, 5:16:32 PM theguardian.com ↗

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quantified · 5h ago

As soon as you manage to a metric is ceases to be useful. Count of publications and count of citations has become such a metric. Too many humans involved now.

nmstoker · 3h ago

Indeed, that's Goodhart's Law:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law