Gaming The Metrics by Mario Biagioli
Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research
A collection that examines how quantitative indicators meant to assess research—citation counts, impact factors, rankings, and altmetrics—reshape academic behavior and invite strategic manipulation. Through case studies from across disciplines and national systems, contributors trace practices such as citation cartels, paper mills, predatory publishing, and fake peer review, showing how platformized infrastructures and audit cultures incentivize gaming and blur boundaries between legitimate optimization and misconduct. It argues that metrics are not neutral measures but tools of governance that reconfigure labor, value, and ethics in scholarly work, and it considers policy and institutional responses that might mitigate these perverse effects.
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- 2020
- Nationality
- American
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- Pages
- 300-400
- Original Language
- English
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