Research metrics have made rivalry part of higher education’s DNA | Peter Scott
by Peter Scott from on (#GBV8)
Academics have learned to live with attempts to measure university research, but is this the best way to judge success or failure?
Many academics now showcase their work on one or more "reputation" websites - Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Academia.edu " They are as familiar with their h-index - a number that measures the quality of a researcher's output - as they are with their phone numbers, and they are not ashamed to quote them in job or research applications.
They have learned to live with, if not love, these metrics, which rate the number of highly cited papers an academic has written. They seem solid compared with the old-fashioned peer review in which one lot of academics, anonymously of course, comments on the quality of the work of another lot.
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