Gaming the Metrics

Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-262-53793-3
Verlag: MIT Press

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

Reihe: Infrastructures

How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct.The traditional academic imperative to “publish or perish” is increasingly coupled with the newer necessity of “impact or perish”—the requirement that a publication have “impact,” as measured by a variety of metrics, including citations, views, and downloads. Gaming the Metrics examines how the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced radically new forms of academic fraud and misconduct. The contributors show that the metrics-based “audit culture” has changed the ecology of research, fostering the gaming and manipulation of quantitative indicators, which lead to the invention of such novel forms of misconduct as citation rings and variously rigged peer reviews.
The chapters, written by both scholars and those in the trenches of academic publication, provide a map of academic fraud and misconduct today. They consider such topics as the shortcomings of metrics, the gaming of impact factors, the emergence of so-called predatory journals, the “salami slicing” of scientific findings, the rigging of global university rankings, and the creation of new watchdogs and forensic practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biagioli, Mario

Lippman, Alexandra

Weitere Mitwirkende

Csiszar, Alex

Gingras, Yves

Power, Michael

Wouters, Paul

Griesemer, James R.

Kehm, Barbara M.

Rijcke, Sarah de

Stöckelová, Tereza

Fanelli, Daniele

Sismondo, Sergio

Oransky, Ivan

Barbour, Boris

Stell, Brandon

Guaspare, Catherine

Didier, Emmanuel

Brookes, Paul S.

Antkare, Ike

Morgenstern, Burkhard

Lin, Jennifer

Wager, Elizabeth

Brunton, Finn

Jacob, Marie-Andrée

Delfanti, Alessandro

Lippman, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Prüfungen und Beurteilungen
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Über Autor(innen)

Didier, Emmanuel
Emmanuel Didier is a Full Professor at the Centre Maurice Halbwachs at É cole Normale SupÉ rieure, Paris, and a member of the Center for the Study of Invention and Social Process at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is  a founding member of EpiDaPo (Epigenetics, Data, Politics), initially a joint research unit of CNRS and UCLA. He taught at the University of Chicago and at UCLA and now teaches at Ecole Normale SupÉ rieure and Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique, both in Paris.

Biagioli, Mario
Mario Biagioli is Distinguished Professor of Law and Communication at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Gingras, Yves
Yves Gingras is Professor and Canada Research Chair in History and Sociology of Science, Department of History, at Université du Qué bec à Montré al.

Brunton, Finn
Finn Brunton is Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and the author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (MIT Press).

Griesemer, James R.
James R. Griesemer is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis.

Wouters, Paul
Paul Wouters is Professor of Scientometrics and Director of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University.