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gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social • 10 days ago

academic papers as "simply citable tokens"

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Reposted from LSE Impact Blog

💥New: Does authorship mean anything when academic papers are simply citable tokens?

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jcschultz.bsky.social•10 days ago

There's a lot wrong with this analysis. It appears to be ill-informed.

mikemorrison.bsky.social•9 days ago

Which part struck you as the most problematic?

jcschultz.bsky.social•8 days ago

One example: "What do all these authors do? Not a lot." The author can't possibly support this assertion, which is - in my 40-yr experience - false. Science is a team sport and sometimes requires big teams.

jcschultz.bsky.social•8 days ago

Another: "The role of academic publishing was once to distribute knowledge from research to the public at large." To the best of my knowledge, this has never been true.

jcschultz.bsky.social•8 days ago

The author seems surprisingly ill-informed about academic life. I won't defend this, but the reason citations have become so important in academia is that hiring committees and administrators - who can't evaluate 'quality' - need a metric, and use that. This produces abuse, of course.

mikemorrison.bsky.social•9 days ago

Really enjoyed this article thanks for posting it!

If we want to improve these problems it helps to have somebody catalog them well like this.

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