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Comment by swiftcoder

6 days ago

You know, we briefly had this with the h-index, and now h-index manipulation is so rife that it is no longer highly correlated with successful academic careers

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__MatrixMan__  6 days ago

I see, I hadn't seen the h-index before. I guess that's Goodhart's law for you.

There's got to be ways to improve things though.

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