Academic sell-out: how an obsession with metrics and rankings is damaging academia

Increasingly, academics have to demonstrate that their research has academic impact. Universities normally use journal rankings and journal impact factors to assess the research impact of individual academics. More recently, citation counts for individual articles and the h-index have also been used...

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Main Author:	Thorsten Gruber
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2014
Subjects:	Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified Metrics Journal impact factor Journal ranking Citations Open access Altmetrics h-index Academia Business and Management not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/16336
Tags:	Add Tag ranking 1