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The tenure process does not ask for citation counts, it asks for impact.
Of course, quite a few colleagues missed the memo and equate the two. A lot of others see publication as the sole and main goal of their existence. Very sad.
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Emin Gün Sirer
@el33th4xor
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So many academics forget that our goal, as a profession, is *not* to publish papers. It's to change the world.
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Charles Hoskinson
@IOHK_Charles
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Then why is the incentive model built around the former instead of the latter?
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Charles Hoskinson
@IOHK_Charles
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23. svi 2018. |
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Impact is a subjective and often difficult to measure metric given the slow burn nature of research. It can take years or even decades for work to find real life use or impact on their field.
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Emin Gün Sirer
@el33th4xor
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23. svi 2018. |
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Indeed. This is why top schools are comfortable with evaluating people using (highly subjective) letters, and the weaker schools fall back onto dumb, easily gamed measures like the H-index.
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David Manheim
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23. svi 2018. |
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Agreed that it's a problem, but given that we don't define "impact" rigorously, we are left with a choice between inevitably misaligned metrics or subjective and potentially biased ad-hoc judgments.
ribbonfarm.com/2016/09/29/sof…
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Emin Gün Sirer
@el33th4xor
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23. svi 2018. |
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We carry around giant, complex, nuanced, and wonderful neural networks to handle subjective, ad-hoc judgments.
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Charles Hoskinson
@IOHK_Charles
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23. svi 2018. |
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From GPA to H-Index, Goodhart's law applies
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Micah Warren
@micah_warren
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23. svi 2018. |
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The tenure process asks for essentially, “impact, as measured by citation counts. “
It’s even worse. They literally count pages and want an explanation as to why papers in my area are shorter than papers in other fields.
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Federico Cabitza
@cabitzaf
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24. svi 2018. |
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And so many missed the memo saying that you can change the world and have an impact on it also by being a good teacher of future generations. We are speaking of academics, ain't we?
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web_development
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I wonder what should happen to academics selling out to the highest bidder?
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