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by friendzis 369 days ago
> Establish peer review as the metric of tenure and make dam sure those peers know their stuff.

And you are back at square one: peer reviews become the currency used in academic politics. A relatively small group of tenured academics have all the incentives to independently form a fiefdom. Anonymization does not help as everyone knows work and papers of the rest anyway.