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by danso 4991 days ago
I hate that my first reaction to this was a jaded groan. In actuality, whatever your profit motive, your stated goal is quite noble and valuable. It is always astonishing to me how litte researchers and academics care about the metrics of dissemination, as if printing something for their peers to read and having inset charts hidden away in the body of the text was all that's needed to make their work known. But not much effort is taken to improve communication and transparency because hey, academics are smart enough to figure it out themselves, right? Good luck with your work.
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> how litte researchers and academics care about the metrics of dissemination

I think if anything, the pendulum has shifted rapidly to the other direction, where many (and especially many in administration) care for little besides metrics. Impact factors, acceptance rates, citation counts, h-indices, media "hits", etc. are the currencies that rule academic promotion.