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A CS researcher's unusually high h-index exposes an expansive citation network (retractionwatch.com)
4 points by leephillips 14 days ago
2 comments
bell-cot 14 days ago
"Ruthlessly optimizing for metric X sounded great, but somehow that failed to give us outcome Y." -Anon
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rbanffy 14 days ago
Is the CS community more prone to game metrics? I have a feeling most in the area would do that even if there weren’t any external incentives.

I’d go for prime palindromes.

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leephillips 14 days ago
I don’t think so. Just in Retraction Watch there have been several similar stories about citation manipulation, perversion of the review process, and so on, in medicine, biology, and other fields. I don’t know whether these ugly practices are becoming more common or whether they are detected more frequently. If the former, it’s another signal of the decay of modern science.
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rbanffy 14 days ago
> If the former, it’s another signal of the decay of modern science.

I'd say the incentives are misaligned.

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