[weiliddat]

Yeah it's a well-known secret, and I think any sort of scoring system misses the point. The scentific method (and system, incl. peer reviews) is a public good (like good governance) that requires moral acknowledgement, the necessary social/cultural/political/academic pressures, and discipline of taking care of it by participating parties.

If you add a score/metric this incentivizes the wrong thing, like how money, funding, and career already incentivizes all the wrong non-scientific behaviors (like faking data, p-hacking, etc.)

[StableAlkyne]

> If you add a score/metric this incentivizes the wrong thing,

Don't we already have all of these things because academia decided to use H-index as a metric for career impact?

[weiliddat]

Yeah exactly. One more metric isn't going to solve it.