Not to discredit anyone but don't a lot of universities just pump out shitty scientific articles exactly because universities are ranked using this metric?
Once any metric is used to measure success it immediately becomes useless. Or something like that
studies show that China is putting out higher quality research than the US though https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/China-tops-U.S.-in-quantity-and-quality-of-scientific-papers
In my experiences with American math, CS, and eng researchers, this is the trend for everybody because the researchers want to bump their numbers up, it's how they can get school positions, they need grants, it increases employability, etc.
Once any metric is used to measure success it immediately becomes useless. Or something like that
So true, I've always said for the longest time here that stuff like average life span and malnutrition rates are dumb metrics to measure a population's healthiness
Not to discredit anyone but don't a lot of universities just pump out shitty scientific articles exactly because universities are ranked using this metric?
Once any metric is used to measure success it immediately becomes useless. Or something like that
studies show that China is putting out higher quality research than the US though https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/China-tops-U.S.-in-quantity-and-quality-of-scientific-papers
In my experiences with American math, CS, and eng researchers, this is the trend for everybody because the researchers want to bump their numbers up, it's how they can get school positions, they need grants, it increases employability, etc.
So true, I've always said for the longest time here that stuff like average life span and malnutrition rates are dumb metrics to measure a population's healthiness