Title:
Games academics play and their consequences: how authorship, h-index and journal impact factors are shaping the future of academia
Authors:
Chapman, C.A. [et al.].
Published:
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, volume 286, issue 1916, 4 December 2020
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2047
From the abstract:
"Research is a highly competitive profession where evaluation plays a central role; journals are ranked and individuals are evaluated based on their publication number, the number of times they are cited and their h-index. Yet such evaluations are often done in inappropriate ways that are damaging to individual careers, particularly for young scholars, and to the profession."