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  1. Gaming the Metrics
    Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research
    Contributor: Biagioli, Mario (Herausgeber); Lippman, Alexandra (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  The MIT Press, Cambridge ; OAPEN FOUNDATION, The Hague

    How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct. The traditional academic imperative to “publish or perish” is increasingly coupled with the newer necessity of “impact... more

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    How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct. The traditional academic imperative to “publish or perish” is increasingly coupled with the newer necessity of “impact or perish”—the requirement that a publication have “impact,” as measured by a variety of metrics, including citations, views, and downloads. Gaming the Metrics examines how the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced radically new forms of academic fraud and misconduct. The contributors show that the metrics-based “audit culture” has changed the ecology of research, fostering the gaming and manipulation of quantitative indicators, which lead to the invention of such novel forms of misconduct as citation rings and variously rigged peer reviews. The chapters, written by both scholars and those in the trenches of academic publication, provide a map of academic fraud and misconduct today. They consider such topics as the shortcomings of metrics, the gaming of impact factors, the emergence of so-called predatory journals, the “salami slicing” of scientific findings, the rigging of global university rankings, and the creation of new watchdogs and forensic practices.

     
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  2. Do working papers increase journal citations?
    evidence from the top 5 journals in economics
    Author: Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bürgi, Constantin
    Published: October 2020
    Publisher:  CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

    Does it pay off in terms of citations to issue an article as a working paper before it is published in a refereed journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics between 2000... more

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    Does it pay off in terms of citations to issue an article as a working paper before it is published in a refereed journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics between 2000 and 2010. The effect is an around 25% higher number of citations on average across the investigated journals.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/229461
    Series: CESifo working paper ; no. 8643 (2020)
    Subjects: working paper; peer review; citations; RePEc; preprint
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 15 Seiten), Illustrationen