Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure … of individual scholars is far from objective. The results differ markedly, depending on whether research quantity or …

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure … of individual scholars is far from objective. The results differ markedly, depending on whether research quantity or …

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure … of individual scholars is far from objective. The results differ markedly, depending on whether research quantity or …

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure … of individual scholars is far from objective. The results differ markedly, depending on whether research quantity or …

In a former article we started to argue that publication and citation rankings of individual scholars do not … randomly correlated with citation and publication rankings of these scholars. In this article we go a step further by … hypothesizing a systematic, inverted U-shaped relationship between quantitative and qualitative rankings. By relying on a …

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and determine to … a large extent the career of individual scholars. Such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which … should be the essence of any evaluation. These quantity rankings are not objective; two citation rankings, based on different …

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure … of individual scholars is far from objective. The results differ markedly, depending on whether research quantity or …

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure … of individual scholars is far from objective. The results differ markedly, depending on whether research quantity or …

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and determine to … a large extent the career of individual scholars. Such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which … should be the essence of any evaluation. These quantity rankings are not objective; two citation rankings, based on different …

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania …