Academic sell-out: how an obsession with metrics and rankings is damaging academia
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Are new metrics pushing out traditional measurement tools of academic communications and scholarship?
Introduction: Universities are the centers of interactions and communications and a basic of scientific products and publications in the country. Scientific production and publications are surveyed and evaluated for various reasons. Evaluation criteria with regard to the location, type and circumstances are different and are occasionally changed and new. In this study, we survey the new metrics...
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