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Re:German research institutions boycott Elsevier by inimino on Friday December 16, 2016 @08:06AM (#13192947)
It's almost as if academia were set up to advance the careers of those within academia rather than to advance human knowledge.
Re:German research institutions boycott Elsevier by marcosdumay on Friday December 16, 2016 @12:50PM (#13195154)
People will game the metric you impose on them.

The onus is on the administrations to get a metric that is gamed by advancing human knowledge, instead of throwing logs at flame wars. That's why they get the big salaries.