Here is Goodhart’s law’s again: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. This has happened to a substantive swath of the scientific literature. When scientists started judging one another by the number of papers published, a market sprung up for journals willing to publish low-quality work. At the bottom of that particular barrel are journals produced by so-called predatory publishers. These parasites on the scientific publishing system provide little to nothing by way of rigorous peer review. Today they are sucking tens of millions of dollars from the academic system
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