Evaluating scholars simply by tallying their citations is “like saying Britney Spears is the most important artist who ever existed because she’s sold 50 million records,” said Johan Bolle, an associate professor of informatics and computing at Indiana University at Bloomington, as he introduced a daylong workshop on academic metrics here on Wednesday…
18 Dec
Posted by Calvin Chen on December 18, 2009 at 2:11 pm
the workshop sounds like a circus