The academic system is overly focused on metrics like paper count and H-index, leading to a lack of genuine scientific discovery and innovation

Signals over time

2 observed signals across 1 sources, tracked for 0 days. Confidence: low.

What people are saying Observed

• “I don't really care, I got my ticket out already in case I don't like whatever is coming next. Best-case, funding will be given with less strings attached, and academia will be about science and discovery instead of status chasing, hierarchy building and number of papers as an incentive. Worst-case, everything will be clout/social-based instead. Your papers will only be accepted if your dept/supervisor/company has clout. Either way, the outcome that things will break is inevitable, and the monkey-patching the conferences are applying currently due to the overload like max submission counts and prompt-injections are temporary measures that will not fix the core of that the incentive of paper count and H-index does not make sense in a world where information can be generated for free.”

  Hacker News · frustration

• “I don't really care, I got my ticket out already in case I don't like whatever is coming next. Best-case, funding will be given with less strings attached, and academia will be about science and discovery instead of status chasing, hierarchy building and number of papers as an incentive. Worst-case, everything will be clout/social-based instead. Your papers will only be accepted if your dept/supervisor/company has clout. Either way, the outcome that things will break is inevitable, and the monkey-patching the conferences are applying currently due to the overload like max submission counts and prompt-injections are temporary measures that will not fix the core of that the incentive of paper count and H-index does not make sense in a world where information can be generated for free.”

  Hacker News · frustration