Overstretching and close measurement of researchers is leading to a dysfunctional scholarly system, a conference of people in academic publishing has heard.
“People are starting to think of citations as the scholarly form of the ‘like’ button,” said academic publishing insider Geoffrey Bilder, addressing the UKSG conference in Glasgow on 30 March. Bilder said that academics could consider limiting the numbers of outputs they publish in order to stop them being judged on volume by funders and promotion boards.
Bilder is the director of strategic initiatives at CrossRef, a not-for-profit association of academic publishers that runs the dominant citation linking system.
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