Ioannidis, John P.A. and Maniadis, Zacharias (2023) In defense of quantitative metrics in researcher assessments. PLoS Biology, 21 (12), e3002408, [e3002408]. (doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002408).
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Qualitative assessments of researchers are resource-intensive, untenable in non-meritocratic settings and error-prone. Although often derided, quantitative metrics could help improve research practices if they are rigorous, field-adjusted, and centralized.
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Accepted/In Press date: 30 October 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 December 2023
Published date: December 2023
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Copyright: © 2023 Ioannidis, Maniadis. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/485667
ISSN: 1544-9173
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