SHOCKER: world’s most cited epidemiologist who publishes a hundred papers a year but has been subject to extensive criticism for shoddy work opines that we should use quantitative metrics rather than qualitative evaluation to assess researchers.
I’m honestly baffled as to why Plos Biology would publish this self-pitying blog post as an article.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002408
Carl T. Bergstrom /
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