Publish and Perish
So I trawl through some stuff I linked to read later, and checked out this fascinating little program to quantify your academic life. My god, it trawls the net (well, Google Scholar), grabs what it can, and turns you into a series of figures. No longer do we need to read anything, we can just rate people on their stats! All kinds of goodness here, like Hirsch’s h-index and related parameters, Egghe’s g-index not to mention that old party-trick, the age-weighted citation rate.
It is a little scary, really. It assumes that things like citation defines research, not their originality or even their strive to go against what is commonly accepted. In fact, it quantifies dogmatism and naturalizes the same.
