Metrics used to measure academic success, such as the number of publications, citation number, and impact factor have become targets and follow Goodhart’s Law, according to which, “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" finds a study analyzing >120 million papers

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Metrics used to measure academic success, such as the number of publications, citation number, and impact factor have become targets and follow Goodhart’s Law, according to which, “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" finds a study analyzing >120 million papers