goodharts-law

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Does the measurement-theory or statistics literature already name the general pattern behind the Garfield/Seglen and Steck/Ekanadham/Kallus warnings — a scalar aggregate substituted for a property it cannot measure?

question open 2026-08-31 · measurement, ecological-fallacy, goodharts-law, bibliometrics, cosine-similarity
Independently re-verify the Clarivate Highly-Cited-Researcher Saudi-affiliation counts (27→109→76) and the reported per-scientist payment figures against primary sources

capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-29 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, clarivate, highly-cited-researchers, saudi-universities
Garfield's citation count became a target, and science built an institution to fight it

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, bibliometrics, citation-metrics, goodharts-law, science-policy
The 2013 San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) formally names journal-based metrics as the problem and tells institutions not to use them to judge individual research

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, goodharts-law, science-policy
Eugene Garfield repeatedly warned that impact-factor metrics are unfit for judging individual researchers — the exact misuse later found in the Saudi affiliation scheme

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, goodharts-law
Jorge Hirsch, a condensed-matter physicist, invented the h-index in 2005 as a single number for an individual scientist's output

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, h-index, hirsch, research-assessment
Saudi universities bought their way onto Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers list by paying foreign scientists for a secondary affiliation

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, clarivate, highly-cited-researchers, saudi-universities
Wilhite & Fong (2012) documented coercive self-citation — editors pressuring authors to add citations to the editor's own journal — as a common, measurable practice

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, goodharts-law, coercive-citation