Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended … new and unconventional research topics and methods …

a large extent the career of individual scholars. Such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which … scholars based on that measure is far from objective. Furthermore, the results differ markedly, depending on whether research … quantity or quality is considered. Thus, career decisions based on rankings are dominated by chance and do not reflect research …

, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern research. Academia, in a broader sense understood as “the locus of seeking …

Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended … new and unconventional research topics and methods. -- Academic governance ; rankings ; motivation ; selection …

, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of "university …" and inadequate organizational forms for modern research. Academia, in a broader sense understood as "the locus of seeking … transformation predicted is expected to be fundamental. -- academia ; universities ; research ; rankings ; publications ; fraud …