Many researchers believe that quantitative metrics determine who gets hired and who gets promoted at their institutions. With an exclusive poll and interviews, Nature probes to what extent metrics are really used that way.
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See Editorial, page 845 , and metrics special at http://www.nature.com/metrics . Full results of the survey are available at http://go.nature.com/em7auj .
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Abbott, A., Cyranoski, D., Jones, N. et al. Metrics: Do metrics matter?. Nature 465, 860–862 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465860a
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