Some researchers may recoil from metrics-based assessment. But they should know how others are keeping score, say Maria Pavlou and Eleftherios P. Diamandis.
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Pavlou, M., Diamandis, E. The athletes of science. Nature 478, 419 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7369-419a
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