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Clickbait and impact: how academia has been hacked

18/10/2017

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A blog post I wrote in September 2017 with Max Gallien:
Last week, development studies journal Third World Quarterly (TWQ) published an article that, by many common metrics used in academia today, will be the most successful in its 38-year history. The paper has, in a few days, already achieved a higher Altmetric Attention Score than any other TWQ paper. By the rules of modern academia, this is a triumph. The problem is, the paper is not.
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