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Surviving the Ranking Madness: A Geoscientist’s Guide to Keeping Your Academic Soul Intact

Surviving the Ranking Madness: A Geoscientist’s Guide to Keeping Your Academic Soul Intact

The Academic Identity Crisis Ever googled yourself to check if your h-index went up? Compared your publication statistics to a peer? Published in a paywall journal while cursing the system? – Same. Welcome to the slightly neurotic world of academic evaluation—where current incentives often pull us away from the values we hold as scientists: curiosity, creativity, responsibility, and even actual sc ...[Read More]