In defense of quantitative metrics in researcher assessments

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John P. A. Ioannidis ,

* E-mail: jioannid@stanford.edu

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, of Epidemiology and Population Health, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics, and Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3118-6859

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Zacharias Maniadis

Affiliations SInnoPSis (Science and Innovation Policy and Studies) Unit, Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, Department of Economics, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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