The Rise and Rise of Research Metrics - Daniel Hook

Even in the face of the responsible metrics movement, metrics continue to have a pervasiveness in the research ecosystem that many would consider to be concerning. Daniel will introduce some ideas regarding our psychological relationship with metrics in academia and discuss how we became addicted to attention. He will then consider some new metrics that take us away from attention-based metrics and finally reflect on the future of metrics and how AI could change our future relationship with them.