"“excellence” is not excellent. Used in its current unqualified form it is a pernicious and dangerous rhetoric that undermines the very foundations of good research and scholarship." Moore, Neylon, Paul Eve et al. “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence.
"indicators which denoted of prestige and competition were generally rated as important to career advancement, but irrelevant or even detrimental in advancing science" Aubert Bonn & Pinxten (2021). Advancing science or advancing careers? Researchers’ opinions on success indicators.
The way in which we assess researchers has been under the radar in the past few years. Critics argue that current research assessments focus on productivity and that they increase unhealthy pressures ...