Διαφωνώ μαζί σου, όπως και το CERN και δεν είχε κανένα λόγο να θίξει αυτό το ζήτημα στο δεδομένο πλαίσιο, there's a time and a place.Επίσης FYI ο αριθμός των citations δεν φαίνεται να είναι ο μόνο κριτήριο βάσει του οποίου γίνονται προσλήψεις σ΄αυτά τα πεδία κι αφενός κι αν θέλουμε να είμαστε περισσότερο αντικειμενικοί αφετέρου θα πρέπει να γίνει μελέτη σε τι αφορούν τα citations και από πού προέρχονται (*)(**) αλλιώς δημιουργούμε εντυπώσεις μόνον.(*) Και ναι, συνάδελφοι του κυρίου έχουν τις ενστάσεις τους αναφορικά:Strumia complains that he personally was not hired for a position that a woman was hired for, despite having a larger number of citations than her. He even compares his citation number to that of a (female) member of the search committee for this job. This information is surely useful for understanding the psychology of why Strumia would give such a talk, but it is no indication of injustice in the hiring process. Indeed citations accrue for all kinds of reasons, some laudable and some not, and using them as a substitute for scientific quality is very problematic; any responsible hiring process will take much more into account than mere citations, especially for a management role, as in the case of the position in question. As an example of the inappropriateness of citations as a metric, almost 1/3 of Strumia's citations come from being one of thousands of authors on the CMS Higgs discovery paper, to which we can safely conclude that his contribution (as a theoretical associate in an experimental collaboration) was modest. Hundreds more citations come from papers about the statistically insignificant 750 GeV fluctuation at CERN, which disappeared with more data.(**) Strumia can use citations as an exact proxy for physics ability. By the way, he “inspired” me to check my citation count on the Inspire database and it is a LOT bigger than his. And I mean several times bigger. So clearly I am not being paid enough and should have all the jobs. Or maybe it’s just that I’m on some big collaborations, like ATLAS. Or CMS, which has a Higgs discovery paper with more than 8000 citations. Which, funnily enough, is one of only two CMS papers I can find of which Strumia is an author, despite being a theorist. So that’s more than a quarter of his citation count there even though he only popped into the collaboration for a couple of papers. He must have done something super useful for CMS.
