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> your citation count, number of papers, awards etc quickly becomes insignificant compared to those who are

There are few metrics with which academia can judge how effective a researcher is. If you're not interested in getting as many papers/citations/awards in whatever way you can then you may be in the wrong game.




>If you're not interested in getting as many papers/citations/awards in whatever way you can then you may be in the wrong game.

Or rather it could be that the game itself is whats wrong, leading to a reproducibility crisis, fraud, group think, walled gardens and ivory towers.


It's all in the game, yo.




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