Michael Nielsen » The mismeasurement of science

"In this essay I argue that heavy reliance on a small number of metrics is bad for science....One tentative idea I have which might help address this problem is to democratize the creation of new metrics. This can happen if open science becomes the norm, so scientific results are openly accessible, online, making it possible, at least in principle, for anyone to develop new metrics. That sort of development will lead to a healthy proliferation of different ideas about what constitutes “good science”...."