Academic Incentives and Science

" ... My argument 1. Incentive structures of science are philosophical. Examples: double-blind design, replication, and peer-review. They are typically designed to aid scientific goals. 2. Incentives structures in academia are economic. Examples: tenure, h-index, and journal impact factors. They are not designed to meet scientific goals. They emerge as byproducts of human goals and economic competition within and among social groups. (Economic competition exists between publishing companies, between individuals, between labs, between departments, between universities, and academia vs other state-funded institutions). 3. Therefore, many academic incentives  bad science. 4. Question: How can we design better academic incentive structures so that they serve the interests of science? ..."