I think there is, and it actually is sort of, in some ways, consistent with peer review. I suppose that may seem contradictory, but hear me out for a moment. I think that instead of looking at citation counts, which are sort of born of the very pernicious “publish or perish” incentives, and turning everything into a metric, we should look at the quality of the research and look at a handful of papers that, maybe, a particular individual is publishing—and maybe a larger number for a research project. We heard earlier from one of my colleagues on the panel that there are people who are excluded from that because they are—
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