Video for Gaming Metrics Conference

Please follow the links to watch videos of the conference proceedings of “Gaming Metrics: Innovation and Surveillance in Academic Misconduct” held at UC Davis February 3-4th, 2016.

DAY 1

Welcoming remarks (Ralph Hexter, Provost, UC Davis)

FROM PUBLISH OR PERISH TO IMPACT OR PERISH (Mario Biagioli, STS & Law, UC Davis)

GAMING THE GAME ACROSS THE BOARD

• Timothy Lenoir (UC Davis, Cinema and Digital Media & Science and Technology Studies) (Chair)
• Alex Csiszar (Harvard University, History of Science) “(Gaming) Metrics Before the Game”
• Paul Wouters (Leiden University, Science and Technology Studies) “The Mismeasurement of Quality and Impact”
• Karen Levy (NYU, Media, Culture, and Communication) “Networks of Resistance in Trucking”

UNIVERSITY RANKINGS: GAMING OR COOKING?

• Martin Kenney (UC Davis, Human Ecology) (Chair)
• Barbara Kehm (University of Glasgow, School of Education Robert Owen Centre for Education Change) “Global University Rankings: Impacts and Applications”
• Lior Pachter (UC Berkeley, Mathematics) “How King Abdulaziz University Became a ‘Better’ University than MIT in Mathematics”
• Daniele Fanelli (Stanford University, METRICS) “Institutional Pressures to Publish: What effects do we see?”

PERSONAL V. INDUSTRIAL CHEATING

• MacKenzie Smith (UC Davis, University Librarian) (Chair)
• Finn Brunton (NYU, Media, Culture, and Communication) “Making People and Influencing Friends: Citation Networks and the Appearance of Significance”
• Sarah de Rijcke (Leiden University, Science and Technology Studies) “System Identity: Predatory publishing as socio-technical disruption”
• Jeffrey Beall (University of Colorado, Denver, Information Science) “Fake Impact Factors and the Abuse of Bibliometrics”
• Dan Morgan (University of California Press, Collabra Project) “Cui Bono? Judging Intentions (and Outcomes) of Personal and Industrial Cheating”

META GAMING, META CHEATING

• Anupam Chander (UC Davis, Law) (Chair)
• Johan Bollen (Indiana University, School of Informatics and Computing) “From Bibliometric Metrics to Crowd-Sourced Science Funding Systems”
• Carl T. Bergstrom (University of Washington, Biology) “It’s All a Game: The twin fallacies of epistemic purity and a scholarly invisible hand”
• Jennifer Lin (Crossref) “Trust through Transparency: O brave new world/ That has such data in’t!”
• Michael Power (London School of Economics, Accounting) “Research Impact and the Logic of Auditability: Solicited testimony as a case of meta-gaming”
• James Griesemer (UC Davis, Philosophy) “Taking Goodhart’s Law Meta: Gaming, Meta-Gaming, and Hacking Academic Performance Metrics”

Day 2:

Watch HERE.

Welcoming Remarks (Kevin Johnson, Dean, UC Davis School of Law)

MISCONDUCT WATCHDOGS (I)

• Jonathan Eisen (UC Davis, Genome Center) (Chair)
• Ivan Oransky (Retraction Watch & NYU) “Retraction Watch: What We’ve Learned Since 2010”
• John Bohannon (Science Magazine) “Grey Hat Hacking for Science”
• Elizabeth Wager (Sideview) “Why Do We Need a Committee on Publication Ethics and What Should It Do?”

MISCONDUCT WATCHDOGS (II)

• Jonathan Eisen (UC Davis, Genome Center) (Chair)
• Darren Taichman (Executive Deputy Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine Vice President, American College of Physicians) “A False Sense of Security?”
• Debora Weber-Wulff (University of Applied Sciences Berlin, HTW, Media and Computing & VroniPlag Wiki) “Documenting Plagiarism in Doctoral Theses: The Work of the VroniPlag Wiki Academic Community in Germany”
• Brandon Stell (The PubPeer Foundation & CNRS) “Introducing PubPeer”
• Emmanuel Didier and Catherine Guaspare (EPiDaPo, UCLA) “The Voinnet Affair: New Norms in High-Pressured Science”

COUNTERFEITING BRANDS V. FAKING PRODUCTS

• Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis, Law) (Chair)
• Marie-Andree Jacob (Keele University, Law) “Template, Creativity and Publication Ethics”
• Alessandro Delfanti (University of Toronto, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology) “ArXiv or viXra? Physics and the quest for the true archive”
• Sergio Sismondo (Queen’s University, Philosophy) “Leveraging Academic Value in the Pharmaceutical Industry”

CARNIVALESQUE RESPONSES

• Alexandra Lippman (UC Davis, Innovating Communication in Scholarship) (Chair)
• Cyril Labbé (Joseph Fourier University – Grenoble I) “Ike Antkare, His Publications and Those of His Disciples”
• Burkhard Morgenstern (Universität Göttingen, Bioinformatics) “Virtual Editors Can Significantly Improve the Visibility of Junk Journals – A case study”
• Paul Brookes (University of Rochester, Medicine) “Crossing the Line – Pseudonyms & Snark in Post-Pub Peer Review”