2026-01-19 09:16:02
The number of publications is an often used KPI in researcher assessment for promotions, hiring, academic prizes or more. Yet does the quantity tell a relevant story of the quality or impact of our research? I don’t think so.
I'd argue that we should stop celebrating researchers with overly many publications each year.














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ACM is Now Open Access!
All publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the call for research to be more accessible, discoverable, and reusable.
ACM President Yannis Ioannidis stated “ACM will become one of the very few organizations to offer a large, integrated, and highly curated library of articles and related artifacts openly accessible to all. It is an important step not just for ACM but for the world of computing as…](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/827/477/854/934/214/small/25985aa177459fb0.png)

































