Actually the problem is that funding agencies and universities started to implement success metrics. I mean you are trying to measure something which is inherently difficult to impossible to measure (what is good science).
Moreover, you essentially make the career of some very intelligent people depend on this arbitrary metric that you have created, what do you expect to happen? Obviously they will work to that metric, which then people complain about they are gaming the system. No, they actually work toward the metric that you (not you personally obviously) have created.
Moreover, you essentially make the career of some very intelligent people depend on this arbitrary metric that you have created, what do you expect to happen? Obviously they will work to that metric, which then people complain about they are gaming the system. No, they actually work toward the metric that you (not you personally obviously) have created.