Where are the numbers? by Norman Fenton and Martin Neil

Where are the numbers? by Norman Fenton and Martin Neil

The Capture of Academia: new book excerpt

The h-Index and the industrialisation of academic mediocrity

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Norman Fenton
May 13, 2026
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I have just completed the draft of my new book “The Capture of Academia: How Universities Shape Power, Silence Dissent, and Influence Society”. I will be putting some excerpts from it here on Substack, starting today with a section from the chapter titled “Corrupting Peer Review”. It is about the metric widely used to assess the quality of individual re…

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