If you don't trust researchers and their discussion of *content* and judge them by containers and citation scores, you will get containers and citation mills - and researchers will follow your orders and adapt. https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/12/how-a-widely-used-ranking-system-ended-up-with-three-fake-journals-in-its-top-10-philosophy-list/ #Scopus #bibliometric #academicUnfreedom

This is a very important decision: one of the well-known flaws of #bibliometric evaluation is its dependance on proprietary databases - with a conflict of interests, in the case of #Scopus, belonging to #Elsevier. And science, to be open, needs to do away with them.