Abstract
After years of trying to move away from assessing its scientists strictly on the basis of numbers, China is still struggling to find a feasible alternative to counting the number of papers published or patents issued, how many times they are cited, and the impact factors of the journals. As the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the country and began to spread across the globe, public anger erupted in February over scientists’ rush to publish papers rather than find a practical solution. The Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Education jointly issued guidance asking universities and research funders to stop relying solely on scientific papers when assessing faculty and grant applications. The evaluation of scientists should rely on their genuine contributions to scientific innovation, the guidance said—but it did not clarify how that contribution should be appraised, aside from encouraging positive consideration of papers published domestically as well as
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