What Do, What Did, and What Should We Do About “A’s”?
回应了Aguinis等人关于学术研究评价的文章，反思了当代衡量和比较学术成功的方法，指出尽管当前指标存在问题，但相比过去偏见更少，且评价方法将持续演进。
Original article: Aguinis, H., Cummings, C., Ramani, R., and Cummings, T., “An A is an A:” The New Bottom Line for Valuing Academic Research, https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2017.0193In responding to Aguinis, Cummings, Ramani, and Cummings’ (2020) article in this issue, I reflect on contemporary approaches to measuring and comparing scholarly success, as well as some important dimensions that are ignored in their article. I also summarize prior approaches to such comparative measurement, such as election to membership in the Royal Society and Académie des Sciences, and indicate that there will always be means of comparing success that will make some happy and others angry. This comparison makes evident that whatever the problems with contemporary indices, there is certainly less bias than in the past. Contemporary indices are part of a longer progression of measurement approaches that will continue to evolve.