The active use of metrics in everyday research activities suggests academics have accepted them as standards of evaluation, that they are “thinking with indicators”. Yet when asked, many academics profess concern about the limitations of evaluative metrics and the extent of their use.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/08/15/despite-becoming-increasing-institutionalised-there-remains-a-lack-of-discourse-about-research-metrics-among-much-of-academia/