Academia is entirely driven by one’s numbers. To get to grad school you need good grades. Once in grad school, you need to keep good grades and publish papers in high ranked journals. It is unfortunate because there are people that are more intelligent than many people I have met in grad school but have worse grades. Our entire society is built on conforming to one standard when we all learn in different ways. I like the idea of the new academic publication tracking system. It provides more information than the h-index and provides a larger story to the individual researcher. Thanks for your post.