"Ruthlessly optimizing for metric X sounded great, but somehow that failed to give us outcome Y." -Anon

Is the CS community more prone to game metrics? I have a feeling most in the area would do that even if there weren’t any external incentives.

I’d go for prime palindromes.

I don’t think so. Just in Retraction Watch there have been several similar stories about citation manipulation, perversion of the review process, and so on, in medicine, biology, and other fields. I don’t know whether these ugly practices are becoming more common or whether they are detected more frequently. If the former, it’s another signal of the decay of modern science.

> If the former, it’s another signal of the decay of modern science.

I'd say the incentives are misaligned.