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The day the Association of Business Schools¡¯ most recent ranking of journals was released, I woke to find that some of my publications had been transformed, as if by academic alchemy, from 3* lead to 4* gold (¡°The ratings game¡±, Research intelligence, 26 February). Although clearly ¡°intellectually vacuous and empirically false¡±, as Dennis Tourish puts it, my value in the academic market has gone up. What¡¯s not to like?

Mark Learmonth
Deputy dean (research)
Durham University Business School