Although far from being infallible, the entire enterprise of citation index and impact factor is better than the alternative, straightforward bean counting.
With the telecom market no longer focused drunkenly on revenue growth to the exclusion of costs, such bean counting is more important than ever.
Martin's amateurish bean counting blinds him to the significance of what our respondents actually say.
The idea that there is some intellectual or academic content to bean counting is ridiculous.
I thought it was too much bean counting and not enough good treatment of performers.
The government's obsession with waiting times is nothing more than bean counting.
In these days of corporate bean counting and environmental awareness, main-stream car manufacturers very rarely make anything just for the sheer hell of it.
The publish-or-perish emphasis for some, but not all, institutions has deteriorated into bean counting, and the race is on to publish en masse.
Definition of bean counting in US English:
bean counting
noun
informal
See bean counter
Example sentencesExamples
The publish-or-perish emphasis for some, but not all, institutions has deteriorated into bean counting, and the race is on to publish en masse.
The idea that there is some intellectual or academic content to bean counting is ridiculous.
I thought it was too much bean counting and not enough good treatment of performers.
The government's obsession with waiting times is nothing more than bean counting.
In these days of corporate bean counting and environmental awareness, main-stream car manufacturers very rarely make anything just for the sheer hell of it.
Martin's amateurish bean counting blinds him to the significance of what our respondents actually say.
With the telecom market no longer focused drunkenly on revenue growth to the exclusion of costs, such bean counting is more important than ever.
Although far from being infallible, the entire enterprise of citation index and impact factor is better than the alternative, straightforward bean counting.