I went down a little rabbit hole of links while reading John 3:14 and came across this article on the difference between the caduceus and the rod of Asclepius, which was useful and informative, but surprised me that something of that style and quality could be published in an academic journal, which led me down another rabbit hole of h-indices and academic publishing.
When I was in graduate school, publishing a sole-authored paper in a top-tier peer-reviewed journal was the gold standard, especially if said paper was then cited in other peer-reviewed publications. The policy research institute I work at prizes op-eds written in Malay that are published in local newspapers, especially if they are then picked up and quoted by politicians.
Neither standard measures whether the piece is widely read, let alone if it is actually impactful in any meaningful way, and even if it were any or all of those things, are any of these metrics a valid measure of quality writing?