‘I want to be able to do what I know the tools will allow us to do’: Practicing evaluative bibliometrics through digital infrastructure

Krüger, Anne K.; Petersohn, Sabrina

‘I want to be able to do what I know the tools will allow us to do’: Practicing evaluative bibliometrics through digital infrastructure

dc.contributor.author	Krüger, Anne K.
dc.contributor.author	Petersohn, Sabrina
dc.date.accessioned	2024-05-02T15:04:40Z
dc.date.available	2024-05-02T15:04:40Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.abstract	The proliferation of quantitative research assessment has been accompanied by an increasing growth and diversification of digital infrastructure for evaluative bibliometrics. Since the beginning of the 2000s, insights into academic performance provided by a variety of new databases and devices significantly exceed the capacities of the former Science Citation Index and embedded metrics. Going beyond the research on the construction, uses, and consequences of bibliometric indicators, we therefore posit that a perspective on bibliometric infrastructure is crucial for understanding how evaluative bibliometrics is put into practice. Drawing on interviews with academic librarians on the increasing provision and implementation of bibliometric infrastructure in the years 2013 and 2014, we analyse how the entanglement of technology and its users shapes how evaluative bibliometrics is understood and practiced.
dc.description.sponsorship	This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. We gratefully acknowledge funding received from the DZHW for publishing this article under an open access license.
dc.identifier.citation	Krüger, A. K., & Petersohn, S. (2023). ‘I want to be able to do what I know the tools will allow us to do’: Practicing evaluative bibliometrics through digital infrastructure. Research Evaluation, 31(4), 475–485. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvac009
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvac009
dc.identifier.issn	0958-2029
dc.identifier.issn	1471-5449
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/641
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.rights	open access
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.title	‘I want to be able to do what I know the tools will allow us to do’: Practicing evaluative bibliometrics through digital infrastructure
dc.type	Article
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
dcmi.type	Text
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url	https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvac009
local.researchgroup	Reorganisation von Wissenspraktiken
local.researchtopic	Organisation von Wissen