Quantification 2.0? Bibliometric Infrastructures in Academic Evaluation

Krüger, Anne K.

Quantification 2.0? Bibliometric Infrastructures in Academic Evaluation

dc.contributor.author	Krüger, Anne K.
dc.date.accessioned	2024-08-27T09:12:04Z
dc.date.available	2024-08-27T09:12:04Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	Due to developments recently termed as ‘audit,’ ‘evaluation,’ or ‘metric society,’ universities have become subject to rat- ings and rankings and researchers are evaluated according to standardized quantitative indicators such as their publication output and their personal citation scores. Yet, this development is not only based on the rise of new public management and ideas on ‘the return on public or private investment.’ It has also profited from ongoing technological developments. Due to a massive increase in digital publishing corresponding with the growing availability of related data bibliometric infrastructures for evaluating science are continuously becoming more differentiated and elaborate. They allow for new ways of using bibliometric data through various easily applicable tools. Furthermore, they also produce new quantities of data due to new possibilities in following the digital traces of scientific publications. In this article, I discuss this develop- ment as quantification 2.0. The rise of digital infrastructures for publishing, indexing, and managing scientific publications has not only made bibliometric data become a valuable source for performance assessment. It has triggered an unprece- dented growth in bibliometric data production turning freely accessible data about scientific work into edited databases and producing competition for its users. The production of bibliometric data has thus become decoupled from their appli- cation. Bibliometric data have turned into a self-serving end while their providers are constantly seeking for new tools to make use of them.
dc.identifier.citation	Krüger, A. K. (2020). Quantification 2.0? Bibliometric Infrastructures in Academic Evaluation. Politics and Governance, 8(2), 58–67. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i2.2575
dc.identifier.doi	10.17645/pag.v8i2.2575
dc.identifier.issn	issn:2183-2463
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/728
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.rights	open access
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.subject	bibliometrics
dc.subject	big data
dc.subject	digital infrastructures
dc.subject	higher education
dc.subject	quantification
dc.title	Quantification 2.0? Bibliometric Infrastructures in Academic Evaluation
dc.type	Article
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
dcmi.type	Text
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url	https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i2.2575
local.researchgroup	Reorganisation von Wissenspraktiken
local.researchtopic	Organisation von Wissen