Lost in Quantification: Scholars and the Politics of Bibliometrics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
As scholarship becomes increasingly globalized, bibliometric systems for quantifying research productivity have become increasingly relevant to academia. Bibliometric indicators are used to convert information about research activity (primarily publications and citations) into numbers that, in their apparent neutrality, seem to transcend linguistic and cultural (including disciplinary) boundaries. Developed as a way to study academic publication ...