Evaluation Game - How Publication Metrics Shape Scholarly Communication

"This text provides a detailed introduction to the origin and development of publication metrics used to measure academic productivity across the world, and the effect they have upon the quality and diversity of scientific research"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Evaluation as power; 2. Economization and metricization; 3. Untold histories of research evaluation; 4. The diversity of evaluative powers; 5. Players and the stakes; 6. Playing the evaluation game; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Index.

About the author

Emanuel Kulczycki is Associate Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, and Head of the Scholarly Communication Research Group. From 2018 to 2020, he was the chair of the European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, and in 2019 he co-founded the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication. He has been a policy advisor for the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland since 2013. He co-edited the Handbook on Research Assessment in the Social Sciences (2022, Edward Elgar Publishing).

Product details

• Authors: Emanuel Kulczycki, Emanuel (Adam Mickiewicz University Kulczycki
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781009351188
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0935118-8
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Astronomy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Science: general issues, Knowledge Management, SCIENCE / Research & Methodology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Knowledge Capital, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Scientific research, Science Funding & Policy, Science funding and policy, Research methods: general, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents