Angermuller, Johannes and van Leeuwen, Thed
(2018).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97370-8_4 |
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Abstract
Scientometrics is a type of corpus research which measures the scientific output of academic researchers and analyses underlying differences and inequalities among researchers based on their scientific outputs. This contribution discusses the history of the field since Eugene Garfield launched the Science Citation Index in 1963 and investigates its practices and indicators, such as the Journal Impact Factor or the h-index. This contribution places the development of the field in the context of the rise of ‘numerocracy’—a regime of power-knowledge which aims at governing large populations by numbers. By applying and extending Michel Foucault’s governmentality thesis, the authors point out the non-scientific conditions of scientific practices in corpus research and make the case for a socially reflexive approach.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| ISBN: | 3-319-97370-3, 978-3-319-97370-8 |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics > Languages Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) |
| Item ID: | 62202 |
| Depositing User: | ORO Import |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2019 08:22 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jun 2019 08:37 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/62202 |
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