The Transformation of the Scientific Paper: From Knowledge to Accounting Unit

Author: Gingras, Yves

Description: Since the mid-1990s, observers and actors in the scientific field—as defined in Bourdieu as a structured space of agents and institutions in competition for the accumulation of credit or “symbolic
capital”—have commented on the many facets of an ongoing major transformation in the structural conditions of scientific practice: massification of research, mounting pressure to publish, relative decline of government investments, and the arrival into the research system of the ideology of “knowledge management” with its insistence on quantitative evaluation measures of productivity and “impact” of academic research. (Book chapter)

Subject headings: Scientific research; Publishing; Knowledge management; Quantitative measures; Productivity; Impact

Publication year: 2020

Book title: Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pages: 43-56

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Serial number: 4002

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