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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9780231197816 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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379.41 |
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PAR |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Pardo-Guerra, Juan Pablo |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Quantified scholar : how research evaluations transformed the British social sciences |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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Columbia University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2022 |
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New York : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xi, 258 p. ; |
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ill., |
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22 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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2850.00 |
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INR |
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01 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Since 1986, the British government, faced with dwindling budgets and growing calls for public accountability, has sought to assess the value of scholarly work in the nation's universities. Administrators have periodically evaluated the research of most full-time academics employed in British universities, seeking to distribute increasingly scarce funding to those who use it best. How do such attempts to quantify the worth of knowledge change the nature of scholarship? Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra examines the effects of quantitative research evaluations on British social scientists, arguing that the mission to measure academic excellence resulted in less diversity and more disciplinary conformity. Combining interviews and original computational analyses, The Quantified Scholar provides a compelling account of how scores, metrics, and standardized research evaluations altered the incentives of scientists and administrators by rewarding forms of scholarship that were closer to established disciplinary canons. In doing so, research evaluations amplified publication hierarchies and long-standing forms of academic prestige to the detriment of diversity. Slowly but surely, they reshaped academic departments, the interests of scholars, the organization of disciplines, and the employment conditions of researchers. Critiquing the effects of quantification on the workplace, this book also presents alternatives to existing forms of evaluation, calling for new forms of vocational solidarity that can challenge entrenched inequality in academia. |
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Educational evaluation |
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Great Britain |
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Academic mobality |
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Bibliometrics |
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Eigenvector centrality |
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H-index |
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higher education |
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Latent Dirichlet Allocation |
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Mathew Effect |
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Max Weber |
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Move institutions |
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Reseach Assesment Exercise |
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Research evaluations |
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Scientometrics |
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Text classification |
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Topic models |
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United Kingdom |
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Books |