The Quantified Scholar : : How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences / / Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra.

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 univers...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 15 b&w figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1 CHAINS OF KNOWLEDGE
  • 2 MEASURES OF AUSTERITY
  • 3 SORTED BY WORK
  • 4 SHIFTING WORDS
  • 5 HIERARCHIES OF QUANTIFICATION
  • 6 SOLIDARITIES
  • APPENDIX: STUDYING SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX