Can research quality be measured quantitatively? On quality of scholarship, numerical research indicators and academic publishing - experiences from Norway

In this article I reflect on ways in which the neoliberal university and its administrative counterpart, new public management (NPM), affect academic publishing activity. One characteristic feature of NPM is the urge to use simple numerical indicators of research output as a tool to allocate fundin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michael Richard Handley Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Geographical Society of Finland 2017-12-01
Series:Fennia: International Journal of Geography
Online Access:https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/66602