Artikel

Google Scholar: Platforming the scholarly economy

Google Scholar has become an important player in the scholarly economy. Whereas typical academic publishers sell bibliometrics, analytics and ranking products, Alphabet, through Google Scholar, provides "free" tools for academic search and scholarly evaluation that have made it central to academic practice. Leveraging political imperatives for open access publishing, Google Scholar has managed to intermediate data flows between researchers, research managers and repositories, and built its system of citation counting into a unit of value that coordinates the scholarly economy. At the same time, Google Scholar's user-friendly but opaque tools undermine certain academic norms, especially around academic autonomy and the academy's capacity to understand how it evaluates itself.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Internet Policy Review ; ISSN: 2197-6775 ; Volume: 11 ; Year: 2022 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 1-34 ; Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Klassifikation
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Thema
Digital platforms
Autonomy
Google
Bibliometrics
Platform economy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Goldenfein, Jake
Griffin, Daniel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2022

DOI
doi:10.14763/2022.3.1671
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Goldenfein, Jake
  • Griffin, Daniel
  • Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Entstanden

  • 2022

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