Abstract

We argue that the stakes of scholarly communication are changing as a result of technology-enabled ability to self-track and the enhanced provision and proliferation of instant metrics. These developments accentuate the role of the individual, and conversely underplay the collective effort, in the advancement of knowledge by focusing attention on metrics centered on the individual, professional performance, and communication directed at oneself. We suggest – in line with previous research – that metrics play an increasingly important role in configuring the scholarly communication system. But we also stress, unlike previous research, that metrics are embedded in larger communication contexts, or systems, that are already codified and ordered. Hence the discursive value ascribed to metrics must take into account these contexts. This has at least two benefits. One, we do not reduce scholarly communication to an issue of metrics and rewards, like scientometric studies and contemporary notions of the so-called quantified academic self, and two, a communication framework allows us to see new sorts of conversations going on and new modes of togetherness enabled alongside the digital nurturing of metric regimes.

摘要

我们认为，由于技术支持的自我跟踪能力以及即时指标的增强提供和扩散，学术交流的风险正在改变。这些发展通过将注意力集中在以个人为中心的指标，专业表现和针对自己的沟通上，从而在知识的发展中强调了个人的作用，而相反地低估了集体的努力。根据先前的研究，我们建议指标在配置学术交流系统中起越来越重要的作用。但是，与以前的研究不同，我们还强调，度量标准已嵌入到已被整理和排序的较大的通信环境或系统中。因此，归因于指标的话语价值必须考虑这些上下文。这至少有两个好处。首先，我们不会将学术交流减少为度量和奖励问题，例如科学计量研究和所谓的量化学术自我的当代概念；其二，交流框架可以使我们看到正在进行的新类型的对话和新模式统一性的实现与公制制度的数字培育一起实现。