An emerging economy of publications and citations

摘要: The Humboltian image of an independent academic is challenged by the recent developments in governance universities. Digital technology has produced new tools for surveillance and steering researchers’ work. Researchers become actors economy based on disembedded symbolic tokens publications citations. Incentives are produced, which make researchers subservient to system. Bibliometrics offers technology, used. general idea its worldly application, forming rules what supposed count as knowledge, i.e. a priviledged form knowledge society generally. Educational research this essay used example, where some possible implications projected.