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Normative versus strategic accounts of acknowledgment data: the case of the top-five journals of economics
Alberto Baccini, Eugenio Petrovich
Two alternative accounts can be given of the information contained in the acknowledgments of academic publications. According to the mainstream normative account, the acknowledgmen…
Bibliometrics in Press. Representations and Uses of Bibliometric Indicators in the Italian Daily Newspapers
Eugenio Petrovich
Scholars in science and technology studies and bibliometricians are increasingly revealing the performative nature of bibliometric indicators. Far from being neutral technical meas…
Citation gaming induced by bibliometric evaluation: a country-level comparative analysis
Alberto Baccini, Giuseppe De Nicolao, Eugenio Petrovich
It is several years since national research evaluation systems around the globe started making use of quantitative indicators to measure the performance of researchers. Nevertheles…
Accumulation of Knowledge in Para-Scientific Areas. The Case of Analytic Philosophy
Eugenio Petrovich
This study analyzes how the accumulation of knowledge takes place in para-scientific areas, focusing on the case of Analytic Philosophy. The theoretical framework chosen for the an…