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2019-06-01Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.18452/24672
Evaluations as value-measurement links: Exploring metrics and meanings in science
dc.contributor.authorHesselmann, Felicitas
dc.contributor.authorSchendzielorz, Cornelia
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-18T09:09:58Z
dc.date.available2022-05-18T09:09:58Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-01none
dc.date.updated2020-07-05T02:53:40Z
dc.identifier.issn0539-0184
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/25340
dc.description.abstractThis contribution seeks to provide a more detailed insight into the entanglement of value and measurement. Drawing on insights from semiotics and a Bourdieusian perspective on language as an economy of linguistic exchange, we develop the theoretical concept of value-measurement links and distinguish three processes – operationalisation, nomination, and indetermination – as forms in which these links can be constructed. We illustrate these three processes using (e)valuation practices in science, particularly the journal impact factor, as an empirical object of investigation. As this example illustrates, measured values can function as building blocks for further measurements, and thus establish chains of evaluations, where it becomes more and more obscure which values the measurements actually express. We conclude that in the case of measured values such as impact factors, these chains are driven by the interplay between the interpretative openness of language and the seeming tendency of numbers to fixate meaning thus continually re-creating, transforming and modifying values.eng
dc.description.sponsorshipBundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
dc.rights(CC BY-NC 4.0) Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalger
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectBourdieueng
dc.subjectevaluationeng
dc.subjectjournal impact factoreng
dc.subjectmeasurementeng
dc.subjectquantificationeng
dc.subjectsemioticseng
dc.subjectvalueeng
dc.subject.ddc300 Sozialwissenschaftennone
dc.titleEvaluations as value-measurement links: Exploring metrics and meanings in sciencenone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/25340-7
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18452/24672
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.pages19none
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone
dc.identifier.eissn1461-7412
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1177/0539018419850771none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleSocial Science Informationnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume58none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue2none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameSAGE Publicationsnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceLondon, Englandnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart282none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend300none
bua.departmentKultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultätnone

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