Metriche citazionali e mutazioni strategiche della ricerca scientifica: narrative ed evidenze

Guerra, Luca Metriche citazionali e mutazioni strategiche della ricerca scientifica: narrative ed evidenze., 2023 [Preprint]

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English abstract

Following the diffusion of the management model promoted by the New Public Management also within universities, sectors until then endowed with particular protection, such as the academic one, were progressively subjected to new controls and constraints, which gradually took the form of quantitative surveys, with a growing role of citation metrics. These evaluation processes have given rise to various important critical positions at an international level. If it is true that, according to Goodhart's law, "when a measure becomes an objective it ceases to be a good measure”, it is even more significant to note that when a measure becomes an objective, what is measured ceases to be what it was before. The quantitative measurement of academic performance has in fact triggered forms of gaming such as to alter the very game of scientific research, its purposes and the forms of its sharing. In the article we will carry out a comparison between the forms of mutation and the narratives that accompany them to see to what extent we are legitimate today to talk about the transformation of scientific research into strategic scientific research.

Italian abstract

A seguito della diffusione anche all’interno delle università del modello gestionale promosso dal New public management, settori fino ad allora dotati di una particolare protezione, come quello accademico, si sono progressivamente visti sottoposti a nuovi controlli e vincoli, che hanno progressivamente assunto la forma di rilevazioni quantitative, con un ruolo crescente delle metriche citazionali. Questi processi di valutazione hanno suscitato diverse e importanti prese di posizione critiche sul piano internazionale. Se è vero che, secondo la “legge” di Goodhart “quando una misura diviene un obiettivo smette di essere una buona misura, ancora più significativo è rilevare che quando una misura diviene un obiettivo, il misurato smette di essere quello che era prima. La misurazione quantitativa delle performance accademiche ha innescato infatti forme di gaming tali da alterare il gioco stesso della ricerca scientifica, dei suoi scopi e delle forme della sua condivisione. Nell’articolo svolgeremo un confronto tra le forme della mutazione e le narrative che le accompagnano per vedere fino a quale punto siamo legittimati oggi a parlare della trasformazione della ricerca scientifica in ricerca scientifica strategica.

Item type: Preprint
Keywords: scholarly communication; gaming metrics; ricerca scientifica; scientific research; metriche citazionali; bibliometria; bibliometrics; dora; leida; leiden, research assesment; valutazione della ricerca; retraction
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BA. Use and impact of information.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BJ. Communication
B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
F. Management. > FF. Funding.
Depositing user: Phd Luca Guerra
Date deposited: 16 Jan 2024 08:20
Last modified: 16 Jan 2024 08:20
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/45316

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