Google Scholar – Platforming the scholarly economy

Goldenfein, J., & Griffin, D. S. (2022). Google Scholar – Platforming the scholarly economy. Internet Policy Review, 11(3). DOI: 10.14763/2022.3.1671.

Google Scholar has become an important player in the scholarly economy. It provides free tools for academic search and scholarly evaluation that have made it central to academic practice. By intermediating data flows between researchers, research managers, and repositories, its citation counting has become a unit of value coordinating the scholarly economy. At the same time, its user-friendly but opaque tools undermine academic autonomy and the academy’s capacity to understand how it evaluates itself.

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