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Research metrics shape academic careers, influence funding priorities, and quietly drive inequities across disciplines. Many researchers and subject specialists encounter these systems as neutral or inevitable. In this session, a subject librarian and a scholarly communication librarian examine two intertwined critiques of metric culture. Together, the presenters highlight how deeply metrics structure academic life and discuss ways that scholarly communication librarians can help faculty and subject specialists recognize and resist the ways in which metrics have become the built-in logic of academic institutions with unintended consequences - shaping what research is produced, circulated, and valued.
Research Impact & Open Scholarship Librarian, Indiana University
Hi! In my work I manage open scholarship resources at IU Bloomington Libraries and provide publication data and data analysis to library administration, as well as colleges and departments, for institutional decision-making. I am committed to advancing inclusion and belonging in my... Read More →
