Humanities, Citations and Currency: Hierarchies of Value and Enabled Recolonisation

Keyan G. Tomaselli

doi:10.1080/02560046.2019.1690534

Humanities, Citations and Currency: Hierarchies of Value and Enabled Recolonisation

Keyan G. Tomaselli

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Abstract

A comparative analysis examines the relevance of journal measurement indices for the humanities and the sciences. The analysis explains how different measurements work, what they measure and their impact on the integrity of research, paradigm change and citation levels. The increasing use by university auditors of impact factors as performance management and research output indicators is critically examined with regard to implications for the humanities. The effect of this neoliberal approach on African-based academic developments is examined, as are the intellectually re-colonising effects of such systems.

Original language	English
Journal	Critical Arts
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2019.1690534
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2020

Keywords

Department of Higher Education and Training incentive
Impact factors
South Africa
citation
metrics
publishing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Cultural Studies
Communication
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

UN SDGs

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