La "religione della valutazione", tra oligopoli editoriali e "pubblicità del sapere"
Journal title HISTORIA MAGISTRA
Author/s Isabella Gagliardi
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2012/9
Language Italian Pages 7 P. 94-100 File size 112 KB
DOI 10.3280/HM2012-009009
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The paper analyzes the relationship between the economic interests and the scientific research using as intepretative key the genesis and the aims of the evaluation systems used in scholarly fields. It gives a particular attention to bibliometric indices - such as the hindex and the journal impact factor - now used to judge the scientific nature of a paper, but which in reality were developed by publishing companies for directing the purchases by university libraries. Afterward it shows how the commercial nature of the indices provokes distortions of the research, depriving it of its freedom and reducing its potential innovation. Finally the paper indicates the clever use of the semantic web (institutional repositories in open access) as a possible way out of this "impasse".
Keywords: Research evaluation; bibliometric indices; economic interests; oligopoly; repositories; open access.
Isabella Gagliardi, La "religione della valutazione", tra oligopoli editoriali e "pubblicità del sapere" in "HISTORIA MAGISTRA" 9/2012, pp 94-100, DOI: 10.3280/HM2012-009009