Academic metrics mirror social media influence metrics
Evidence
An upshot of this hyper-competitive system is that job-seekers and those fortunate enough to find full-time employment internalize the “publish or perish” mentality. Moreover, to bolster their tenure files, scholars must demonstrate their productivity in eminently quantifiable ways. “Evidence of scholarly impact” may include a scholar’s citations, h-index, and journal acceptance rates—metrics not all that different from social media producers’ benchmarks for “influence”: blog reach, Twitter followers, and Instagram comments. Though such indexes have long helped to calibrate the career successes of academics, increasingly it is incumbent upon researchers to build these numbers “organically”—through their own social media activities. — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love, 619
Categorization
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
- XREF: connects to: Academic blogging shifted from collective politics to individual self-promotion — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love:…, 622; Social media metrics convert audience size into a comparable measure of personal status — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 245; Klout algorithmically quantified social media influence and status. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 252 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Social media metrics convert audience size into a comparable measure of personal status
#corroborates(0.90) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 245 - Klout algorithmically quantified social media influence and status.
#exemplifies(0.85) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 252 - Economists’ influence can be measured through media, political, and advisory coefficients
#exemplifies(0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 620 - Modern influencers descend from a lineage of influence research
#expands(0.75) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 19