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Die Macht der Wissenschaftsstatistik und die Entwicklung der Ökonomie

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  • Matthias Aistleitner
  • Marianne Fölker
  • Jakob Kapeller
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Citation metrics has become an important tool in the assessment of scientific research. Journal rankings and productivity indices are thereby understood as signifying reputation and impact within a scientific community, which is interpreted as a proxy for the quality of research. In this respect, the introduction of citation metrics for research assessment is part of a larger social trend to simplify complex issues by means of numerical expressions. Against this backdrop, this paper takes a look at the effects of the introduction of evaluative scientometrics within the field of economics. It is shown that the “power of citation metrics” has manifold consequences: the instruments of citation metrics not only reinforce conventional patterns of academic reproduction and attention in scientific discourse, but also influence the behavior of single agents as well as the paradigmatic developments of academic disciplines. / Zitationsmessungen und darauf basierende Indices und Ranglisten spielen eine immer wesentlichere Rolle im Wissenschaftsbetrieb, insbesondere im Rahmen der Bewertung und Evaluierung von Forschungsleistungen. Die Etablierung quantitativer Evaluationsroutinen im Wissenschaftsbetrieb steht dabei symptomatisch für einen umfassenderen sozialen Trend, komplexe Sachverhalte durch ihre numerische Fassung scheinbar oder tatsächlich zu vereinfachen. In diesem Kontext versucht dieser Beitrag, die Auswirkungen wissenschaftsstatistischer Evaluationsverfahren auf die weitere Wissenschaftsentwicklung zu analysieren und dabei insbesondere das Beispiel der ökonomischen Disziplin in den Blick zu nehmen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Macht der (evaluativen) Wissenschaftsstatistik vielfältige Auswirkungen hervorbringt: So werden akademische Reproduktionslogiken, das Verhalten einzelner AkteurInnen im Wissenschaftsbetrieb sowie die paradigmatische Entwicklung von Disziplinen durch wissenschaftsstatistische Verfahren beeinflusst.

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  • Matthias Aistleitner & Marianne Fölker & Jakob Kapeller, 2015. "Die Macht der Wissenschaftsstatistik und die Entwicklung der Ökonomie," Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science Studies / Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, vol. 135(2), pages 111-132.
    • Handle: RePEc:dah:aeqsjb:v135_y2015_i2_q2_p111-132
    DOI: 10.3790/schm.135.2.111
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    1. Claudius Gräbner, 2017. "The Complexity of Economies and Pluralism in Economics," Journal of Contextual Economics (JCE) – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, vol. 137(3), pages 193-225.

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    • B10 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - General
    • B50 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - General
    • N01 - Economic History - - General - - - Development of the Discipline: Historiographical; Sources and Methods

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