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Banking (on) different forms of symbolic capital

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  • Blaise Cronin
  • Debora Shaw

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The accrual of symbolic capital is an important aspect of academic life. Successful capital formation is commonly signified by the trappings of scholarly distinction or acknowledged status as a public intellectual. We consider and compare three potential indices of symbolic capital: citation counts, Web hits, and media mentions. Our findings, which are domain specific, suggest that public intellectuals are notable by their absence within the information studies community.

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  • Blaise Cronin & Debora Shaw, 2002. "Banking (on) different forms of symbolic capital," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 53(14), pages 1267-1270, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:53:y:2002:i:14:p:1267-1270
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.10140
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    1. Kortelainen, Terttu & Katvala, Mari, 2012. "“Everything is plentiful—Except attention”. Attention data of scientific journals on social web tools," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 6(4), pages 661-668.
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    3. David Wilkinson & Pardeep Sud & Mike Thelwall, 2014. "Substance without citation: evaluating the online impact of grey literature," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 98(2), pages 797-806, February.
    4. Erjia Yan & Ying Ding & Qinghua Zhu, 2010. "Mapping library and information science in China: a coauthorship network analysis," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 83(1), pages 115-131, April.
    5. Bar-Ilan, Judit, 2008. "Informetrics at the beginning of the 21st century—A review," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 2(1), pages 1-52.
    6. Brinja Meiseberg & Thomas Ehrmann & Jochen Lengers, 2016. "Quality kills the mediastar? Career paths of intellectuals," Journal of Business Economics, Springer, vol. 86(9), pages 1043-1066, December.

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