The Organization of Science Affects Knowledge
Channel: The Annex Sociology Podcast
Date: 2022-11-15

Our discussion will feature the new book, The Quantified Scholar by J.P. Pardo-Guerra (2022, Columbia University Press).  This book examines modern British efforts to improve research through the development of quantitative metrics and metric-related incentive systems, and how this scheme altered the behavior of scientists and academic departments.  The study stands as one example of modern sociology’s efforts to understand how the organization and incentivization of scientists affect the character of how scientists do their work and what kind of information gets produced.