Sentence:  Performative regimes (see Power, 1997, 2004; Strathern, 2000) in many countries now judge the worth of an academic by the number of their publications, or through some <WSD>quasimeasure</WSD> of quality such as download data or citations for the paper. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An imprecise means of measuring something.