Banking (on) different forms of symbolic capital

Blaise Cronin and Debora Shaw

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002, vol. 53, issue 14, 1267-1270

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2002
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