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London School of Economics / Portia Roelofs and Max Gallien
/ Sep 25“Initially spurred by the desire for professors to reach out and engage with the world outside the ‘ivory tower,’ the impact of academic articles came to be measured by blogs, page views, download stats, and tweets. Academic articles are now evaluated according to essentially the same metrics as BuzzFeed posts or Instagram selfies. In fact, the impact factor is an especially blunt example of online metrics: Reddit, Youtube, and Imgur at least allow users to up-vote or down-vote posts.” —
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