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Banking (on) different forms of symbolic capital

Author(s) -

Cronin Blaise,

Shaw Debora

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

journal of the american society for information science and technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1532-2890

pISSN - 1532-2882

DOI - 10.1002/asi.10140

Subject(s) - symbolic capital , capital (architecture) , public domain , the symbolic , citation , sociology , accrual , political science , social science , accounting , economics , psychology , history , law , archaeology , earnings , psychoanalysis

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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