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This module will introduce basic techniques in bibliometrics, such as citation analysis, citation impact factors, and bibliometric networks. You will consider the application of these kinds of methods for analysis of research quantity and quality.  In addition to learning bibliographic methods, you will consider the limits of this form of analysis. Specifically you will confront and question the “publish or perish” model of academic knowledge production which places significant value on a single kind of scholarly output, and even more value on the percieved circulation of that output. Of course, you will not perish, if you do not publish. There is more to life than academic publishing.

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