Does bibliometric research confer legitimacy to research assessment practice? A sociological study of reputational control, 1972-2016

• Arlette Jappe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center of Science and Technology Studies (IZWT), University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

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• David Pithan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Sociology, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

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• Thomas Heinze

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: theinze@uni-wuppertal.de

  Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center of Science and Technology Studies (IZWT), University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany, Institute of Sociology, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4611-4591

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