“Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain”: Faculty Productivity and Citation Products

Measurement and reporting of faculty productivity is a topic receiving increasing attention in higher education. Catherine Smith discusses content, behavior, perceptions and misconceptions around two commonly used citation databases,Web of Knowledge ™ and Google Scholar, and compares them to Academic Analytics. The talk covers what these tools do and cannot do and invite conversation about what it means in the context of Science and Technology Studies.