The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra examines the effects of quantitative research evaluations on British social scientists, arguing that the mission to measure academic excellence resulted in less diversity and more disciplinary conformity. He provides a compelling account of how quantification altered the incentives of scholars and administrators. Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets (2019).