Brief communication: banking (on) different forms of symbolic capital

Authors:
Blaise Cronin;Debora Shaw
Affiliations:
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN;School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Venue:
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Year:
2002

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Abstract

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.