When the system of scholarly communications was dependent on the physical movement of information goods, we did business in an era of information scarcity. As we become dependent on the digital movement of information goods, we find ourselves entering an era of information abundance. In the process, we are witnessing a radical shift in how we establish authority, significance, and even scholarly validity. That has major implications for, in particular, the humanities and social
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Jensen, M. (2015). The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority. In B. Cronin & C. R. Sugimoto (Eds.), Scholarly Metrics Under the Microscope: From Citation Analysis to Academic Auditing (pp. 111–120). Information Today.
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