Typically framed and heralded as a means of measuring/monitoring faculty productivity, metrics often do much more, including contouring the scope of scholarship writ large. “To measure up” has consequences for faculty and fields of study. Professor Pardo-Guerra (University of California, San Diego) describes how and why in his forthcoming book, The Quantified Scholar (Columbia University Press, 2022). You can listen/watch to his presentation in a forum hosted by Professor Zach Kaiser with Professor Ruben Martinez and Professor Emeritus Frank Fear serving as discussants.
