id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
fennia-70469	Kallio, Kirsi Pauliina; Metzger, Jonathan	’Alternative’ journal publishing and the economy of academic prestige	2018	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1868	89	35	What perhaps particularly distinguishes the current moment is the wholesale capitalization of this economy of academic prestige, which has been facilitated through various forms of quantification that all contribute to translating the symbolic prestige of academic publishing into concrete cash-in-hand for individual academics (new positions, publication bonuses, etc.), universities (research evaluation frameworks, grants), and the whole billion-dollar global academic publishing industry dominated by a small number of for-profit enterprises, generally producing perverse profit margins. As noted by Fyfe and colleagues (2017) in a recent paper on the relationship between academic prestige and scientific publishing: “…[I]n Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scholarly reputation was still closely correlated with social standing.	cache/fennia-70469.pdf	txt/fennia-70469.txt