Quantified academic selves: The gamification of research through social networking services

Information Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Hammarfelt, Björn ^a   De Rijcke, Sarah ^b   Rushforth, Alexander D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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