Beyond bibliometrics : harnessing multidimensional indicators of scholarly impact / edited by Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cronin, Blaise (Editor)
Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Bibliometrics.
Bibliographical citations > Evaluation.
Scholarly publishing > Evaluation.
Scholarly electronic publishing > Evaluation.
Scientific literature > Evaluation.
Research > Evaluation > Statistical methods.
Communication in learning and scholarship > Technological innovations.
Physical Description:viii, 466 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Scholars and scripts, spoors and scores / Blaise Cronin
  • History and evolution of (biblio)metrics / Nicola De Bellis
  • The citation : from culture to infrastructure / Paul Wouters
  • The data it is me! / Ronald E. Day
  • The ethics of evaluative bibliometrics / Jonathan Furner
  • Criteria for evaluating indicators / Yves Gingras
  • Obliteration by incorporation / Katherine W. McCain
  • A network approach to scholarly evaluation / Jevin D. West and Daril A. Vilhena
  • Science visualization and discursive knowledge / Loet Leydesdorff
  • Measuring interdisciplinarity / Vincent Larivière and Yves Gingras
  • Bibliometric standards for evaluating research institutes in the natural sciences / Lutz Bornmann, Benjamin E. Bowman, Jonathan Bauer, Werner Marx, Hermann Schier and Margit Palzenberger
  • Identifying and quantifying research strengths using market segmentation / Kevin W. Boyack and Richard Klavans
  • Finding and recommending scholarly articles / Michael J. Kurtz and Edwin A. Henneken
  • Altmetrics / Jason Priem
  • Web impact measures for research assessment / Kayvan Kousha and Mike Thelwall
  • Bibliographic references in Web 2.0 / Judit Bar-Illan, Hadas Shema and Mike Thelwall
  • Readership metrics / Stefanie Haustein
  • Evaluating the work of judges / Peter Hook
  • Academic genealogy / Cassidy R. Sugimoto
  • A publishing perspective on bibliometrics / Judith Kamalski, Andrew Plume and Mayur Amin
  • Science metrics and science policy / Julia Lane, Mark Largent and Rebecca Rosen.