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Beyond bibliometrics: harnessing multidimensional indicators of scholarly impact

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge The MIT Press 2014Description: viii, 466 pISBN:
  • 9780262525510
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 010.727 B3
Summary: Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available tools and data that can reveal patterns of intellectual activity and impact that were previously invisible: mentions, acknowledgments, endorsements, downloads, recommendations, blog posts, tweets. This book describes recent theoretical and practical advances in metrics-based research, examining a variety of alternative metrics—or “altmetrics”—while also considering the ethical and cultural consequences of relying on metrics to assess the quality of scholarship. Once the domain of information scientists and mathematicians, bibliometrics is now a fast-growing, multidisciplinary field that ranges from webometrics to scientometrics to influmetrics. The contributors to Beyond Bibliometrics discuss the changing environment of scholarly publishing, the effects of open access and Web 2.0 on genres of discourse, novel analytic methods, and the emergence of next-generation metrics in a performance-conscious age. (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/beyond-bibliometrics)
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Table of Contents:

I HISTORY

01. Scholars and scripts, spoors and scores / Blaise Cronin
02. History and evolution of (biblio)metrics / Nicola De Bellis

II CRITIQUES

03. The citation : from culture to infrastructure / Paul Wouters
04. "The data - it is me!" = (Les données - c'est moi!) / Ronald E. Day
05. The ethics of evaluative bibliometrics / Jonathan Furner
06. Criteria for evaluating indicators / Yves Gingras

III METHODS AND TOOLS

07. Obliteration by incorporation / Katherine W. McCain
08. A network approach to scholarly evaluation / Jevin D. West and Daril A. Vilhena
09. Science visualization and discursive knowledge / Loet Leydesdorff
10. Measuring interdisciplinarity / Vincent Larivière and Yves Gingras
11. Bibliometric standards for evaluating research institutes in the natural sciences / Lutz Bornmann, Benjamin E. Bowman, Jonathan Bauer, Werner Marx, Hermann Schier, and Margit Palzenberger
12. Identifying and quantifying research strengths using market segmentation / Kevin W. Boyack and Richard Klavans
13. Finding and recommending scholarly articles / Michael J. Kurtz and Edwin A. Henneken

IV ALTERNATIVE METRICS

14. Altmetrics / Jason Priem
15. Web impact metrics for research assessment / Kayvan Kousha and Mike Thelwall
16. Bibliographic references in Web 2.0 / Judit Bar-Ilan, Hadas Shema, and Mike Thelwall
17. Readership metrics / Stefanie Haustein
18. Evaluating the work of judges / Peter A. Hook
19. Academic genealogy / Cassidy R. Sugimoto

V PERSPECTIVES

20. A publishing perspective on bibliometrics / Judith Kamalski, Andrew Plume, and Mayur Amin
21. Science metrics and science policy / Julia Lane, Mark Largent, and Rebecca Rosen

Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available tools and data that can reveal patterns of intellectual activity and impact that were previously invisible: mentions, acknowledgments, endorsements, downloads, recommendations, blog posts, tweets. This book describes recent theoretical and practical advances in metrics-based research, examining a variety of alternative metrics—or “altmetrics”—while also considering the ethical and cultural consequences of relying on metrics to assess the quality of scholarship.

Once the domain of information scientists and mathematicians, bibliometrics is now a fast-growing, multidisciplinary field that ranges from webometrics to scientometrics to influmetrics. The contributors to Beyond Bibliometrics discuss the changing environment of scholarly publishing, the effects of open access and Web 2.0 on genres of discourse, novel analytic methods, and the emergence of next-generation metrics in a performance-conscious age.


(https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/beyond-bibliometrics)

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