Title: Measuring Scholarly Impact
Description: This book is an authoritative handbook of current topics, technologies and methodological approaches that may be used for the study of scholarly impact. The included methods cover a range of fields such as statistical sciences, scientific visualization, network analysis, text mining, and information retrieval. The techniques and tools enable researchers to investigate metric phenomena and to assess scholarly impact in new ways. Each chapter offers an introduction to the selected topic and outlines how the topic, technology or methodological approach may be applied to metrics-related research. Comprehensive and up-to-date, Measuring Scholarly Impact: Methods and Practice is designed for researchers and scholars interested in informetrics, scientometrics, and text mining. The hands-on perspective is also beneficial to advanced-level students in fields from computer science and statistics to information science.
Subjects: College teachers, Teachers, rating of, Universities and colleges, faculty, Scholarly publishing, Visualization, Information retrieval, Information organization, Computer science, Data mining, Information storage and retrieval systems, Electronic data processing, Statistics, Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Computing Methodologies