Beyond Bibliometrics

<b>A comprehensive state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact. </b><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><b>Contributors</b><br>Mayur Amin Judit Bar-Ilan Johann Bauer Lutz Bornmann Benjamin F. Bowman Kevin W. Boyack Blaise Cronin Ronald Day Nicola De Bellis Jonathan Furner Yves Gingras Stefanie Haustein Edwin Henneken Peter A. Hook Judith Kamalski Richard Klavans Kayvan Kousha Michael Kurtz Mark Largent Julia Lane Vincent Larivière Loet Leydesdorff Werner Marx Katherine W. McCain Margit Palzenberger Andrew Plume Jason Priem Rebecca Rosen Hermann Schier Hadas Shema Cassidy R. Sugimoto Mike Thelwall Daril Vilhena Jevin West Paul Wouters</p>