The New Metrics: Practical Assessment of Research Impact

This guide consists of seven chapters on the use of metrics to assess the impact of research. Librarians and other researchers from the US present case studies on how a variety of research impact indicators are being used in specialized settings, particularly the physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. They describe the measurement of the scholarly output of the National Center for Atmospheric Research; metrics used by Michigan Publishing to assess the impact of monographs, journals, and other publications; a methodology to track and measure the impact of research conducted by the University of California Institute of Transportation Studies; bibliometric services used by the Environmental Protection Agency''s Library at Research Triangle Park; and the use of altmetrics for tracking attention to published research by museum staff and affiliated research associates at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. New methods in bibliometrics and alternative metrics provide us with information about research impact at both increasingly granular and global levels. Here, editor Elaine Lasda and a cast of expert contributors present a variety of case studies that demonstrate the practical utilization of these new scholarly metrics.

• | Author: Elaine M. Lasda
• | Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• | Publication Date: Sep 05, 2022
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781789732726
• | ISBN-10: 1789732727