New PDF release: Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators

Bibliometrics has moved well past the mere monitoring of bibliographic citations. the net allows new how one can degree scholarly productiveness and influence, making to be had instruments and knowledge which may display styles of highbrow job and impression that have been formerly invisible: mentions, acknowledgments, endorsements, downloads, options, web publication posts, tweets. This publication describes contemporary theoretical and sensible advances in metrics-based learn, reading a number of substitute metrics -- or "altmetrics" -- whereas additionally contemplating the moral and cultural effects of hoping on metrics to evaluate the standard of scholarship. as soon as the area of data scientists and mathematicians, bibliometrics is now a fast-growing, multidisciplinary box that levels from webometrics to scientometrics to influmetrics. The participants to past Bibliometrics talk about the altering setting of scholarly publishing, the consequences of open entry and net 2.0 on genres of discourse, novel analytic equipment, and the emergence of next-generation metrics in a performance-conscious age. ContributorsMayur 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