Review of "Scholarly metrics"

Universality of scholarly impact metrics

We present a method to quantify the disciplinary bias of any scholarly impact metric, and introduce a simple universal metric that allows to compare the impact of scholars across scientific disciplines. Objective evaluation of scientific production — its quantity, quality, and impact — is quickly becoming one of the central challenges of science policy with the proliferation of academic publica...

Scholarly Metrics Baseline: A Survey of Faculty Knowledge, Use, and Opinion about Scholarly Metrics

Assessing Scholarly Influence: Proposing New Metrics

This study examines the use of the Hirsch family of indices to assess the scholarly influence of IS researchers. It finds that while the top tier journals are important indications of a scholar’s impact, they are neither the only nor indeed the most important sources of scholarly influence. In effect other ranking studies, by narrowly bounding the venues included in those studies, effectively p...

MESUR: A Survey of Usage-based Scholarly Impact Metrics

Scholarly communication and bibliometrics: I. Scholarly communication model Literature Review

This article represents a literature review that has two parts. Her is talking about the first part: scholarly communication model. In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest both in scholarly communication as a research area and in the application of bibliometrics as a research method. This article is a compilation of scholarly communication models at the intersection of scholarly...