SCHOLARLY DESIGN?

Scholarly influence

We introduce a new class of measures of scholarly influence, which we term step-based indices. This class includes the prominent h-index, the publication count, and the i10-index. We show that the class of step-based indices is characterized by two axioms, consistency with worse scientists and consistency with better scientists. We also introduce a new index, the junior/senior-index, which is a...

Scholarly Communication

The chapter tackles the role of scholarly publication in the research process (quality, preservation) and looks at the consequences of new information technologies in the organization of the scholarly communication ecology. It will then show how new technologies have had an impact on the scholarly communication process and made it depart from the traditional publishing environment. Developments...

Scholarly Societies and Scholarly Communication: A Look Ahead

Roger C. Schonfeld is Director, Library and Scholarly Communication Program at Ithaka S+R; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2015 Roger C. Schonfeld, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. In many academic and professional fields, the society-sponsored journal has for a century had a unique position in scholarly discourse. An annual meeting and ...

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...

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