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Evaluating Scholarship and Research Impact : History, Practices, and Policy Development.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alstete, Jeffrey W., author.
- Series:
- Great debates in higher education
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Learning and scholarship.
- Research.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Emerald Publishing : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Evaluating Scholarship and Research Impact; Contents; About the Authors; Preface; Chapter 1 A Primer on Policy and Research; Forms of Research and Measures; Disruptive Technology and Other Forces Affecting Research Policies; Organization of the Monograph; Chapter 2 History and Evolution of Scholarly Metrics and Impact Factors; Origin of Measuring Scholarship; Timeline of Measuring Scholarship; Scholarly Metric Usage Grows and Raises Concerns; Changing Nature of Academic Publishing; Chapter 3 Concerns and Problems; Inaccuracies; Calls for Accountability as a Pathology.
- Chapter 4 Benefits and Possibilities for Research Policy ImprovementsImpact is Perceived as an Indirect Measure of Quality; Journal Impact Factors Can Be Useful; Informed Research Funding Decisions and Recognition; Using Scholarly Metrics in Policy Creation and Implementation; Chapter 5 Conclusion; Appendix: San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment; Putting Science into the Assessment of Research; References; Author Index; Subject Index.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 20, 2018).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Alstete, Jeffrey W. Evaluating Scholarship and Research Impact.
- ISBN:
- 9781787563872
- 1787563871
- Publisher Number:
- 99977447202
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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