Web Indicators for Research Evaluation : A Practical Guide / by Michael Thelwall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thelwall, Michael., Author.

Series:

Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, 1947-9468

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer networks.

Computer Communication Networks.

Local Subjects:

Computer Communication Networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 155 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.

Summary:

In recent years there has been an increasing demand for research evaluation within universities and other research-based organisations. In parallel, there has been an increasing recognition that traditional citation-based indicators are not able to reflect the societal impacts of research and are slow to appear. This has led to the creation of new indicators for different types of research impact as well as timelier indicators, mainly derived from the Web. These indicators have been called altmetrics, webometrics or just web metrics. This book describes and evaluates a range of web indicators for aspects of societal or scholarly impact, discusses the theory and practice of using and evaluating web indicators for research assessment and outlines practical strategies for obtaining many web indicators. In addition to describing impact indicators for traditional scholarly outputs, such as journal articles and monographs, it also covers indicators for videos, datasets, software and other non-standard scholarly outputs. The book describes strategies to analyse web indicators for individual publications as well as to compare the impacts of groups of publications. The practical part of the book includes descriptions of how to use the free software Webometric Analyst to gather and analyse web data. This book is written for information science undergraduate and Master’s students that are learning about alternative indicators or scientometrics as well as Ph.D. students and other researchers and practitioners using indicators to help assess research impact or to study scholarly communication.

Contents:

Introduction

Evaluating Indicators

Usage, Popularity and Attention Indicators

Academic, Commercial and Organizational Web Indicators

Educational Impact Indicators

Medical Impact Indicators

Applications

Collecting Data for Sets of Documents

Indicator Formulae and Experimental Considerations

Calculating Indicators with Webometric Analyst

Conclusions

Bibliography

Author Biography.

ISBN:

9783031023040

3031023048