Index
The New Metrics: Practical Assessment of Research Impact
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Publication date: 19 August 2019
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(2019), "Index", Lasda, E.M. (Ed.) The New Metrics: Practical Assessment of Research Impact, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 141-151. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-269-620191008
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INDEX
Index
Academia
, 9, 39, 41, 145
Academic
disciplinary reputation/prestige
, 112
evaluation
, 39
institutions
, 127
journals
, 40–41
libraries
, 149
publications
, 48, 52
research institutions
, 128
Academic research impact measurement
, 39
ITS
, 47–48
scholarly metrics establishment
, 39–44
tracking and measuring impact for ITS
, 48–55
transportation
, 44–46
Accountability
, 8, 43–45, 48, 50, 150
Acquisitions unit
, 107
Adie, Euan
, 7
Administration
, 46, 50, 63, 86, 121
Administrators
, 9, 11, 46, 55, 116, 121, 124, 140, 145, 148–149
AFI (Altmetric for Institutions)
, 130–131, 133
Agencies, federal
, 59
AIRs
, 67–71, 73
Algorithms
, 72, 146
Alternative metrics (Altmetrics)
, 6–7, 16, 41, 63
application
, 30
articles
, 82
citation and altmetric data
, 141
institution view
, 131–136
JIFs
, 128
NHMLAC
, 129
researcher view
, 136–141
tools
, 11, 128–131, 140–141
value of
, 11, 31, 129
Altmerric.org
, 7
Altmetric Attention Score
, 7, 132, 134, 138
Altmetric badge
, 113
Altmetric Explorer
, 65, 130
for Publishers
, 113
tool
, 137
Altmetric manifesto
, 6
Altmetric.com
, 7
Altmetrics (see Alternative metrics)
American Chemical Society
, 80
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
, 44
Analytics
Clarivate
, 2, 15, 17, 20, 64
Google
, 116–117
Plum
, 7, 63
web
, 1, 112, 147
Anthropology
, 127, 139
Application Programing Interface (API)
, 20, 24–25, 31, 33–35, 67, 70, 72, 144
Applications
, 2–3, 6, 10, 20, 73, 114–115
altmetric
, 30, 129
grant
, 39
Approach, ethnographic
, 49, 53
Article Impact Reports (AIRs)
, 67–71, 73, 97–103
Article Influence calculations
, 3
Article Influence Score
, 3–4
Article level metrics
, 3, 130
Artifacts
, 127–128
arXiv
, 118
Assessment
, 43, 52, 60, 146
multimodal
, 45–46
portfolio
, 54
qualitative
, 139
research
, 44, 51, 53, 123
Association of University Presses community
, 122
Atmospheric modeling
, 19
Atmospheric sciences
, 19, 21
Author identifiers
, 144
Author level metrics
, 5, 63
Author profile tool
, 5
Authority
, 60, 62, 73, 115, 140
Automated filters
, 18
Automation
, 25
Awards
, 73, 107, 112
Becker Model
, 8
Benchmarking
, 26, 147
Best practices
, 120, 143, 148, 150
Bibliographic information
, 48, 129
Bibliometricians
, 5
Bibliometrics
, 1–3, 10, 15–17, 20, 26, 28, 47, 59, 62–68, 71, 114–115, 118, 144, 146
analysis
, 59, 64, 111, 114
data
, 48, 63–64
at EPA
, 62
evolving needs and assessing resources
, 64–65
indicators
, 41, 71, 148, 150
requests
, 62–63
Bibliometrics and REsearch Symposium
, 146
BKCI-SSH
, 109, 111
Blogs
, 6–7, 82, 128, 137
Book Citation Index–Humanities and Social Sciences (BKCI-SSH)
, 109
Books
, 3, 15, 48, 62, 106, 109, 111–113, 129
Bot filters
, 9
Bots
, 9, 140
Broader impacts
, 132
Brownfields program
, 60
Buschman, Michael
, 7
California Air Resources Board
, 47–48
California PATH
, 47
California State Legislature
, 10, 47
Caltrans
, 47–48, 51
Career, scholarly
, 6
Cartels, citation
, 9
Case studies
, 10–11, 18–31
Category, JCR
, 71, 80
Challenges
, 18, 66–70, 119, 122, 144–145
Chicken littles
, 146–147
Citation-based metrics (see Bibliometrics)
Citation(s)
, 4–7, 9, 19–20, 23, 29, 31, 41, 47, 52, 54, 66, 68, 109, 111, 130
and altmetric data
, 141
analysis
, 16, 128
count
, 1, 3–4, 6, 9, 17–18, 20, 23, 29–30, 63, 71, 109–111, 118, 128, 144–145, 150
data
, 2, 4, 40, 52, 63, 65, 72, 111, 147
databases
, 40, 129
frequency patterns
, 4
indexes
, 2, 3, 109, 144–145
information
, 129
metrics
, 9, 18
networks
, 4, 111
patent
, 65–66
rates
, 4, 49
tracking
, 42, 52–54
Cited half-life index
, 3
Cited publications
, 20, 24, 29, 31
CiteScore
, 4, 150
CiteULike
, 82
Clarivate Analytics
, 2, 15, 20, 27, 64
Clarivate
, 3, 34, 40
Clean Air Act (CAA)
, 60–62
Co-authorships
, 66
Collaborations
, 15–16, 23, 114, 122–123, 145
Collaborators
, 6, 16, 26, 48
Community
community-owned infrastructure
, 122
community-owned scholarly infrastructure
, 105
software and data products
, 28
Community, academic
, 7, 44
Compliance
, 108, 123
Deep Blue
, 118–119
journals
, 114–115
monographs
, 108–111
Computational Information Systems Laboratory (CISL)
, 19, 38
Computing, high performance
, 18–19, 21
Connected Corridors Program
, 47
Connotea
, 82
Context-sensitive approach/evaluation
, 50, 54
Contextualization
, 8, 36, 148
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE program)
, 60
CrossRef
, 20, 24, 54–55, 82, 123
Curating publication sets
, 34
Curriculum vitae
, 9
Cuyahoga river fire (1969)
, 59–60
Cyberinfrastructure
, 27, 143
Dashboards, metric
, 34, 113
Data
citation principles
, 146
collection
, 22, 25, 30–31, 34–35, 54, 150
entry
, 22, 130, 144
extraction
, 20, 67, 70
output formats
, 143
projects
, 29
providers
, 4, 20, 24, 33
sources
, 7, 17, 33–34, 68, 72, 109, 118, 150
visualizations
, 64, 66, 68
Data Citation Synthesis Group
, 146
“Data trust” framework
, 123
Databases
, 2, 16, 51
scientific
, 72
DataCite
, 123
Datasets
, 2, 29, 30, 106, 108, 131, 146
De-duplication
, 22
Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
, 9, 124, 147
Deep Blue
, 105, 107, 117
compliance
, 118–119
defiance
, 119–120
institutional repository
, 105, 108
Deep Blue Repository and Research Data Service
, 108
Deep Web
, 117
Defiance
, 108–109, 123
Deep Blue
, 119–120
journals
, 116–117
monographs
, 111–114
Deployment
, 53
Development effort
, 119
Digital Science
, 109
Dimensions
, 7–8, 109–110, 150
DimensionsPlus
, 109–111
Disciplines
, 143
academic
, 39
Discoverability
, 113, 145, 148
Discovery
, 16, 64, 118–119, 129, 140, 146
Dissemination
, 1, 6, 8, 10, 35, 144
Documentation
, 3–4, 50, 54, 66, 69–70, 128
Documents
, 22, 52, 62, 62
technical
, 53, 67
DOI (digital object identifier)
, 19–20, 22–24, 28–29, 51–52, 55, 65, 123, 131, 137, 144, 148
metadata
, 123
Domain
experts
, 16, 24, 26, 33, 149
specialized
, 26
Donations
, 131, 143
Donors
, 11, 128, 137
Donut, Altmetric
, 7
EarthCube
, 10, 27
EarthCube community metrics (EC community metrics) (see also Site visit team metrics (SVT metrics))
, 27
lessons learning
, 30–31
outcomes
, 28–30
EarthCube Science Support Office (ESSO)
, 27
Ebooks
, 112–113
EBSCO Information Services
, 7
Economic
benefit
, 8, 42
impacts
, 46
Editors
, 107, 114, 116–117, 144, 145
Egghe, Leo
, 5–6
Eigenfactor
, 3
Eigenfactor Score
, 3
Elsevier
, 3–4, 7
Elsevier Announces Scopus Book Expansion Program (2013)
, 109
Emerging research areas
, 145
Emerging Sources Citation Index
, 114
Employs transparent methods
, 114
Encyclopedia of Diderot and D’Alembert Collaborative Translation Project
, 108
Energy Star program
, 60
English Language Teaching (ELT)
, 107
Entomology
, 139
Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program (BenMAP)
, 73
EPA-RTP Library
, 59–63
eScholarship
, 50–51
eSenate Bill 1 (SB1)
, 47
Evaluation
, 1, 4–6, 52, 72
academic
, 39
expert
, 147
Evaluative process
, 9
Excel spreadsheets
, 63, 65
Extreme non-normal distributions
, 113
Facebook
, 82
Faculty
, 7, 41, 48, 114, 124
FAST Act
, 45, 47, 50
Federal Highways Administration (FHA)
, 45
Federal RePORTER
, 44
FHWA template
, 50–51
Field Weighted citation Impact (FWCI)
, 40
Fields
emerging
, 123, 144
scientific
, 26, 70
Filters
automated
, 18
bot
, 9
Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act)
, 45, 47
FORCE 11
, 146
Formats
, 6, 34, 41–42, 52
new publication
, 6
Fostering social cohesion
, 42
Fraud
, 8–9, 147, 150
Free eBook Supply Chain
, 112
Fulcrum
, 122
Funded
agencies
, 16, 106, 116, 128, 131, 137, 148
research
, 16, 42, 44
sources
, 66, 131, 143
Funding
, 1, 27, 47, 119
agencies
, 121
grant
, 122
portfolios
, 39
public
, 42–43
scarcity
, 42
sources of parent organization
, 143
Future of the History of Chemical Information, The
, 3
G-index
, 5–6, 65, 71
Gamesmanship
, 8–9, 147
Gaming
, 43, 140, 147
Garfield, Eugene
, 2–3
Goals
, 15, 18, 44, 148
strategic
, 17
Google
, 49, 117–118
Google analytics
, 116–117
Google Books
, 109
Google Data Studio (2017)
, 116–117
Google Documents
, 22–23
Google Scholar
, 2, 4–5, 9–10, 40–42, 47, 49, 51, 63–64, 65–66, 109, 111, 129, 144, 146
Google Scholar Citations
, 5–6, 41, 49, 65
Google Sheets
, 25
Government funding
, 1
Grants
, 27, 44, 47, 60, 107, 109, 131, 143
Gray literature
, 41–42
H-index
, 1, 5–6, 41, 63, 65, 71, 74, 144, 147, 150
Hathi Trust
, 122
Health sciences
, 114–115
Higher Education Funding Council
, 44
Hirsch’s indicator
, 5–6
Humanities
, 2–3, 10–11, 105, 114, 119, 123
Humanities Open Book Program
, 107
Humanities-oriented monograph publishers
, 106
HuMetricsHSS
, 124
Identifiers
, 20, 27, 29, 31, 33, 50, 131, 148
persistent
, 36, 146
standardized
, 144
Immediacy index
, 3
Impact
, 1, 5, 17, 23
measuring
, 8, 11
metrics
, 1–3, 9–10
potential
, 49, 52
statements
, 143
Story
, 63
InCites
, 17, 34, 64–65, 144
Incorporating Google Analytics
, 117
Indexes
, 2–3, 109, 114–115, 120
ISI
, 2
Indexing
, 65, 109, 114–115, 119
manual
, 10
Indicators
, 1–3, 6–7, 10, 16, 35
altmetric
, 6, 150
newer
, 150
Influenza Encyclopedia
, 108
Infographics
, 11
Information
, 6, 10–11
center
, 10–11, 143–145, 149
science
, 30, 32, 34, 70, 72, 129, 143
scientist
, 16, 150
Informetrics
, 16
Infrastructure
, 18–19, 27, 35, 55, 115
INRIX
, 48
INSI
, 148
Institute for Scientific Information indexes (ISI indexes)
, 2–3
Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS)
, 10, 47–48
considerations and potential steps
, 54–55
documenting PTA/SB1 projects
, 50–51
Google Scholar
, 49–50
Library
, 48
measuring impact for
, 48
tracking PTS/SB1 projects
, 51–54
Institutional benchmarks
, 143
Institutional repositories
, 108, 117
Institutional repository
, 105
Institutions
, 131–136
academic
, 46, 127–130, 140, 147
Instruction
, 62–63, 69–70, 145
Internal staff-intensive process
, 129
Internet of Things ()
, 36
Investment
, 42, 44, 114, 121
Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles
, 146
Journal articles
, 52, 67, 109, 111, 119, 129
peer-reviewed
, 1, 6–7, 143, 146
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
, 63–64
metrics for top journals
, 81
top journals by JCR category ranking
, 80
Journal editors
, 114–115, 144–145
Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
, 1, 39–41, 63, 70–71, 73–74, 114, 147
Journal Impact Factors (JIFs)
, 128
Journal of Criminal Justice (JCJ)
, 9
Journal(s)
, 106, 114
compliance
, 114–115
defiance
, 116–117
rankings
, 64
scholarly
, 118
usage metrics
, 1
Judgment of experts (see Peer review)
Knowledge Unlatched
, 107, 121–122
Labor-intensive processes
, 144
Laboratories
, 15, 21, 30
Law
, 46, 50, 149
Leadership
, 122–123
and collaboration, modeling
, 105
Leading for change
, 120
community-owned infrastructure
, 122
leadership and collaboration
, 122–123
new business models
, 120–122
Level of Service (LOS)
, 46
Librarians
, 11, 62–64, 66–67, 70, 74, 146
Library Information Technology unit
, 108
Library/libraries
, 10, 16, 35–36, 61
community
, 10, 64, 70
publishers
, 105, 117, 119, 122
specialized
, 10, 61, 149
Limitations
, 8, 10, 41, 72, 121, 145, 147–149
Linked data
, 7–8, 150
Literature
scholarly
, 68, 111–112
searching
, 62
Management
, 17, 21–22, 33, 35, 62–63, 73
Marketing
, 74, 136
Marketing & Outreach
, 107
Maturity/level of services
, 144
Measurements
, 8, 50, 85–86, 140, 146, 150
Measures, citation based
, 106, 109, 119
Mendeley
, 82
Metadata
, 7, 18, 24, 28, 33, 35
Methodologies
, 48–49, 148, 150
Metric literacy
, 145, 147, 149
Metric misuse
, 9
Metric Tide, The
, 147
Metrics (see also Research impact metrics;Scholarly metrics; Site visit team metrics (SVT metrics))
analysis
, 20, 25, 27–28, 30–31, 33, 35
journal-level
, 9, 63–65, 71
at NCAR library
, 17–18
new
, 39–55, 147, 149–151
tide
, 123
Toolkit
, 124
traditional
, 30–31, 74
Michalek, Andrea
, 7
Michigan Journal of Medicine
, 114
Michigan Publishing
, 105, 106, 111
Deep Blue
, 117–120
future directions
, 123–124
journals
, 114–117
leading for change
, 120–123
monographs
, 108–114
U-M Library
, 106–107
Michigan Publishing Services (MPS)
, 105–108, 116
Michigan Research Experts
, 118–119
Mini-AIRs
, 69
Mission
, 16, 61, 131, 143, 148
Models, computational
, 22, 26–27
Money
, 46
Monographs
, 10, 105–106, 108
compliance
, 108–111
defiance
, 111–114
publishers
, 106, 113
Moving Ahead for Progress in 21st Century Act (MAP-21)
, 45, 47
Multimodal assessment
, 45–46
Museums
, 127–128
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
, 60
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
, 10, 15–16
analysis
, 34
collaborative activities
, 23
fact sheet
, 25
managing
, 33–34
metrics at NCAR library
, 17–18
planning
, 33
reporting
, 34–35
scientists
, 16–17
supercomputer community metrics
, 18–21
supercomputer metrics outcomes
, 20–21
National Center for Computational Toxicology
, 61
National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)
, 46
National Exposure Research Laboratory
, 61
National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
, 61
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
, 148
National Institute of Standards and Technology
, 145
National Institutes of Health Library (NIH Library)
, 44, 145–146
National Risk Management Research Laboratory
, 61
National Science Foundation (NSF)
, 15, 42, 131–132
site visit team metrics
, 21–27
Natural history museum
, 11, 129, 131, 136
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC)
, 11, 129
Naysayers
, 146–147
NCAR Annual Report (NAR)
, 17
NCAR Library
, 15–17
metrics case studies
, 18–31
scholarly metrics workflow
, 31–35
Network analysis
, 4, 72, 145
New business models
, 105, 120–122
“New” metrics
, 149–151
News
, 82
media
, 130
NIH Library
, 145–146
Non-human resources
, 18
Normalization techniques
, 40
Office of Air and Radiation
, 61
Office of Research and Development (ORD)
, 61, 73
Office of Science and Technology ()
, 44
Office of Scientific Research and development ()
, 42
Open access
, 8, 10, 114, 120–122
journals
, 105
monographs
, 107
scholarship
, 143
Open Book Publishers (OBP)
, 112–113
Open Ebook project
, 122
Open peer review
, 7–8
Open Syllabus project
, 7, 113
OpenSky
, 18
ORCID
, 54–55, 123, 148
Organization
benefits for
, 149
peer
, 106
social sector
, 50
Original scholarly research
, 141
“Out of the box” resources
, 144–145
Outcomes
, 15, 18–20, 24, 36, 50
Output, research
, 1–2, 8, 11, 15, 41, 44, 46–47, 54–55, 108, 118, 120, 131–132, 140–141, 144, 146, 149–150
Outreach
, 127
Parent organization
, 10, 143, 148–149
Partisan Gerrymandering and Construction of American Democracy (Engstrom)
, 111
Peer organizations
, 106
Peer review
, 8, 40, 107, 147
blind
, 8
journals
, 127
open
, 8
print and online journal
, 128–129
publications
, 128
Peer Reviewed Journals
, 127
Peer-reviewed journal articles (PRJAs)
, 1, 6–7, 143, 146
Performance goals
, 45
Performance measurement
, 45
Performance outcomes
, 21
Philosophers’ Imprint
, 107–108
Planning, strategic
, 35, 128
PLoS Medicine
, 40
Plum Analytics
, 7, 63
“PlumPrint”
, 7, 72
PlumX
, 7, 68
Policies, public
, 7, 42
Policy documents
, 7, 65, 72, 82, 106, 109, 113, 130, 132
Policy makers
, 137
Presentations
, 21, 33, 73, 109, 129–130, 136, 141, 146
Preservation
, 118, 127
Primary scholarly publishing unit
, 105
Pritchard, Alan
, 3
PRJAs (peer-reviewed journal articles)
, 1, 6–7, 143, 146
Process improvement
, 26
Process refinement
, 26
Product development
, 65
AIR
, 68–69
next cycle of ideation
, 67–68
RIR
, 65–67
Productivity, researcher
, 6, 48
Programs, educational
, 129
Project management
, 27, 51
Project-specific publication metrics
, 31
Projects
, 11, 27, 29–30
Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (2018)
, 131–132
PTA (Public Transportation Account)
, 47–48
PTA/SB1 project, documenting
, 50–51
PTS/SB1 projects, tracking
, 51–54
Public engagement
, 55, 132, 136
Public Transportation Account (PTA)
, 47
Publication metrics
, 22–23, 27–28, 31, 34
Publications sets
, 22, 32, 34
Publications-per-dollar
, 28, 30
Publications-per-dollar metric
, 28
Publishers
, 15, 117, 121–122
scholarly
, 111
Publishing
, 18, 30, 105, 122
electronic
, 1, 6, 108
scientific
, 40
Publishing peer-reviewed scholarly monographs
, 105
Publons
, 8
PubMed
, 114
Pure science
, 1
Qualitative measures
, 2
Quantitative measures
, 2
Rankings, percentile
, 4
Rankings, weighted
, 4
ReadCube
, 109
REF 2014
, 44
References
, 52, 65, 66
cited
, 3, 6
Requestors of impact metrics
, 145
Research
activities
, 15–18, 43, 48, 50, 127–128, 130, 133, 137
agenda
, 2, 41
areas
, 22, 43, 66, 68, 145
articles
, 67, 108, 119, 129–130, 136, 138–139, 141
assessment
, 13, 44, 51, 53, 123
centers
, 47–48, 51, 55
cycle
, 2, 7, 150
data services
, 108
dissemination
, 8
evaluation
, 4, 146, 150–151
findings
, 51
funding
, 39, 44
groups
, 21, 39–40
institutions
, 128, 140
library
, 34–35
metrics in evaluation
, 148
organizations
, 11, 15, 30, 33, 35, 39, 61
outputs
, 1–2, 8, 11, 15, 41, 44, 46–47, 54–55, 108, 118, 120, 131–132, 140–141, 144, 146, 149–150
portfolio
, 53, 55
productivity
, 48
programs
, 19, 39, 43–47, 49, 51
projects
, 7, 9, 39, 43, 47, 49, 53, 106, 129
Symposium
, 146
Research Excellence Framework (REF)
, 43–44, 106
Research impact
, 1–2, 39–44, 62–63, 73
services
, 11, 59, 62–63, 67, 72–74, 145–146
Research impact metrics (see also Scholarly metrics)
, 1, 71, 106, 108, 114, 120, 124
benefits for greater organization
, 149
benefits for information center
, 149
best practices
, 148
challenges
, 144–145
divergence
, 143–144
efforts at regulation
, 147–148
influencers and sources
, 2–3
“new” metrics
, 149–151
spread of scholarly metrics in specialized settings
, 9–10
Research Impact Reports (RIRs)
, 65–70, 73, 76–77
Research information management (RIM)
, 118–119
Research objects, non-traditional
, 119
Resource allocation
, 1–2
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
, 60
Revenue-generating business
, 121
Risk and Technology Reviews (RTRs)
, 62
Samvera Fedora framework
, 108
SB-743
, 46
SB
, 1, 47, 48, 52–53
Scholarly achievement
, 148
Scholarly activities
, 16, 35, 70
Scholarly communication
, 16
Scholarly impact
, 2, 16, 18, 24, 39, 116, 128
Scholarly metrics
, 3, 6, 8, 15–16
establishment
, 39–44
lessons learning on future of
, 35–36
NCAR Library Metrics Case Studies
, 18–31
NCAR library scholarly metrics workflow
, 31–35
technological enablers of
, 36
Scholarly monographs
, 105, 107–108
Scholarly output
, 5–8, 10, 19, 105, 118–119, 143–144, 146
Scholarly publications
, 15, 17–19, 41, 109, 129–130
Scholarly publishing
, 52, 62, 106, 117, 121
sustainable
, 105
Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO)
, 107–108
Scholarly research
, 35, 127–128, 130, 141, 150
Scholars
, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 16, 107, 129, 146
Scholarship
, 1–2, 16, 36, 62, 105, 108, 113, 116, 120, 122, 143
peer-reviewed
, 17
Sci2
, 72
Science and Technology for America’s Reinvestment Measuring EffecTs of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science (STAR METRICS®)
, 44
Scientific knowledge
, 42, 44
Scientists
, 2, 9–11, 16, 23, 61–62, 149
Scientology
, 3
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
, 4, 150
Scopus
, 2–6, 15, 41, 49, 109, 111, 114–115, 118
Searching, patent
, 67
Self-citations
, 4
Self-defeating cycle
, 114–115
Shepard’s Citations
, 3
Site visit team metrics (SVT metrics)
, 21
high-level metrics profile
, 23
lessons learning
, 26–27
outcomes
, 24–26
Social media
, 6–7, 16, 28, 128, 130, 136–137, 140, 150
Social Science Citation Index (Garfield)
, 2–3
Social sciences
, 2–3, 10–11, 105, 109, 119, 124, 145
Social sector organizations
, 50
Societal impact of academic research
, 42–43
Societal impacts
, 42–43
Software
, 18–19, 22, 25, 27–29
citation of
, 28, 146
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
, 4
Special libraries
, 10
Specialized research impact services
, 145–146
Staff skill sets
, 144
Stakeholders
, 9–11, 26, 32–35, 41, 46–47, 49–50, 52–53, 55, 74, 106, 114, 117, 122, 144, 148–149
Standardized identifiers, lack of
, 144
Standards, disciplinary
, 6
STAR metrics
, 44
STEM fields
, 115, 119, 123–124
Subjects/objects evaluation
, 143
Supercomputer
, 10, 35
community metrics
, 18–21
Superfund program
, 60
Systems
, 16, 33, 40–41, 54, 109, 119
Technical resources
, 144
Technological enablers of scholarly metrics
, 36
Technology
, 10, 15, 32, 34, 41, 61, 107, 132, 143, 145
Time
, 44–45
Tissue distribution and urinary excretion of inorganic arsenic
, 93–94
Tool
analytic
, 128
bibliometric
, 10
evaluative
, 150
Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)
, 107, 122
Toxic Substance Control Act
, 60
Traditional citation-based approaches
, 147
Traditional modes of publishing
, 117–118
Traditional scholarly metrics
, 41
Transportation
, 44–46
Transportation research
, 46, 49, 51–52, 55, 144
Transportation Research Board (TRB)
, 46, 51
TRID
, 51
Twitter
, 82, 130, 139–140
Tyranny of Metrics, The
, 8
UC Berkeley
, 10, 39
UC Los Angeles (UCLA)
, 39
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
, 11, 45, 59–60, 104
bibliometrics at EPA
, 62–65
Library Network
, 61
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
, 16, 18–19, 27
University of California Institute of Transportation Studies (UC-ITS)
, 39, 47, 50–55
University of Michigan (U-M)
, 105
Library
, 106–107, 120
Press
, 106–107
Transportation Research Institute
, 108
University of Michigan Press (UMP)
, 10, 106–107, 112–113
US Environmental Protection Agency’s Library at Research Triangle Park Library (EPA-RTP Library)
, 59
agency of evolving priorities
, 60–61
article distribution by research category
, 79
biases/limitations
, 70–72
bibliometrics at EPA
, 62–65
challenges
, 69–70
citations each year in web of science
, 78
future outlook
, 72–74
highest scoring Altmetric articles
, 82
JCR metrics for top journals
, 81
product development
, 65–69
RIR
, 76–77
in support of research
, 61–62
top highly cited articles in web of science
, 83–96
top journals by JCR category ranking
, 80
Usage data
, 112–113, 117, 122–123
Usage statistics
, 106
USDOT
, 47, 51, 54–55
User education
, 145
Value
, 3, 6, 31, 35, 48, 52–53, 117, 120–121, 131, 136, 140, 149
Variations, h-index
, 5–6
Visualization, data
, 64, 66, 68
Web analytics
, 1, 112, 147
Web of Science (WoS)
, 3–4, 18, 24, 40–41, 49, 63–65, 72, 78, 114
API
, 67
highly cited articles in
, 83–96
Webometrics
, 6
Wikipedia
, 7, 82, 130, 140
Word cloud
, 21
Workflow process
, 21, 31–32
Workforce development
, 42, 55
- Prelims
- Chapter 1: A Brief History and Overview
- Chapter 2: Scholarly Metrics at NCAR
- Chapter 3: New Metrics for Measuring Academic Research Outside the Ivory Tower
- Chapter 4: A Breath of Fresh Air: New Bibliometric Services at EPA-RTP Library
- Chapter 5: Compliance and Defiance: Michigan Publishing's Early Encounters with Research Impact Metrics
- Chapter 6: Altmetrics in the Museum Environment
- Chapter 7: What Have We Learned Today? A Synthesis of Cases Presented
- Index