| Measuring Scholarly Impact: Methods and Practice Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Ding, Ying (Editor), Rousseau, Ronald (Editor), Wolfram, Dietmar (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319348639 ISBN-13: 9783319348636 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | System Administration - Storage & Retrieval - Social Science | Statistics - Computers | Databases - Data Mining |
| Dewey: 004 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.12 lbs) 346 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is an authoritative handbook of current topics, technologies and methodological approaches that may be used for the study of scholarly impact. The included methods cover a range of fields such as statistical sciences, scientific visualization, network analysis, text mining, and information retrieval. The techniques and tools enable researchers to investigate metric phenomena and to assess scholarly impact in new ways. Each chapter offers an introduction to the selected topic and outlines how the topic, technology or methodological approach may be applied to metrics-related research. Comprehensive and up-to-date, Measuring Scholarly Impact: Methods and Practice is designed for researchers and scholars interested in informetrics, scientometrics, and text mining. The hands-on perspective is also beneficial to advanced-level students in fields from computer science and statistics to information science. |