Web Indicators for Research Evaluation
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Web Indicators for Research Evaluation

A Practical Guide

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Web Indicators for Research Evaluation

A Practical Guide

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About This Book

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.

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Publisher
Springer
Year
2022
ISBN
9783031023040
Topic
Informatique
Subtopic
Réseaux informatiques

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Evaluating Indicators
  7. Usage, Popularity and Attention Indicators
  8. Academic, Commercial and Organisational Web Indicators
  9. Educational Impact Indicators
  10. Medical Impact Indicators
  11. Applications
  12. Collecting Data for Sets of Documents
  13. Indicator Formulae and Experimental Considerations
  14. Calculating Indicators with Webometric Analyst
  15. Conclusions
  16. Bibliobraphy
  17. Author Biography