Book chapter
Measuring Scholarly Impact
Representing Scientific Knowledge
28 Nov 2017
Abstract
The ability to measure scholarly impact, ranging from individual scientists to an institution of researchers, is crucial to both research assessment and the advance of science itself. In this chapter, we summarize an array of fundamental and widely used concepts and computational methods for measuring scholarly impact as well as identifying more generic properties such as semantic relatedness, burstness, clumping, and centrality. Most of these common ideas are applicable to a wide variety of needs as long as we can identify the profound issues that are in common across distinct phenomena. Normalizations of metrics across scientific fields and the year of publication are discussed with concrete examples.
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- Title
- Measuring Scholarly Impact
- Creators
- Chaomei Chen - Drexel UniversityMin Song - Yonsei University
- Publication Details
- Representing Scientific Knowledge
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Number of pages
- 66
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Other Identifier
- 991019196789704721