A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact. Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.

This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research as

"Bibliometrics and altmetrics are increasingly becoming the focus of interest in the context of research evaluation. The Handbook Bibliometrics provides a compr

How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct. The traditional academic impe