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Evaluating scholarship and research impact : history, practices, and policy development

Alstete, Jeffrey W., author, Beutell, Nicholas J., author, Meyer, John P. (Professor), author

Overview

Faculty members, scholars, and researchers often ask where they should publish their work; which outlets are most suitable to showcase their research? Which journals should they publish in to ensure their work is read and cited? How can the impact of their scholarly output be maximized? The answers to these and related questions affect not only individual scholars, but also academic and research institution stakeholders who are under constant pressure to create and implement organizational policies, evaluation measures and reward systems that encourage quality, high impact research from their members. The explosion of academic research in recent years, along with advances in information technology, has given rise to omnipresent and increasingly important scholarly metrics. These measures need to be assessed and used carefully, however, as their widespread availability often tempts users to jump to improper conclusions without considering several caveats. While various quantitative tools enable the ranking, evaluating, categorizing, and comparing of journals and articles, metrics such as author or article citation counts, journal impact factors, and related measures of institutional research output are somewhat inconsistent with traditional goals and objectives of higher education research and scholarly academic endeavors.

• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subject: Learning and scholarship United States. / Research United States. / Education, Higher United States. / Scholarly publishing United States. / College teachers United States. / College teachers. / Education, Higher. / Learning and scholarship. / Research. / Scholarly publishing. / United States.
• ISBN: 9781787563902

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
LB2848.A63 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE