Author: Michael Thelwall Full Title: Web Indicators For Research Evaluation: A Practical Guide Publisher: Morgan & Claypool (October 6, 2016) Year: 2017 ISBN-13: 9781627059176, 9781627059718 ISBN-10: 1627059172 Pages: 170 Language: English Genre: Network Administration File type: PDF (True, but nonnative Cover) Quality: 9/10 Price: $60.00 This book describes and evaluates a range of web indicators (altmetrics, webometrics, web metrics) for aspects of societal or scholarly impact. The recent increasing demand for research evaluation within universities and other research organizations has shown that traditional citation-based indicators do not reflect the societal impacts of research and are slow to appear. Michael Thelwall outlines practical strategies for obtaining many web indicators after a discussion of the theory and practices of using and evaluating web indicators for research assessment. In addition to describing traditional scholarly outputs such as journal articles and monographs, it also covers web indicators for videos, datasets, software and other non-standard scholarly outputs. Written for information science students and practitioners, Web Indicators for Research Evaluation describes strategies to analyze web indicators for individual publications as well as to compare the impacts of groups of publications. The practical section includes descriptions of how to use the free software Webometric Analyst to gather and analyze web data. ------------- Our members see more. Join us!
