Quality and impact are two critical elements of the scholarly record. Research and scholarship is measured by both long-standing and newly developed techniques and tools.
Peer ReviewAuthors and publishers rely on the peer-review process to evaluate the quality of manuscripts submitted for publication.
With the advent of open access, new forms of peer review are emerging.
Resources
Nature's Peer Review Debate (2006)
Quantitative Measures
Statistical tools have been used for many years to gather quantitative data on the impact of scientific and scholarly research. The set of methods and tools used is called bibliometrics. One form of bibliometrics is the analysis of citations.
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Alternative Metrics
The advent of open access and scholarship has resulted in new options for evaluating research and scholarship.
Resources
Altmetrics: What, Why, Where (PDF). Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Special Section. 39, no. 4 (April/May 2013)
