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Scholarly Impact

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 Review
Authors 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.

Resources

Journal impact factor

Alternative Metrics

The advent of open access and scholarship has resulted in new options for evaluating research and scholarship.

Resources

altmetrics

Altmetrics: What, Why, Where (PDF). Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Special Section. 39, no. 4 (April/May 2013)

ImpactStory 

Plum Analytics

 
 
 

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