Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation a

Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation a

This book is written for members of the scholarly research community, and for persons involved in research evaluation and research policy. More specifically, it

At last, the first systematic guide to the growing jungle of citation indices and other bibliometric indicators. Written with the aim of providing a complete an

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