Demystifying Scholarly Metrics: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by Marc W. Vinyard, Jaimie Beth Colvin

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 229
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Both librarians and professors can be overwhelmed by the bewildering number of scholarly metrics. This user-friendly book demystifies them, helping librarians become familiar with scholarly metrics and giving them the confidence to assist faculty at their institutions. It also equips faculty authors with the knowledge to evaluate journals and use metrics to track their scholarly impact.

Several controversies exist in the scholarly metrics landscape, including a disagreement between the proponents of altmetrics and traditional bibliometrics. Even more contentious debates are breaking out over predatory journals and open access publishing. Authors Mark Vinyard and Jaimie Beth Colvin, who successfully launched a faculty publishing initiative, explain which aspects of metrics are truly essential to grasp, and they place these numbers in context. They help readers identify the metrics that are the best fit for their scholarship and give librarians and professors the tools to make smart decisions in this changing scholarly metrics landscape.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Chapter 1. Why Are You Reading This Book?
Chapter 2. You Know More Than You Think
Chapter 3. H-Indexes, Altmetrics, and Impact Factors—Oh My!
Chapter 4. Metrics for All Kinds of Scholars
Chapter 5. Open Access: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Chapter 6. Finding a Journal That’s the Right Fit
Chapter 7. Publish, Don’t Perish! Applying What You’ve Learned
Chapter 8. Developing or Finding Metrics Services at Your Library
Chapter 9. Avoid Drowning in a Sea of Scholarly Metrics: How to Stay Current
Index
About the Authors