Preface ....................................................... vii
I History ...................................................... 1
1 Scholars and Scripts, Spoors and Scores ...................... 3
Blaise Cronin
2 History and Evolution of (Biblio)Metrics .................... 23
Nicold De Bellii
II Critiques.................................................... 45
3 The Citation: From Culture to Infrastructure ................ 47
Paul Wouters
4 "The Data-It Is Me!" ("Les données-c'est Moi!") ............. 67
Ronald E. Day
5 The Ethics of Evaluative Bibliometrics ...................... 85
Jonathan Furner
6 Criteria for Evaluating Indicators ......................... 109
Yves Gingras
III Methods and Tools ......................................... 127
7 Obliteration by Incorporation .............................. 129
Katherine W. McCain
8 A Network Approach to Scholarly Evaluation ................. 151
Jevin D. West and Daril A. Vilhena
9 Science Visualization and Discursive Knowledge ............. 167
Loet Leydesdorff
10 Measuring Interdkciplinarity ............................... 187
Vincent Larivière and Yves Gingras
11 Bibliometric Standards for Evaluating Research Institutes in
Natural Sciences ........................................... 201
Lutz Bommann, Benjamin F. Bowman, Johann Bauer, Werner Marx,
Margit Palzenberger
12 Identifying and Quantifying Research Strengths Using
Market Segmentation ........................................ 225
Kevin W. Boyack and Richard Klavans
13 Finding and Recommending Scholarly Articles ................ 243
Michael J. Kurtz and Edwin A. Henneken
IV Alternative Metrics ....................................... 261
14 Altmetrics ................................................. 263
Jason Priem
15 Web Impact Metrics for Research Assessment ................. 289
Kayvan Kousha and Mike Thelwall
16 Bibliographic References in Web 2.0 ........................ 307
Judit Bar-Han, Hadas Shema, and Mike Thelwall
17 Readership Metrics ......................................... 327
Stefanie Haustein
18 Evaluating the Work of Judges .............................. 345
Peter A. Hook
19 Academic Genealogy ......................................... 365
Cassidy R. Sugimoto
V Perspectives ................................................ 383
20 A Publishing Perspective on Bibliometrics .................. 385
Judith Kamalski, Andrew Plume, and Mayur Amin
21 Science Metrics and Science Policy ......................... 397
Julia Lane, Mark Largent, and Rebecca Rosen
List of Contributors .......................................... 413
Index ......................................................... 423
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