| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Great debates in higher education |
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Great debates in higher education.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Evaluating Scholarship and Research Impact; Contents; About the Authors; Preface; Chapter 1 A Primer on Policy and Research; Forms of Research and Measures; Disruptive Technology and Other Forces Affecting Research Policies; Organization of the Monograph; Chapter 2 History and Evolution of Scholarly Metrics and Impact Factors; Origin of Measuring Scholarship; Timeline of Measuring Scholarship; Scholarly Metric Usage Grows and Raises Concerns; Changing Nature of Academic Publishing; Chapter 3 Concerns and Problems; Inaccuracies; Calls for Accountability as a Pathology |
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Chapter 4 Benefits and Possibilities for Research Policy ImprovementsImpact is Perceived as an Indirect Measure of Quality; Journal Impact Factors Can Be Useful; Informed Research Funding Decisions and Recognition; Using Scholarly Metrics in Policy Creation and Implementation; Chapter 5 Conclusion; Appendix: San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment; Putting Science into the Assessment of Research; References; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
This book probes the dynamics of academic research and scholarship evaluation. Readers will learn about scholarly metric evolution, impact factors, disruptive technologies, and a myriad of forces affecting policy development at institutions through an examination of widely-used measurements and growing concerns about their influence |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 20, 2018) |
| Subject |
Learning and scholarship.
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Research.
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Research
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Scholarly Communication
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Education
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research (function)
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"Higher & further education, tertiary education".
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Research
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Scholarships
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beutell, Nicholas J
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Meyer, John P
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| ISBN |
9781787563872 |
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1787563871 |
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9781787563896 |
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1787563898 |
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