This literature review describes web indicators for the impact of books, software, datasets,
videos and other non-standard academic outputs. Although journal articles dominate …

This study aims to shed light on the implementation of the digital object identifier (DOI) in the
two most important multidisciplinary databases, namely Web of Science Core Collection and …

Although citation counts are often used to evaluate the research impact of academic
publications, they are problematic for books that aim for educational or cultural impact. To fill …

Although peer‐review and citation counts are commonly used to help assess the scholarly
impact of published research, informal reader feedback might also be exploited to help …

More than 5 years after their emergence, altmetrics are still seen as a promise to
complement traditional citation-based indicators. However, no study has focused on their …

The main purpose of this macro-study is to shed light on the broad impact of books. For this
purpose, the impact of a very large collection of books (more than 200,000) has been …

Scholars writing books that are widely used to support teaching in higher education may be
undervalued because of a lack of evidence of teaching value. Although sales data may give …

As with articles and journals, the customary methods for measuring books' academic impact
mainly involve citations, which is easy but limited to interrogating traditional citation …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the capabilities, functionalities and
appropriateness of Altmetric. com as a data source for the bibliometric analysis of books in …

This paper proposes an open-science-aligned approach that uses library metadata to
evaluate individual books. I analyse the suitability of this approach for individual book …