Recently, the need to contribute to the evaluation of the scientific, social, and political impact
of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research has become a demand of policy makers …

Policy makers, academic administrators, scholars, and members of the public are clamoring
for indicators of the value and reach of research. The question of how to quantify the impact …

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

The expansion of Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) over the recent years has
partially accounted for the “norm” of growth of research output in many bibliometric analysis …

This study provides an overview of science from the Wikipedia perspective. A methodology
has been established for the analysis of how Wikipedia editors regard science through their …

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 …

This study aims to assess the role of authored and edited books in scholarly communication
through citation analysis. It focuses on social science journal articles written by authors from …

This paper presents a first approach to analyzing the factors that determine the citation
characteristics of books. For this we use the Thomson Reuters' book citation index, a novel …