Faculty members are used to having to prove that their scholarship has value. But at a time when higher education is under sharp scrutiny, a growing number of professors are turning to alternative ...

Steven B. Roberts’s 103-page tenure package features the usual long-as-your-arm list of peer-reviewed publications. But Mr. Roberts, an assistant professor at the University of Washington who studies ...

To date, academia’s traditional framework for attempting to understand influential scholarship has lacked a concern with “real world” impacts. In the sciences, supplementing peer review by considering ...

Last week, I went to NetSci, the big yearly network science conference. Hosted at Northwestern University this year, I had a great time. But in addition to enjoying the conference itself, this year I ...

In September 2010, Jason Priem, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, was interested in promoting the value of a set of ...

At one time Pettifer would have listed the paper on his CV accompanied by the journal's impact factor and the article's number of citations — in this case, about 80. But when he came up for promotion ...

Gerardo Muñoz’s graduate school professor did not post a PDF of the assigned author’s paper on Canvas, the class learning management system. The instructor explained that they were reading works by ...

Simply sign up to the Business education myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Citations — how often a research paper is referenced by others — have long been a quantitative proxy for ...

When in trouble or in doubt, invent new words. We have bibliometrics and scientometrics from the Age of Print. Now they are joined by informetrics, cybermetrics, webometrics and altmetrics, which ...

Metrics are quantitative measures designed to help people evaluate research outputs. There are many types of metric available, but this guide focuses on those designed to help track the attention ...