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 ...

In this webinar of February 8, 2021 10:00-11:00, we will demo how you can monitor and increase your research paper's social media attention with databases Altmetric Explorer, PlumX and Kudos. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...