Table of Contents

1. THE BASICS

What is this book about?
Why measure research?
Who is this book for?
What are the historical foundations for measuring research?
What are the theoretical foundations of measuring research?
What is an indicator?
What are the data sources for measuring research?

2. THE DATA
What is a citation index?
What is the Web of Science?
What is Scopus?
What is Google Scholar Citations?
What are the differences between the main citation indexes?
What are the cultural biases of data sources?
How are disciplines defined?

3. THE INDICATORS
How is authorship defined and measured?
How is research production defined and measured?
How is collaboration defined and measured?
How is interdisciplinarity defined and measured?
How is impact defined and measured?
Why is research cited?
How do citation rates vary by time and discipline?
What is not cited?
How concentrated are citations?
How are citations counted?
What is the difference between references and citations?
What are self-citations and self-references?
How is obsolescence measured?
What is the journal Impact Factor?
What is the Eigenfactor Score?
What is Source Normalized Impact (SNIP)?
What is the SCImago Journal Rank?
What is CiteScore?
What is the h-index?
What are altmetrics?
How is research funding measured?
What are indicators for applied research?
What is the relationship between science indicators and peer review?

4. THE BIG PICTURE
Who controls research measurement?
What are the responsibilities of stakeholders?
What are the adverse effects of measurement?
What is the future of measuring research?

FURTHER READING
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About the Author

Cassidy R. Sugimoto is Associate Professor of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington.

Vincent Larivière is Associate Professor of Information Science and Canada Research Chair at University of Montreal.

Reviews

"All in all, Measuring Research is a must-read for people new to research measurement. It will inform them very well on the current state of research measurement; thus, it serves its intended goals very well." - Thed van Leeuwen, Journal of Informetrics