Index

The New Metrics: Practical Assessment of Research Impact

ISBN: 978-1-78973-270-2, eISBN: 978-1-78973-269-6

Publication date: 19 August 2019

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(2019), "Index", Lasda, E.M. (Ed.) The New Metrics: Practical Assessment of Research Impact, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 141-151. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-269-620191008

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INDEX

Index

Academia
, 9, 39, 41, 145

Academic

disciplinary reputation/prestige
, 112

evaluation
, 39

institutions
, 127

journals
, 40–41

libraries
, 149

publications
, 48, 52

research institutions
, 128

Academic research impact measurement
, 39

ITS
, 47–48

scholarly metrics establishment
, 39–44

tracking and measuring impact for ITS
, 48–55

transportation
, 44–46

Accountability
, 8, 43–45, 48, 50, 150

Acquisitions unit
, 107

Adie, Euan
, 7

Administration
, 46, 50, 63, 86, 121

Administrators
, 9, 11, 46, 55, 116, 121, 124, 140, 145, 148–149

AFI (Altmetric for Institutions)
, 130–131, 133

Agencies, federal
, 59

AIRs
, 67–71, 73

Algorithms
, 72, 146

Alternative metrics (Altmetrics)
, 6–7, 16, 41, 63

application
, 30

articles
, 82

citation and altmetric data
, 141

institution view
, 131–136

JIFs
, 128

NHMLAC
, 129

researcher view
, 136–141

tools
, 11, 128–131, 140–141

value of
, 11, 31, 129

Altmerric.org
, 7

Altmetric Attention Score
, 7, 132, 134, 138

Altmetric badge
, 113

Altmetric Explorer
, 65, 130

for Publishers
, 113

tool
, 137

Altmetric manifesto
, 6

Altmetric.com
, 7

Altmetrics (see Alternative metrics)

American Chemical Society
, 80

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
, 44

Analytics

Clarivate
, 2, 15, 17, 20, 64

Google
, 116–117

Plum
, 7, 63

web
, 1, 112, 147

Anthropology
, 127, 139

Application Programing Interface (API)
, 20, 24–25, 31, 33–35, 67, 70, 72, 144

Applications
, 2–3, 6, 10, 20, 73, 114–115

altmetric
, 30, 129

grant
, 39

Approach, ethnographic
, 49, 53

Article Impact Reports (AIRs)
, 67–71, 73, 97–103

Article Influence calculations
, 3

Article Influence Score
, 3–4

Article level metrics
, 3, 130

Artifacts
, 127–128

arXiv
, 118

Assessment
, 43, 52, 60, 146

multimodal
, 45–46

portfolio
, 54

qualitative
, 139

research
, 44, 51, 53, 123

Association of University Presses community
, 122

Atmospheric modeling
, 19

Atmospheric sciences
, 19, 21

Author identifiers
, 144

Author level metrics
, 5, 63

Author profile tool
, 5

Authority
, 60, 62, 73, 115, 140

Automated filters
, 18

Automation
, 25

Awards
, 73, 107, 112

Becker Model
, 8

Benchmarking
, 26, 147

Best practices
, 120, 143, 148, 150

Bibliographic information
, 48, 129

Bibliometricians
, 5

Bibliometrics
, 1–3, 10, 15–17, 20, 26, 28, 47, 59, 62–68, 71, 114–115, 118, 144, 146

analysis
, 59, 64, 111, 114

data
, 48, 63–64

at EPA
, 62

evolving needs and assessing resources
, 64–65

indicators
, 41, 71, 148, 150

requests
, 62–63

Bibliometrics and REsearch Symposium
, 146

BKCI-SSH
, 109, 111

Blogs
, 6–7, 82, 128, 137

Book Citation Index–Humanities and Social Sciences (BKCI-SSH)
, 109

Books
, 3, 15, 48, 62, 106, 109, 111–113, 129

Bot filters
, 9

Bots
, 9, 140

Broader impacts
, 132

Brownfields program
, 60

Buschman, Michael
, 7

California Air Resources Board
, 47–48

California PATH
, 47

California State Legislature
, 10, 47

Caltrans
, 47–48, 51

Career, scholarly
, 6

Cartels, citation
, 9

Case studies
, 10–11, 18–31

Category, JCR
, 71, 80

Challenges
, 18, 66–70, 119, 122, 144–145

Chicken littles
, 146–147

Citation-based metrics (see Bibliometrics)

Citation(s)
, 4–7, 9, 19–20, 23, 29, 31, 41, 47, 52, 54, 66, 68, 109, 111, 130

and altmetric data
, 141

analysis
, 16, 128

count
, 1, 3–4, 6, 9, 17–18, 20, 23, 29–30, 63, 71, 109–111, 118, 128, 144–145, 150

data
, 2, 4, 40, 52, 63, 65, 72, 111, 147

databases
, 40, 129

frequency patterns
, 4

indexes
, 2, 3, 109, 144–145

information
, 129

metrics
, 9, 18

networks
, 4, 111

patent
, 65–66

rates
, 4, 49

tracking
, 42, 52–54

Cited half-life index
, 3

Cited publications
, 20, 24, 29, 31

CiteScore
, 4, 150

CiteULike
, 82

Clarivate Analytics
, 2, 15, 20, 27, 64

Clarivate
, 3, 34, 40

Clean Air Act (CAA)
, 60–62

Co-authorships
, 66

Collaborations
, 15–16, 23, 114, 122–123, 145

Collaborators
, 6, 16, 26, 48

Community

community-owned infrastructure
, 122

community-owned scholarly infrastructure
, 105

software and data products
, 28

Community, academic
, 7, 44

Compliance
, 108, 123

Deep Blue
, 118–119

journals
, 114–115

monographs
, 108–111

Computational Information Systems Laboratory (CISL)
, 19, 38

Computing, high performance
, 18–19, 21

Connected Corridors Program
, 47

Connotea
, 82

Context-sensitive approach/evaluation
, 50, 54

Contextualization
, 8, 36, 148

Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE program)
, 60

CrossRef
, 20, 24, 54–55, 82, 123

Curating publication sets
, 34

Curriculum vitae
, 9

Cuyahoga river fire (1969)
, 59–60

Cyberinfrastructure
, 27, 143

Dashboards, metric
, 34, 113

Data

citation principles
, 146

collection
, 22, 25, 30–31, 34–35, 54, 150

entry
, 22, 130, 144

extraction
, 20, 67, 70

output formats
, 143

projects
, 29

providers
, 4, 20, 24, 33

sources
, 7, 17, 33–34, 68, 72, 109, 118, 150

visualizations
, 64, 66, 68

Data Citation Synthesis Group
, 146

“Data trust” framework
, 123

Databases
, 2, 16, 51

scientific
, 72

DataCite
, 123

Datasets
, 2, 29, 30, 106, 108, 131, 146

De-duplication
, 22

Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
, 9, 124, 147

Deep Blue
, 105, 107, 117

compliance
, 118–119

defiance
, 119–120

institutional repository
, 105, 108

Deep Blue Repository and Research Data Service
, 108

Deep Web
, 117

Defiance
, 108–109, 123

Deep Blue
, 119–120

journals
, 116–117

monographs
, 111–114

Deployment
, 53

Development effort
, 119

Digital Science
, 109

Dimensions
, 7–8, 109–110, 150

DimensionsPlus
, 109–111

Disciplines
, 143

academic
, 39

Discoverability
, 113, 145, 148

Discovery
, 16, 64, 118–119, 129, 140, 146

Dissemination
, 1, 6, 8, 10, 35, 144

Documentation
, 3–4, 50, 54, 66, 69–70, 128

Documents
, 22, 52, 62, 62

technical
, 53, 67

DOI (digital object identifier)
, 19–20, 22–24, 28–29, 51–52, 55, 65, 123, 131, 137, 144, 148

metadata
, 123

Domain

experts
, 16, 24, 26, 33, 149

specialized
, 26

Donations
, 131, 143

Donors
, 11, 128, 137

Donut, Altmetric
, 7

EarthCube
, 10, 27

EarthCube community metrics (EC community metrics) (see also Site visit team metrics (SVT metrics))
, 27

lessons learning
, 30–31

outcomes
, 28–30

EarthCube Science Support Office (ESSO)
, 27

Ebooks
, 112–113

EBSCO Information Services
, 7

Economic

benefit
, 8, 42

impacts
, 46

Editors
, 107, 114, 116–117, 144, 145

Egghe, Leo
, 5–6

Eigenfactor
, 3

Eigenfactor Score
, 3

Elsevier
, 3–4, 7

Elsevier Announces Scopus Book Expansion Program (2013)
, 109

Emerging research areas
, 145

Emerging Sources Citation Index
, 114

Employs transparent methods
, 114

Encyclopedia of Diderot and D’Alembert Collaborative Translation Project
, 108

Energy Star program
, 60

English Language Teaching (ELT)
, 107

Entomology
, 139

Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program (BenMAP)
, 73

EPA-RTP Library
, 59–63

eScholarship
, 50–51

eSenate Bill 1 (SB1)
, 47

Evaluation
, 1, 4–6, 52, 72

academic
, 39

expert
, 147

Evaluative process
, 9

Excel spreadsheets
, 63, 65

Extreme non-normal distributions
, 113

Facebook
, 82

Faculty
, 7, 41, 48, 114, 124

FAST Act
, 45, 47, 50

Federal Highways Administration (FHA)
, 45

Federal RePORTER
, 44

FHWA template
, 50–51

Field Weighted citation Impact (FWCI)
, 40

Fields

emerging
, 123, 144

scientific
, 26, 70

Filters

automated
, 18

bot
, 9

Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act)
, 45, 47

FORCE 11
, 146

Formats
, 6, 34, 41–42, 52

new publication
, 6

Fostering social cohesion
, 42

Fraud
, 8–9, 147, 150

Free eBook Supply Chain
, 112

Fulcrum
, 122

Funded

agencies
, 16, 106, 116, 128, 131, 137, 148

research
, 16, 42, 44

sources
, 66, 131, 143

Funding
, 1, 27, 47, 119

agencies
, 121

grant
, 122

portfolios
, 39

public
, 42–43

scarcity
, 42

sources of parent organization
, 143

Future of the History of Chemical Information, The
, 3

G-index
, 5–6, 65, 71

Gamesmanship
, 8–9, 147

Gaming
, 43, 140, 147

Garfield, Eugene
, 2–3

Goals
, 15, 18, 44, 148

strategic
, 17

Google
, 49, 117–118

Google analytics
, 116–117

Google Books
, 109

Google Data Studio (2017)
, 116–117

Google Documents
, 22–23

Google Scholar
, 2, 4–5, 9–10, 40–42, 47, 49, 51, 63–64, 65–66, 109, 111, 129, 144, 146

Google Scholar Citations
, 5–6, 41, 49, 65

Google Sheets
, 25

Government funding
, 1

Grants
, 27, 44, 47, 60, 107, 109, 131, 143

Gray literature
, 41–42

H-index
, 1, 5–6, 41, 63, 65, 71, 74, 144, 147, 150

Hathi Trust
, 122

Health sciences
, 114–115

Higher Education Funding Council
, 44

Hirsch’s indicator
, 5–6

Humanities
, 2–3, 10–11, 105, 114, 119, 123

Humanities Open Book Program
, 107

Humanities-oriented monograph publishers
, 106

HuMetricsHSS
, 124

Identifiers
, 20, 27, 29, 31, 33, 50, 131, 148

persistent
, 36, 146

standardized
, 144

Immediacy index
, 3

Impact
, 1, 5, 17, 23

measuring
, 8, 11

metrics
, 1–3, 9–10

potential
, 49, 52

statements
, 143

Story
, 63

InCites
, 17, 34, 64–65, 144

Incorporating Google Analytics
, 117

Indexes
, 2–3, 109, 114–115, 120

ISI
, 2

Indexing
, 65, 109, 114–115, 119

manual
, 10

Indicators
, 1–3, 6–7, 10, 16, 35

altmetric
, 6, 150

newer
, 150

Influenza Encyclopedia
, 108

Infographics
, 11

Information
, 6, 10–11

center
, 10–11, 143–145, 149

science
, 30, 32, 34, 70, 72, 129, 143

scientist
, 16, 150

Informetrics
, 16

Infrastructure
, 18–19, 27, 35, 55, 115

INRIX
, 48

INSI
, 148

Institute for Scientific Information indexes (ISI indexes)
, 2–3

Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS)
, 10, 47–48

considerations and potential steps
, 54–55

documenting PTA/SB1 projects
, 50–51

Google Scholar
, 49–50

Library
, 48

measuring impact for
, 48

tracking PTS/SB1 projects
, 51–54

Institutional benchmarks
, 143

Institutional repositories
, 108, 117

Institutional repository
, 105

Institutions
, 131–136

academic
, 46, 127–130, 140, 147

Instruction
, 62–63, 69–70, 145

Internal staff-intensive process
, 129

Internet of Things ()
, 36

Investment
, 42, 44, 114, 121

Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles
, 146

Journal articles
, 52, 67, 109, 111, 119, 129

peer-reviewed
, 1, 6–7, 143, 146

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
, 63–64

metrics for top journals
, 81

top journals by JCR category ranking
, 80

Journal editors
, 114–115, 144–145

Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
, 1, 39–41, 63, 70–71, 73–74, 114, 147

Journal Impact Factors (JIFs)
, 128

Journal of Criminal Justice (JCJ)
, 9

Journal(s)
, 106, 114

compliance
, 114–115

defiance
, 116–117

rankings
, 64

scholarly
, 118

usage metrics
, 1

Judgment of experts (see Peer review)

Knowledge Unlatched
, 107, 121–122

Labor-intensive processes
, 144

Laboratories
, 15, 21, 30

Law
, 46, 50, 149

Leadership
, 122–123

and collaboration, modeling
, 105

Leading for change
, 120

community-owned infrastructure
, 122

leadership and collaboration
, 122–123

new business models
, 120–122

Level of Service (LOS)
, 46

Librarians
, 11, 62–64, 66–67, 70, 74, 146

Library Information Technology unit
, 108

Library/libraries
, 10, 16, 35–36, 61

community
, 10, 64, 70

publishers
, 105, 117, 119, 122

specialized
, 10, 61, 149

Limitations
, 8, 10, 41, 72, 121, 145, 147–149

Linked data
, 7–8, 150

Literature

scholarly
, 68, 111–112

searching
, 62

Management
, 17, 21–22, 33, 35, 62–63, 73

Marketing
, 74, 136

Marketing & Outreach
, 107

Maturity/level of services
, 144

Measurements
, 8, 50, 85–86, 140, 146, 150

Measures, citation based
, 106, 109, 119

Mendeley
, 82

Metadata
, 7, 18, 24, 28, 33, 35

Methodologies
, 48–49, 148, 150

Metric literacy
, 145, 147, 149

Metric misuse
, 9

Metric Tide, The
, 147

Metrics (see also Research impact metrics;Scholarly metrics; Site visit team metrics (SVT metrics))

analysis
, 20, 25, 27–28, 30–31, 33, 35

journal-level
, 9, 63–65, 71

at NCAR library
, 17–18

new
, 39–55, 147, 149–151

tide
, 123

Toolkit
, 124

traditional
, 30–31, 74

Michalek, Andrea
, 7

Michigan Journal of Medicine
, 114

Michigan Publishing
, 105, 106, 111

Deep Blue
, 117–120

future directions
, 123–124

journals
, 114–117

leading for change
, 120–123

monographs
, 108–114

U-M Library
, 106–107

Michigan Publishing Services (MPS)
, 105–108, 116

Michigan Research Experts
, 118–119

Mini-AIRs
, 69

Mission
, 16, 61, 131, 143, 148

Models, computational
, 22, 26–27

Money
, 46

Monographs
, 10, 105–106, 108

compliance
, 108–111

defiance
, 111–114

publishers
, 106, 113

Moving Ahead for Progress in 21st Century Act (MAP-21)
, 45, 47

Multimodal assessment
, 45–46

Museums
, 127–128

National Ambient Air Quality Standards
, 60

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
, 10, 15–16

analysis
, 34

collaborative activities
, 23

fact sheet
, 25

managing
, 33–34

metrics at NCAR library
, 17–18

planning
, 33

reporting
, 34–35

scientists
, 16–17

supercomputer community metrics
, 18–21

supercomputer metrics outcomes
, 20–21

National Center for Computational Toxicology
, 61

National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)
, 46

National Exposure Research Laboratory
, 61

National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
, 61

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
, 148

National Institute of Standards and Technology
, 145

National Institutes of Health Library (NIH Library)
, 44, 145–146

National Risk Management Research Laboratory
, 61

National Science Foundation (NSF)
, 15, 42, 131–132

site visit team metrics
, 21–27

Natural history museum
, 11, 129, 131, 136

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC)
, 11, 129

Naysayers
, 146–147

NCAR Annual Report (NAR)
, 17

NCAR Library
, 15–17

metrics case studies
, 18–31

scholarly metrics workflow
, 31–35

Network analysis
, 4, 72, 145

New business models
, 105, 120–122

“New” metrics
, 149–151

News
, 82

media
, 130

NIH Library
, 145–146

Non-human resources
, 18

Normalization techniques
, 40

Office of Air and Radiation
, 61

Office of Research and Development (ORD)
, 61, 73

Office of Science and Technology ()
, 44

Office of Scientific Research and development ()
, 42

Open access
, 8, 10, 114, 120–122

journals
, 105

monographs
, 107

scholarship
, 143

Open Book Publishers (OBP)
, 112–113

Open Ebook project
, 122

Open peer review
, 7–8

Open Syllabus project
, 7, 113

OpenSky
, 18

ORCID
, 54–55, 123, 148

Organization

benefits for
, 149

peer
, 106

social sector
, 50

Original scholarly research
, 141

“Out of the box” resources
, 144–145

Outcomes
, 15, 18–20, 24, 36, 50

Output, research
, 1–2, 8, 11, 15, 41, 44, 46–47, 54–55, 108, 118, 120, 131–132, 140–141, 144, 146, 149–150

Outreach
, 127

Parent organization
, 10, 143, 148–149

Partisan Gerrymandering and Construction of American Democracy (Engstrom)
, 111

Peer organizations
, 106

Peer review
, 8, 40, 107, 147

blind
, 8

journals
, 127

open
, 8

print and online journal
, 128–129

publications
, 128

Peer Reviewed Journals
, 127

Peer-reviewed journal articles (PRJAs)
, 1, 6–7, 143, 146

Performance goals
, 45

Performance measurement
, 45

Performance outcomes
, 21

Philosophers’ Imprint
, 107–108

Planning, strategic
, 35, 128

PLoS Medicine
, 40

Plum Analytics
, 7, 63

“PlumPrint”
, 7, 72

PlumX
, 7, 68

Policies, public
, 7, 42

Policy documents
, 7, 65, 72, 82, 106, 109, 113, 130, 132

Policy makers
, 137

Presentations
, 21, 33, 73, 109, 129–130, 136, 141, 146

Preservation
, 118, 127

Primary scholarly publishing unit
, 105

Pritchard, Alan
, 3

PRJAs (peer-reviewed journal articles)
, 1, 6–7, 143, 146

Process improvement
, 26

Process refinement
, 26

Product development
, 65

AIR
, 68–69

next cycle of ideation
, 67–68

RIR
, 65–67

Productivity, researcher
, 6, 48

Programs, educational
, 129

Project management
, 27, 51

Project-specific publication metrics
, 31

Projects
, 11, 27, 29–30

Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (2018)
, 131–132

PTA (Public Transportation Account)
, 47–48

PTA/SB1 project, documenting
, 50–51

PTS/SB1 projects, tracking
, 51–54

Public engagement
, 55, 132, 136

Public Transportation Account (PTA)
, 47

Publication metrics
, 22–23, 27–28, 31, 34

Publications sets
, 22, 32, 34

Publications-per-dollar
, 28, 30

Publications-per-dollar metric
, 28

Publishers
, 15, 117, 121–122

scholarly
, 111

Publishing
, 18, 30, 105, 122

electronic
, 1, 6, 108

scientific
, 40

Publishing peer-reviewed scholarly monographs
, 105

Publons
, 8

PubMed
, 114

Pure science
, 1

Qualitative measures
, 2

Quantitative measures
, 2

Rankings, percentile
, 4

Rankings, weighted
, 4

ReadCube
, 109

REF 2014
, 44

References
, 52, 65, 66

cited
, 3, 6

Requestors of impact metrics
, 145

Research

activities
, 15–18, 43, 48, 50, 127–128, 130, 133, 137

agenda
, 2, 41

areas
, 22, 43, 66, 68, 145

articles
, 67, 108, 119, 129–130, 136, 138–139, 141

assessment
, 13, 44, 51, 53, 123

centers
, 47–48, 51, 55

cycle
, 2, 7, 150

data services
, 108

dissemination
, 8

evaluation
, 4, 146, 150–151

findings
, 51

funding
, 39, 44

groups
, 21, 39–40

institutions
, 128, 140

library
, 34–35

metrics in evaluation
, 148

organizations
, 11, 15, 30, 33, 35, 39, 61

outputs
, 1–2, 8, 11, 15, 41, 44, 46–47, 54–55, 108, 118, 120, 131–132, 140–141, 144, 146, 149–150

portfolio
, 53, 55

productivity
, 48

programs
, 19, 39, 43–47, 49, 51

projects
, 7, 9, 39, 43, 47, 49, 53, 106, 129

Symposium
, 146

Research Excellence Framework (REF)
, 43–44, 106

Research impact
, 1–2, 39–44, 62–63, 73

services
, 11, 59, 62–63, 67, 72–74, 145–146

Research impact metrics (see also Scholarly metrics)
, 1, 71, 106, 108, 114, 120, 124

benefits for greater organization
, 149

benefits for information center
, 149

best practices
, 148

challenges
, 144–145

divergence
, 143–144

efforts at regulation
, 147–148

influencers and sources
, 2–3

“new” metrics
, 149–151

spread of scholarly metrics in specialized settings
, 9–10

Research Impact Reports (RIRs)
, 65–70, 73, 76–77

Research information management (RIM)
, 118–119

Research objects, non-traditional
, 119

Resource allocation
, 1–2

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
, 60

Revenue-generating business
, 121

Risk and Technology Reviews (RTRs)
, 62

Samvera Fedora framework
, 108

SB-743
, 46

SB
, 1, 47, 48, 52–53

Scholarly achievement
, 148

Scholarly activities
, 16, 35, 70

Scholarly communication
, 16

Scholarly impact
, 2, 16, 18, 24, 39, 116, 128

Scholarly metrics
, 3, 6, 8, 15–16

establishment
, 39–44

lessons learning on future of
, 35–36

NCAR Library Metrics Case Studies
, 18–31

NCAR library scholarly metrics workflow
, 31–35

technological enablers of
, 36

Scholarly monographs
, 105, 107–108

Scholarly output
, 5–8, 10, 19, 105, 118–119, 143–144, 146

Scholarly publications
, 15, 17–19, 41, 109, 129–130

Scholarly publishing
, 52, 62, 106, 117, 121

sustainable
, 105

Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO)
, 107–108

Scholarly research
, 35, 127–128, 130, 141, 150

Scholars
, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 16, 107, 129, 146

Scholarship
, 1–2, 16, 36, 62, 105, 108, 113, 116, 120, 122, 143

peer-reviewed
, 17

Sci2
, 72

Science and Technology for America’s Reinvestment Measuring EffecTs of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science (STAR METRICS®)
, 44

Scientific knowledge
, 42, 44

Scientists
, 2, 9–11, 16, 23, 61–62, 149

Scientology
, 3

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
, 4, 150

Scopus
, 2–6, 15, 41, 49, 109, 111, 114–115, 118

Searching, patent
, 67

Self-citations
, 4

Self-defeating cycle
, 114–115

Shepard’s Citations
, 3

Site visit team metrics (SVT metrics)
, 21

high-level metrics profile
, 23

lessons learning
, 26–27

outcomes
, 24–26

Social media
, 6–7, 16, 28, 128, 130, 136–137, 140, 150

Social Science Citation Index (Garfield)
, 2–3

Social sciences
, 2–3, 10–11, 105, 109, 119, 124, 145

Social sector organizations
, 50

Societal impact of academic research
, 42–43

Societal impacts
, 42–43

Software
, 18–19, 22, 25, 27–29

citation of
, 28, 146

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
, 4

Special libraries
, 10

Specialized research impact services
, 145–146

Staff skill sets
, 144

Stakeholders
, 9–11, 26, 32–35, 41, 46–47, 49–50, 52–53, 55, 74, 106, 114, 117, 122, 144, 148–149

Standardized identifiers, lack of
, 144

Standards, disciplinary
, 6

STAR metrics
, 44

STEM fields
, 115, 119, 123–124

Subjects/objects evaluation
, 143

Supercomputer
, 10, 35

community metrics
, 18–21

Superfund program
, 60

Systems
, 16, 33, 40–41, 54, 109, 119

Technical resources
, 144

Technological enablers of scholarly metrics
, 36

Technology
, 10, 15, 32, 34, 41, 61, 107, 132, 143, 145

Time
, 44–45

Tissue distribution and urinary excretion of inorganic arsenic
, 93–94

Tool

analytic
, 128

bibliometric
, 10

evaluative
, 150

Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)
, 107, 122

Toxic Substance Control Act
, 60

Traditional citation-based approaches
, 147

Traditional modes of publishing
, 117–118

Traditional scholarly metrics
, 41

Transportation
, 44–46

Transportation research
, 46, 49, 51–52, 55, 144

Transportation Research Board (TRB)
, 46, 51

TRID
, 51

Twitter
, 82, 130, 139–140

Tyranny of Metrics, The
, 8

UC Berkeley
, 10, 39

UC Los Angeles (UCLA)
, 39

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
, 11, 45, 59–60, 104

bibliometrics at EPA
, 62–65

Library Network
, 61

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
, 16, 18–19, 27

University of California Institute of Transportation Studies (UC-ITS)
, 39, 47, 50–55

University of Michigan (U-M)
, 105

Library
, 106–107, 120

Press
, 106–107

Transportation Research Institute
, 108

University of Michigan Press (UMP)
, 10, 106–107, 112–113

US Environmental Protection Agency’s Library at Research Triangle Park Library (EPA-RTP Library)
, 59

agency of evolving priorities
, 60–61

article distribution by research category
, 79

biases/limitations
, 70–72

bibliometrics at EPA
, 62–65

challenges
, 69–70

citations each year in web of science
, 78

future outlook
, 72–74

highest scoring Altmetric articles
, 82

JCR metrics for top journals
, 81

product development
, 65–69

RIR
, 76–77

in support of research
, 61–62

top highly cited articles in web of science
, 83–96

top journals by JCR category ranking
, 80

Usage data
, 112–113, 117, 122–123

Usage statistics
, 106

USDOT
, 47, 51, 54–55

User education
, 145

Value
, 3, 6, 31, 35, 48, 52–53, 117, 120–121, 131, 136, 140, 149

Variations, h-index
, 5–6

Visualization, data
, 64, 66, 68

Web analytics
, 1, 112, 147

Web of Science (WoS)
, 3–4, 18, 24, 40–41, 49, 63–65, 72, 78, 114

API
, 67

highly cited articles in
, 83–96

Webometrics
, 6

Wikipedia
, 7, 82, 130, 140

Word cloud
, 21

Workflow process
, 21, 31–32

Workforce development
, 42, 55