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

With researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in high-profile
international journals, this book explores some of the issues affecting authors on the …

For academic book authors and the institutions assessing their research performance, the
relevance of books is undisputed. In spite of this, the absence of comprehensive …

How to assess research quality in the humanities is an intricate question. Despite the recent
efforts of many initiatives, the measurement and assessment of research quality still faces …

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 …

Purpose–The aim of this study is to analyse the advantages of using an institutional
repository (IR) as a complementary source to evaluate the research output produced by a …

Research assessment in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) is delicate. Assessment
procedures meet strong criticisms from SSH scholars and bibliometric research shows that …

Although large citation databases such as Web of Science and Scopus are widely used in
bibliometric research, they have several disadvantages, including limited availability, poor …

This article reports on a large-scale exercise of classification of journals in the fields of
Humanities and Social Sciences, carried out by the Italian Agency for the Evaluation of …