This book is an authoritative handbook of current topics technologies and methodological
approaches that may be used for the study of scholarly impact. The included methods cover a
range of fields such as statistical sciences scientific visualization network analysis text
mining and information retrieval. The techniques and tools enable researchers to investigate
metric phenomena and to assess scholarly impact in new ways. Each chapter offers an
introduction to the selected topic and outlines how the topic technology or methodological
approach may be applied to metrics-related research. Comprehensive and up-to-date Measuring
Scholarly Impact: Methods and Practice is designed for researchers and scholars interested in
informetrics scientometrics and text mining. The hands-on perspective is also beneficial to
advanced-level students in fields from computer science and statistics to information science.
