Measuring Scholarly Communication
A special issue of Publications (ISSN 2304-6775).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2014)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: scholarly communication; citation analysis; information technologies; information seeking behavior; information dissemination; reference
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This special issue titled “Measuring Scholarly Communication” is open to contributions on assessing and measuring scholarly publications, presentations and other formal and informal modes of interaction, including but not limited to electronic formats, within the scientific community. The notion of the “invisible college” as defined by Solla Price in the early 1960s might have remained the same at its core; however, scientists’ communication and collaboration patterns might have changed, we presume, drastically with the development of electronic channels. Therefore, this issue has been established to welcome research exploring and presenting methods and results that will enlighten the difficult road and task of going beyond the established and traditional appraising of scholarly communication.
Dr. Simon Aristeguieta-Trillos
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- measuring
- evaluation
- assessing
- quantitative methodology
- scholarly communication
- qualitative research
- communication channels
- social media
- electronic communication
- scientific information,
- web-metrics and science-metrics
