Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact

There has been a marked increase in interest in metrics in recent years, driven by a desire to gain insights, increase efficiencies and promote change in the scholarly system. At the same time that traditional bibliometric indicators based on citations and publications are gaining wider interest, new alternative web metrics are also emerging that promise to provide new insights into impact and offer greater context to traditional citation-based metrics. At this important point in the development of bibliometrics and scientometrics there is a need for works that can provide an overview of the research in the field, and give a balanced account of the potential...