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Scholarship Impact Metrics

Introduction to scholarship impact metrics and the ways to increase the overall impact.

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Publications Metrics

There are available a variety of traditional and alternative metrics for most of the scholarly outputs.

It is important that scholarship assessment takes in consideration all types of outputs and the metrics differences for each type. It is also important to consider the citations differences between scientific fields.

This guide includes several metrics used for articles, books, journals, and datasets and offer suggestions for additional types of outputs.

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