Download or read book Evaluating Scholarship and Research Impact written by Jeffrey W. Alstete and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book probes the dynamics of academic research and scholarship evaluation. Readers will learn about scholarly metric evolution, impact factors, disruptive technologies, and a myriad of forces affecting policy development at institutions through an examination of widely-used measurements and growing concerns about their influence.