Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact Edited by Blaise Cronin, Cassidy R. Sugimoto The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9445.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262323284 Publication date: 2014 A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing w…
Perspectives on the varied challenges posed by big data for health, science, law, commerce, and politics. Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identify linguistic correlations in large corpuses of texts. This book examines big data not as an undifferentiated whole but c…