SPEC Kit 346: Scholarly Output Assessment Activities  · 101
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Using Bibliometric (Publication and Citation) Indicators to Demonstrate Impact (slides)
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/20647/1/Bibliometrics_Seminar_Feb2014_DSchol.ppt
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USING BIBLIOMETRIC (PUBLICATION AND CITATION)
INDICATORS TO DEMONSTRATE IMPACT
Robin Kear and Berenika M. Webster
ULS Lunch and Learn
February 20, 2014
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OUTLINE
K Evolution of Metrics; Caveats�
K Current Sources of Metrics�
K Library can assist faculty with understanding:�
K  individual impact�
K  journal impact�
K  institutional impact�
K Discussion
EARLY METRICS
1  Counting outputs
1  3rd century BC number of items held in the Great Library of Alexandria was 490,000�
1  In 1837 Royal Library in Paris held 620,000 and public libraries in the US 1,294,000�
1  In 1841 numbers of volumes in libraries were normalized by population (Munich 750
volumes per 100 people; Florence 313; Paris 143 and London 20)
1  Counting usage, incl. collections development�
K  In 1874 an article claimed that in American public libraries ¾ of the circulation was
“sensational food”==B9.?I0A6;.;1;9F¼ to “literary food”
K  1927 Gross and Gross from Pomona College analyzed references in one volume of Jln
of Am Chem Soc and recommended a list of 22 journals (12 non-English) to become a
core of the college chemistry collection
EARLY METRICS

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;@062;A6I012C29=:2;A(Cattel,1906)
K Measuring civilizational development through
volume of published outputs (Humle, 1923)
K Mapping scholarly disciplines by analyzing
citation patterns (Fussler, 1948)
K H"2.@B?6;4@062;02LB@6;4@062;A6I0A9@
(DeSolla Price, 1963)
EVOLUTION OF METRICS
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of ideas index”�
1  Information retrieval�
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EVOLUTION OF METRICS
Sociology of science and the Matthew effect�
(Matthew xiii.7)

For whosoever hath, to him
shall be given, and he shall
have more abundance: but
whosoever hath not, from
him shall be taken away
even that he hath
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