What constitutes valuable scholarship? The use of altmetrics in promotion and tenure

Konkiel, Stacy, Sugimoto, Cassidy R. and Williams, Sierra (2016) What constitutes valuable scholarship? The use of altmetrics in promotion and tenure. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (24 Mar 2016). Website.

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The traditional ways in which promotion and tenure committees assess scholarship — whether quantitatively or qualitatively — are either inappropriate or insufficient for capturing its true value, argue Stacy Konkiel, Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Sierra Williams. Altmetrics can help fill in the knowledge gaps, but ultimately will only provide a limited view. Richer narratives can always be found by digging deeper into the qualitative data behind the metrics.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
Additional Information:	© 2016 LSE Impact of Social Sciences © CC BY 3.0
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	01 Jun 2016 10:03
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 14:51
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/66697

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