from Part IV - Appraisal
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 March 2020
Evaluating the impact of a work, scholar, or department is a longstanding practice in the academy. Recent advances in computation and database access have increased the ease of quantifying many impact measures. These advances hold the potential to approach systematically questions that have previously been treated in an ad hoc or individual manner. Extant systems, however, contain a variety of shortcomings and have the potential to exacerbate existing inequalities and biases. This chapter assesses the current state of impact metrics and considers the limitations on this information.
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