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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170974603321

Titolo

Bibliometrics in social work / / Gary Holden, Gary Rosenberg, Kathleen Barker, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

1-136-44207-3

0-203-05146-7

1-283-96756-1

1-136-44200-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.) ill

Altri autori (Persone)

HoldenGary

RosenbergGary

BarkerKathleen

Disciplina

361.3/072/7

Soggetti

Social service - Statistical methods

Bibliometrics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2005 by The Haworth Press, Inc.

"Bibliometrics in social work has been co-published simultaneously as Social work in health care, volume 41, numbers 3/4 2005."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Bibliometrics in Social Work; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ABOUT THE EDITORS; Tracing Thought Through Time and Space: A Selective Review of Bibliometrics in Social Work; What Happens to Our Ideas? A Bibliometric Analysis of Articles in Social Work in Health Care in the 1990s; Bibliometrics: A Potential Decision Making Aid in Hiring, Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion Decisions; Following in the Footnotes of Giants: Citation Analysis and Its Discontents; The Paradox of Faculty Publications in Professional Journals; Politics of Personnel and Landscapes of Knowledge

Bibliometrics: The Best Available Information?Bibliometrics and Social Work: A Two-Edged Sword Can Still Be a Blunt Instrument; Shallow Science or Meta-Cognitive Insights: A Few Thoughts on Reflection via Bibliometrics; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bibliometrics in Social Work examiness the cross-disciplinary field of bibliometrics, including the multiple techniques and applications that



have been described in the scholarly literature. Moving beyond this general overview, the authors examine applications of bibliometrics in social work. Subsequent chapters detail how the technique can be used to demonstrate the eventual impact on the field of publications in selected journals. These analyses are conducted using the bibliometric technique referred to as citation analysis. The authors then move on to present what will be a controversial pr