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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (162 p.) ill
• Disciplina: 361.3/072/7; 361.30727
• Soggetto topico: Social service - Statistical methods; Bibliometrics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BarkerKathleen <1951-> HoldenGary <1951-> RosenbergGary
• Note generali: "Co-published simultaneously as Social work in health care, volume 41, numbers 3/4 2005"--T.p.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Bibliometrics in social work
• ISBN: 1-136-44207-3; 0-203-05146-7; 1-283-96756-1; 1-136-44200-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996204939503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno