Evaluating Scholarship and Research Impact: History, Practices, and Policy Development

This book probes the dynamics of academic research and scholarship evaluation. Readers will learn about scholarly metric evolution, impact factors, disruptive technologies, and a myriad of forces affecting policy development at institutions through an examination of widely-used measurements and growing concerns about their influence.

Jeffrey W. Alstete is Professor of Management and Business Administration at Iona College, USA. He teaches business policy and strategy, entrepreneurship, international management, managerial decision-making, and other topics. Professor Alstete is chair of the Intellectual Contributions Committee and is the author of five books including Benchmarking in Higher Education and Revenue Generation Strategies: Leveraging Higher Education Resources for Increase Income. Nicholas J. Beutell is Professor of Management and Business Administration at Iona College, USA. He was Dean of the School of Business for ten years, prior chair of the Institutional Review Board at Iona College, and has over 40 years of experience as scholar, professor, and administrator. Professor Beutell is a widely recognized and highly cited scholar on work-family and life satisfaction. John P. Meyer is Professor and Chair of Management and Business Administration at Iona College, USA. His research includes knowledge management, innovation and experiential learning. He has published research on intellectual capital and patent citations which, as representations of innovation quality and value, are analogous to the way scholarly citations are now being used to evaluate research quality and value.