Abstract
This article presents the results of a faculty survey conducted at the University of Vermont during academic year 2014-2015. The survey asked faculty about: familiarity with scholarly metrics, metric seeking habits, help seeking habits, and the role of metrics in their department’s tenure and promotion process. The survey also gathered faculty opinions on how well scholarly metrics reflect the importance of scholarly work and how faculty feel about administrators gathering institutional scholarly metric information. Results point to the necessity of understanding the campus landscape of faculty knowledge, opinion, importance, and use of scholarly metrics before engaging faculty in further discussions about quantifying the impact of their scholarly work.
Keywords
metrics, faculty, altmetrics, scholarly impact, scholarly communication, tenure and promotion
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
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Recommended Citation
DeSanto, Daniel and Nichols, Aaron, "Scholarly Metrics Baseline: A Survey of Faculty Knowledge, Use, and Opinion About Scholarly Metrics" (2017). University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications. 40.
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/libfacpub/40
DOI
10.5860/crl.78.2.150
Notes
Original Publication in College & Research Libraries: Volume: 78, Issue 2, 2017