Scholarly metrics baseline: A survey of faculty knowledge, use, and opinion about scholarly metrics

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 150-170

  DeSanto, Dan ^a   Nichols, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

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EID: 85015228432     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.78.2.150     Document Type: Review

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