How research becomes impact: Librarians helping faculty use scholarly metrics to select journals

College and Undergraduate Libraries

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 187-204

  Vinyard, Marc ^a   Colvin, Jaimie Beth ^a  

^a PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altmetrics; Bibliometrics; Faculty Librarian collaboration; Research impact; Scholarly publishing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046036455     PISSN: 10691316     EISSN: 15452530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691316.2018.1464995     Document Type: Article

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