Research analytics: boosting university productivity and competitiveness through scientometrics

The growth of machines and users of the Internet has led to the proliferation of all sorts of data concerning individuals, institutions, companies, governments, universities and all kinds of known objects and events happening everywhere in daily life.

Scientific knowledge is not an exception to the data boom.

The objective of this book is to assist students, professors, university managers, government, industry and stakeholders in general, helping them to understand which are the main bibliometric databases, what are the key research indicators, and who are the main players in university rankings and the methodologies and approaches that they employ in producing ranking tables.