Grand Challenges in Measuring and Characterizing Scholarly Impact

TL;DR

This paper discusses the major challenges in measuring and understanding scholarly impact, emphasizing the need for improved methods to evaluate and communicate scientific knowledge across various stakeholders.

Contribution

It identifies key grand challenges in assessing scholarly impact and proposes directions for developing advanced quantitative and qualitative evaluation approaches.

Findings

Highlights the importance of measuring scholarly impact accurately

Identifies gaps in current evaluation methods

Suggests future research directions for impact assessment

Abstract

The constantly growing body of scholarly knowledge of science, technology, and humanities is an asset of the mankind. While new discoveries expand the existing knowledge, they may simultaneously render some of it obsolete. It is crucial for scientists and other stakeholders to keep their knowledge up to date. Policy makers, decision makers, and the general public also need an efficient communication of scientific knowledge. Several grand challenges concerning the creation, adaptation, and diffusion of scholarly knowledge, and advance quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of scholarly knowledge are identified.