By the Numbers: Bibliometrics and Altmetrics as Measures of Faculty Impact in the Field of Religion. is a research paper published in Theological Librarianship (2015). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.518. It has been cited 6 times, with 6 citing works in its 1-hop citation network.
Citation analysis is a staple in the sciences for measuring the impact of faculty members' output, but heavy reliance on monographs as a vehicle of scholarly communication diminished the value of bibliometrics in theological disciplines. The digital revolution, however, created a seismic shift for citation analysis and has given rise to altmetrics. Overviews of altmetrics and bibliometrics are provided and a series of questions posed to encourage ongoing discussions about the value of these tools in theological contexts.
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Base Score Contribution
0.292
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.226
From 6 citing papers with measurable signal
DataRank blends this paper's own citation count with the influence of the papers that cite it. Here, roughly 56% comes from its base citations and 44% from the citation network (6 citing papers contributed measurable signal).
Citers are pulled from OpenAlex sorted by cited_by_count:descand capped per paper, so when the cap binds we keep the highest-signal references and the score is reproducible across reruns.
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