Disciplinary Impact
The research across disciplines is related, however, there are fundamental differences in measuring the impact in different disciplines that should not be overlooked.
- The Sciences (Biomedical sciences; Mathematics; Physics; Computer Science): mainly articles; monographs (in the fields of mathematics and physics); importance of the journal impact factor; altmetrics (becoming popular among biomedical sciences).
- The Social Sciences (Communications; Political science; History): both qualitative (history, communication) and quantitative methods (psychology); journal articles output; altmetrics (not very popular, except in communications).
- Arts and humanities (English and the Humanities; Dance and Arts): challenging for impact measurement due to the creative aspect of output; mostly books; altmetrics can be beneficial.
