The assessment of scholarly books in China: A short review

Abstract

As a unique type of scientific production, the assessment of scholarly book has been recently revalued under the trending Chinese technology policy. This article performs a survey of different attempts applied to various assessment problems for scholarly book, such as comprehensive assessment framework, the localization of international impact measurements the improvement measures, and the theorical recognition from different angles. The paper analyzes the questions of what, who, and how to reach an eventual integration with scholarly book assessment platforms. The conclusions indicate that the exquisite categorization and the negotiated criteria framework are firstly needed to be studied in order to initiate an assessment project of scholarly book in China.