Bibliometrics: A Potential Decision Making Aid in Hiring, Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion Decisions Gary Holden, DSW Gary Rosenberg, PhD Kathleen Barker, PhD SUMMARY. The assessment of scholarship assumes a central role in the evaluation of individual faculty, educational programs and academic fields. Because the production and assessment of scholarship is so central to the faculty role, it is incumbent upon decision makers to strive to make assess- ments of scholarship fair and equitable. This paper will focus on an ap- proach to the assessment of the quantity and impact of the most important subset of an individual’s scholarship–peer-reviewed journal articles. The Gary Holden is Professor, New York University. Gary Rosenberg is Edith J. Baerwald Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Kathleen Barker is Professor of Psychology, The City University of New York: Medgar Evers College. Address correspondence to Gary Holden, DSW, Room 407, MC: 6112, New York University, School of Social Work, 1 Washington Square North, New York, NY 10003 (E-mail: gary.holden@nyu.edu). [Haworth co-indexing entry note]: “Bibliometrics: A Potential Decision Making Aid in Hiring, Reappoint- ment, Tenure and Promotion Decisions.” Holden, Gary, Gary Rosenberg, and Kathleen Barker. Co-published si- multaneously in Social Work in Health Care (The Haworth Social Work Practice Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc.) Vol. 41, No. 3/4, 2005, pp. 67-92; and: Bibliometrics in Social Work (ed: Gary Holden, Gary Rosenberg, and Kathleen Barker) The Haworth Social Work Practice Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc., 2005, pp. 67-92. Single or multiple copies of this article are available for a fee from The Haworth Document Deliv- ery Service [1-800-HAWORTH, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (EST). E-mail address: docdelivery@haworthpress.com]. Available online at http://www.haworthpress.com/web/SWHC  2005 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. doi:10.1300/J010v41n03_03 67