SPECIALTY GRAND CHALLENGE ARTICLE Front. Libr. Inf. Sci | doi: 10.3389/flis.2016.00001 Grand Challenges in Measuring and Characterizing Scholarly Impact Chaomei Chen 1* 1 College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, USA Setting the study of scholarly metrics and analytics on a holistic and integrative stage is a step towards fostering creative and impactful interactions between distinct perspectives and viewpoints. http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00812