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The evaluation of research by scientometric indicators
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Aimed at academics, academic managers and administrators, professionals in scientometrics, information scientists and science policy makers at all levels. This book reviews the principles, methods ...
Aimed at academics, academic managers and administrators, professionals in scientometrics, information scientists and science policy makers at all levels. This book reviews the principles, methods and indicators of scientometric evaluation of information processes in science and assessment of the publication activity of individuals, teams, institutes and countries. It provides scientists, science officers, librarians and students with basic and advanced knowledge on evaluative scientometrics. Especially great stress is laid on the methods applicable in practice and on the clarification of quan
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- Creator
- by Péter Vinkler
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st edition
- Oxford : Chandos Pub., 2010
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- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- text file
- ISBNs
- 1843345722, 9781780630250, 1780630255, 9781843345725
- OCLC
- ocn867318561, ocn880677814, ocn827449889
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and indexes.
- English
- Cover; The Evaluation ofResearch byScientometric Indicators; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgement; About the author; List of figures and tables; 1 Introduction; 2 Basic categories of scientometrics; Concluding remarks; 3 Classification of the indicators of evaluative scientometrics; Introduction; Classification scheme of evaluative indicators; Concluding remarks; 4 Publication growth in science; Introduction; Relative publication growth index; Concluding remarks; 5 Scientific eminence of journals: the Garfield Factor and the Current Contribution Index; Introduction
- Standardised description of the Garfield FactorChances for citation and chances for citedness; The Garfield Factor and relative publication growth; Some empirical findings; An empirical model; Towards understanding the Garfield Factor; The GF and the SIC index; Relationship between quantity and quality: growth and specific indices; The Current Contribution Index (CCI); The πv -index; Concluding remarks; 6 The ageing of scientific information; Introduction; Annual citedness and annual citedness rates
- Conversion of Journal Paper Citedness indices or Garfield Factors calculated for different time periodsCalculating the Estimated Number of Citations (ENC) by the Subsequent Impact Method (SIM); Concluding remarks; 7 Scientometric indicators for the assessment of publications; Introduction; Definition and function of comparative indicators of evaluative scientometrics; Relationships between three relative impact indicators (RW, RCR, RPS); The Invitation Paradox; Model for the selection of relative publication impact indicators; Composite scientometric indicators; The h-index and the π-index
- Concluding remarks8 Reference strategy: model of manifested communication through publications; Introduction; Reference strategy; Laws of reference strategy; The model of manifested communication through publications; Concluding remarks; 9 Frequency of and strength of motives in referencing: the Reference Threshold Model; Introduction; The frequency and strength of motives in referencing; Concluding remarks; 10 Research contribution and share of credit of individual authors; Introduction; Distributing credit of publications among co-authors; Concluding remarks
- 11 Standards in scientometric assessmentsIntroduction; Bibliometric factors; Selecting sets of papers and journals as reference standards; Standardisation of citedness indicators using standardised publication and citation time windows; Dependence of JPC on the type of publication; Methods for obtaining absolute reference standards for relative impact indicators; Delineating journals by subject field; Methods for standardising GFs; Methods for determining ordinal rank scores in sets of different size; Standardising part-indicators; Concluding remarks
- 12 Scientometric assessments: application of scientometrics for the purposes of science policy