[Air-L] The Use And Misuse Of Bibliometric Indices In Evaluating Scholarly Performance

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

Colleagues/

 

A Very Important Publication: _The Use And Misuse Of Bibliometric Indices In Evaluating Scholarly Performance_ /  _Ethics In Science And Enviromental Politics_ / Editors: Howard I. Browman, Konstantinos I. Stergiou

 

THEME SECTION: Quantifying the relative performance of individual scholars, groups of scholars, departments, institutions, provinces/states/regions and countries has become an integral part of decision-making over research policy, funding allocations, awarding of grants, faculty hirings, and claims for promotion and tenure. Bibliometric indices (based mainly upon citation counts), such as the h-index and the journal impact factor, are heavily relied upon in such assessments. There is a growing consensus, and a deep concern, that these indices - more-and-more often used as a replacement for the informed judgement of peers - are misunderstood and are, therefore, often misinterpreted and misused. The articles in this ESEP Theme Section present a range of perspectives on these issues. Alternative approaches, tools and metrics that will hopefully lead to a more balanced role for these instruments are presented.

Browman HI, Stergiou KI / INTRODUCTION: Factors and indices are one thing, deciding who is scholarly, why they are scholarly, and the relative value of their scholarship is something else entirely 

Campbell P / Escape from the impact factor 

Lawrence PA / Lost in publication: how measurement harms science 

Todd PA, Ladle RJ / Hidden dangers of a 'citation culture' 

Taylor M, Perakakis P, Trachana V / The siege of science 

Cheung WWL/ The economics of post-doc publishing 

Tsikliras AC/ Chasing after the high impact 

Zitt M, Bassecoulard E/ Challenges for scientometric indicators: data demining, knowledge flows measurements and diversity issues 

Harzing AWK, van der Wal R / Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis 

Pauly D, Stergiou KI / Re-interpretation of 'influence weight' as a citation-based Index of New Knowledge (INK) 

Giske J / Benefitting from bibliometry 

Butler L/ Using a balanced approach to bibliometrics: quantitative performance measures in the Australian Research Quality Framework 

Bornmann L, Mutz R, Neuhaus C, Daniel HD / Citation counts for research evaluation: standards of good practice for analyzing bibliometric data and presenting and interpreting results 

Harnad S / Validating research performance metrics against peer rankings 

(Open Access) Links To Full Text Available Are Available At 

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Regards,

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu

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