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The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators
(Peter Vinkler, Woodhead Publishing Limited-Chandos Publishing, 2009)

"Aimed at academics, academic managers and administrators, professionals in scientometrics, information scientists and science policy makers at all levels. 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. The book 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 quantitative aspects of impact of scientific publications measured by citation indicators."

(source: liste Sigmetrics)

Tiens, Elsevier se lance dans la bibliométrie cartographique... C'est Thomson/ISI qui doit être content...

Elsevier Launches SciVal Spotlight

"SciVal Spotlight uses an innovative visualization technique to produce customized maps that provide graphical views of an institution's performance over time and across scientific fields, focusing on specific topical areas. By pinpointing a university's topical strengths and identifying leading researchers and institutions in each area, the tool is designed to help academic decision-makers optimize funding allocations and enhance hiring and collaboration decisions. [...]"

(source: DigitalKoans, 30/06/09)

Au menu du vol. 8 (juin 2008) d'Ethics In Science And Enviromental Politics (ESEP, éd. Inter Research):

The Use And Misuse Of Bibliometric Indices In Evaluating Scholarly Performance

- 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

- Escape from the impact factor

- Lost in publication: how measurement harms science

- Hidden dangers of a ‘citation culture’

- The siege of science

- The economics of post-doc publishing

- Chasing after the high impact

- Challenges for scientometric indicators: data demining, knowledge flows measurements and diversity issues

- Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis

- Re-interpretation of ‘influence weight’ as a citation-based Index of New Knowledge (INK)

- Benefitting from bibliometry

- Using a balanced approach to bibliometrics: quantitative performance measures in the Australian Research Quality Framework + Erratum

- Citation counts for research evaluation: standards of good practice for analyzing bibliometric data and presenting and interpreting results

- Validating research performance metrics against peer rankings

Via liste Dig_Lib

CitEc "is an experimental autonomous citation index, that is, it is a software system which is able to automatically extract references out of the full texts of documents and create links between citing references and cited papers.

With its last update, the CitEc database has reached almost three million references and more than one million citations between documents available in RePEc. This is an important threshold but still is far of being a complete set of citations."

Via The RePEc Blog

Scopus va permettre, à partir de janvier 2008, de retrouver de manière aisée l'ensemble du corpus bibliographique d'une institution donnée. L'utilité d'une telle fonctionnalité est certes évidente. L'efficacité, quant à elle, dépendra - comme chez leurs collègues d'ISI - du niveau de qualité des données d'affiliation des organisations...

Via ResourceShelf

Le poids lourd ISI doit désormais compter avec la "concurrence" de Scopus. Il ne faudrait pas l'oublier, à l'heure où certains classements internationaux se basent sur ce dernier (et dans lesquels classements, certains perdent des plumes, et pour cause).

A lire cet article paru dans The Charleston Advisor: Using Scopus to Analyze Citations.

Via Antoinette

Lutz Bornmann, Rüdiger Mutz, Hans-Dieter Daniel, The b index as a measure of scientific excellence. A promising supplement to the h index:

"We propose the b index as a measure of scientific excellence at the micro and meso levels, as a promising supplement to the h index and its variants (such as g index and R index)."

Via liste Sigmetrics

Sandstrom, Ulf, Sandstrom, Erik (2007), A metric for academic performance applied to Australian universities 2001-2004. (déposé sur E-LIS)

"In a series of papers, published during second half of the 1980s, the Budapest group (Braun, Glänzel, Telcs and Schubert) proposed that bibliometric distributions are to be characterized as Waring distributions. We use their methodology in order to establish a reference value for academic production within macro classes. From this we develop a combined performance model for academic research and apply the model to Australian research. This model take advantage of, first, field normalized publication rates (the productivity dimension) and, second, field normalized citation rates (the quality dimension). Based on ISI-data the performance of Australian universities is depicted in a more resource-efficient way than competing models."

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Prosper signale la parution d'une newsletter, Research Trends, publiée par Scopus (Elsevier). [communiqué]

Wan, Jin-kun, Hua, Ping-huan, Rousseau, Ronald (2007), The pure h-index: calculating an author’s h-index by taking co-authors into account. (déposé sur E-LIS)

"We introduce a new Hirsch-type index for a scientist. This so-called pure h-index takes the actual number of co-authors, and the scientist’s relative position in the byline into account. The transformation from h to the pure h-index can also be applied to the R-index, leading to the pure R-index. This index takes the number of collaborators, possibly the rank in the byline and the actual number of citations into account."

[ voir page thématique Bibliométrie ]