Vinkler The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-78063-025-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Chandos Learning and Teaching Series

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 quantitative aspects of impact of scientific publications measured by citation indicators. - Written by a highly knowledgeable and well-respected scientist in the field - Provides practical and realistic quantitative methods for evaluating scientific publication activities of individuals, teams, countries and journals - Gives standardized descriptions and classification of the main categories of evaluative scientometrics

Dr. Peter Vinkler is Scientific Secretary of the Chemical Research Center, Budapest and Director of the Scientific Publication Data Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He worked as Head of the Biocomplex Research Department of the Chemical Research Center for several years. He has published extensively on scientometrics and information science, primarily on the indicators used for the evaluation of publication activities of individuals and teams. He serves as Associate Editor of Scientometrics and regularly reviews publications also for the Journal of Informetrics and Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. In 2009 he was awarded the Derek de Solla Price Medal for his outstanding contributions to the field of quantitative studies of science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vinkler, Peter

Leseproben

List of figures and tables
Figures 6.1 Recent impact of publications 66 6.2 Subsequent impact of publications 67 6.3 Parallel impact of publications 67 7.1 Relationship between Relative Publication Strategy (RPS) and Relative Subfield Citedness (RW) 98 9.1 The Reference Threshold Model. Relationship between the Relative Frequency (%) of motives toward referencing and the Normalised Reference Threshold 151 13.1 Scientometric model of the Institutionalisation of Scientometric Information (ISI-S model) 247 Tables 3.1 Type and aim of the application of complex indicators with reference standard and units of items in the respective sets 16 3.2 Some practical examples of specific indicators 17 4.1 Relative Publication Growth (RPG) indices depending on the ratio of annual number of papers (time-period: 2 years) 29 4.2 Relative Publication Growth (RPG) values calculated with different relevance periods (2, 5, 10 years) and Mean Annual Percentage Rate (MAPR) values for several databases 31 4.3 Percentage share of publications (P%), Mean Annual Percentage Rate (MAPR) and mean Relative Publication Growth, RPG(2), values for subfields of chemistry applying data from Chemical Abstracts between 1970 and 1999 33 4.4 Mean Relative Publication Growth, RPG(2), and Mean Annual Percentage Rate (MAPR) values for papers referenced in Chemical Abstracts in different periods 34 5.1 Probability for citedness as calculated by Lehman et al. (2003) 39 5.2 Examples of the size (measured as number of journals and papers) and mean number of references per paper influencing the GF of journals by field 41 5.3 Number of papers (P) and references (R) and Garfield Factors (GF) of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Organic Chemistry between 1981 and 2005 43 5.4 Mean age and percentage share of references (R%) in papers of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1980, 1990, 1999 and 2005 44 5.5 Model for the relationship between Relative Publication Growth (RPG) and mean number of references (r) to the Chance for Citedness (CC) for fields with different Publication Velocity (PV) 46 5.6 Normalised Garfield Factors (nGF) and normalised Specific Impact Contribution (nSIC) indices are equivalent measures within any set of journals (data for representative journals of physical chemistry) 49 5.7 Pearson's correlation coefficients (r) between the total number of citations received (C) and number of papers published (P) and GF of journals by subfield 52 5.8 Mean number of papers published and citations obtained by authors of different category 53 5.9 Mean Current Contribution Index (m102CCI) and mean Garfield Factor (mGF) calculated for journals by field 56 5.10 0 Pearson's correlation coefficients between the number of papers published in 2003-4 (P), the Garfield Factor (GF, 2005) and the Current Contribution Index (CCI, 2005) of journals by field 57 5.11 1 The first six journals ranked by Garfield (Impact) Factor (GF) in physical chemistry, polymer science and neuroscience 58 5.12 2 The first six journals ranked by the Current Contribution Index (102CCI) in physical chemistry, polymer science and neuroscience 59 5.13 3 Mean h-and pv-indices of journals in different fields 60 5.14 4 Some indicators and methods for characterising the impact of scientific journals 61 6.1 Annual Citedness (AC, 1995 and 1993) and Annual Citedness Rates (ACR, 1995-2004 and 1984-1993) for several science fields and for the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and for 55 chemical journals, respectively 70 6.2 Examples for calculating mean Annual Citedness Rates (ACR) for the asynchronised case (Recent Impact Method, RIM) 71 6.3 Example for calculating the mean Annual Citedness Rate (ACR) for the synchronised case (Parallel Impact Method, PIM) 72 6.4 Citedness indicators calculated with different time windows from different data 73 6.5 Pearson's correlation coefficients of GF and JPC data referring to different time windows (see Table 6.4) 73 6.6 Examples for predicting the mean number of citations over 5 or 10 years for papers in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (CJ) and Tetrahedron (CT) using a yearly decrease rate of 6 per cent 76 6.7 Mean Estimated and Observed Number of Citations (ENC and ONC, respectively) over 5 and 10 years for papers published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Tetrahedron in 1993 77 7.1 Percentage distribution of publications (U%) and citations (C%) of different publication forms and Publication Citedness (C/U) by scientific field 84 7.2 Examples for calculating weighted Journal Paper Citedness (JPC) 90 7.3 Share in publications and citations (in percentage), Relative Citation Rate (RCR), Relative Subfield Citedness (RW) and Relative Publication Strategy (RPS) indicators for some countries in all science fields combined in different time-periods 101 7.4 Pearson's correlation coefficients and statistical data for RW, RPS and RCR indicators for 44 countries, taking into account all science fields combined 102 7.5 Publication Strategy (PS), Relative Publication Strategy (RPS) and Relative Subfield Citedness (RW) of some institutes (2000-4) (Vinkler, 2006) 102 7.6 Relative impact indicators calculated by different methods 104 7.7 Relative publication impact indicators (Table 7.6) calculated for research teams (Vinkler, 1996b) 106 7.8 Formulas for and relations between the relative publication impact indicators 108 7.9 Mean number of journal papers (P), total number of citations (C), h-index, p-index and Relative Citation Rate (RCR) for several members and non-members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 117 7.10 Pearson's correlation coefficients of the indicators studied 118 7.11 Detailed Journal Paper Citedness (JPC) data of four scientists for calculating h and p indices 119 7.12 h-index and p-index of several outstanding scientists 121 7.13 3 Pearson's correlation coefficients between the indicators studied for scientists in chemistry 122 8.1 Changes in the mean number of references in papers of selected journals between 1980 and 2005 126 8.2 Mean number of references per paper (R/P) and Garfield Factor (GF) of selected journals (see Table 8.1) between 1980 and 1998 and in 2005 127 8.3 Mean Information (IS), Publication (PS), Evaluation (AS) and Reference Strategy (RS) of researchers by subfield (i.e. mean of the weighted GFs of journals read, IS; used for publishing, PS; acknowledged, AS; and referenced, RS) 128 8.4 Mean Relative Reference Strategy...