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Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: Uses and Abuses (History and Foundations of Information Science)
Yves Gingras
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Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation and university rankings. The research evaluation market is booming. Ranking, metrics, h-index, and impact factors are reigning buzzwords. Government and research administrators want to evaluate everything-teachers, professors, training programs, universities-using quantitative indicators. Among the tools used to measure research excellence, bibliometrics-aggregate data on publications and citations-has become dominant. Bibliometrics is hailed as an objective measure of research quality, a quantitative measure more useful than ... Read more
Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation and university rankings. The research evaluation market is booming. Ranking, metrics, h-index, and impact factors are reigning buzzwords. Government and research administrators want to evaluate everything-teachers, professors, training programs, universities-using quantitative indicators. Among the tools used to measure research excellence, bibliometrics-aggregate data on publications and citations-has become dominant. Bibliometrics is hailed as an objective measure of research quality, a quantitative measure more useful than ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
History and Foundations of Information Science
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262035125
SKU
V9780262035125
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About Yves Gingras
Yves Gingras is Professor and Canada Research Chair in History and Sociology of Science, Department of History, at Universite du Quebec a Montreal.
Reviews for Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: Uses and Abuses (History and Foundations of Information Science)
...this is a great first read for anyone new to bibliometrics, and a great resource to anyone established in the field. -The Bibliomagician