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Scholarly metrics under the microscope : from citation analysis to academic auditing
Title
Scholarly metrics under the microscope : from citation analysis to academic auditing / edited by Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto.
ISBN
9781573874991
157387499X
Publication
Medford, New Jersey : Published on behalf of the Association for Information Science and Technology by Information Today, Inc., [2015]
Physical Description
xii, 963 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
Interest in bibliometrics - the quantitative analysis of publications, authors, bibliographic references, and related concepts - has never been greater, as universities, research councils, national governments, and corporations seek to identify robust indicators of research effectiveness. In Scholarly Metrics Under the Microscope, editors Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto bring together and expertly annotate a wealth of previously published papers, harvested from a wide range of journals and disciplines, that provide critical commentary on the use of metrics, both established and emerging, to assess the quality of scholarship and the impact of research. The expansive overview and analysis presented in this remarkable volume will be welcomed by any scholar or researcher who seeks a deeper understanding of the role and significance of performance metrics in higher education, research evaluation, and science policy.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 30, 2020
Series
ASIS & T monograph series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: the drunk, the keys, and the streetlamp / Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto
Citation indexes for science: a new dimension in documentation through association of ideas (1955) / Eugene Garfield
Fascination or fetishism? / Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto
The need for a theory of citing (1981) / Blaise Cronin
Referencing as persuasion (1977) / G. Nigel Gilbert
Beyond the holy grail: from citation theory to indicator theories (1999) / Paul Wouters
Informetric analyses on the world wide web: methodological approaches to "webometrics" (1997) / Tomas C. Almind and Peter Ingwersen
The new metrics of scholarly authority (2007) / Michael Jensen
Toward a rhopography of scholarly communication (2008) / Blaise Cronin
Scientometrics 2.0: toward new metrics of scholarly impact on the social web (2010) / Jason Priem and Bradley M. Hemminger
Messy matters of meaning and motivation / Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto
Abuses of citation indexing (1967) / Kenneth O. May
The footnote fetish (1977) / Jon Wiener
Citation analysis: queries and caveats (1977) / Alan L. Porter
Do you sincerely want to be cited? or: read before you cite (2006) / Mikhail Simkin and Vwany Roychowdhury
Problems of citation analysis: a critical review (1989) / Michael H. MacRoberts and Barbara R. MacRoberts
No citation analyses please, we're British (1991) / Alun Anderson
Scientific communication
a vanity fair? (1999) / Georg Franck
Coercive citation in academic publishing (2012) / Allen W. Wilhite and Eric A. Fong
Show me data (2007) / Mike Rossner, Heather Van Epps and Emma Hill
The uses and abuses of bibliometrics (2012) / Martin H. Johnson, Jacques Cohen, and Gedis Grudzinskas
Sick of impact factors (2012) / Stephen Curry
The devil is in the details / Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Blaise Cronin
Journal selection for current contents: editorial merit vs. political pressure (1985) / Eugene Garfield
Lost science in the third world (1995) / W. Wayt Gibbs
Opportunities for and limitations of the book citation index (2013) / Juan Gorraiz, Philip J. Purnell and Wolfgang Glänzel
Google's book search: a disaster for scholars (2009) / Geoffrey Nunberg
Using Google Scholar for journal impact factors and the h-index in Nationwide Publishing Assessments in Academia-siren songs and air-raid sirens (2012) / Péter Jacsó
Manipulating Google Scholar citations and Google Scholar metrics: simple, easy and tempting (2012) / Emilio Delgado López-Cózar, Nicolás Robinson-Garcia, and Daniel Torres-Salinas
Novel forms of impact measurement
an empirical assessment (2012) / Paul Wouters and Rodrigo Costas
Critical questions for big data: provocations for a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon (2012) / Danah Boyd and Kate Crawford
Issues of time, credit and peer review (2012) / Diane Harley
Angels on a pinhead / Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Blaise Cronin
An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output (2005) / J.E. Hirsch
Do we need the h index and its variants in addition to standard bibliometric measures (2009) / Lutz Bornmann, Rüdiger Mutz and Hans-Dieter Daniel
A quantitative analysis of indicators of scientific performance (2008) / Sune Lehmann, Andrew D. Jackson and Benny E. Lautrup
The inconsistency of the h-index (2012) / Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck
How can impact factors be improved? (1996) / Eugene Garfield
The number that's devouring science (2005) / Richard Monastersky
"3 ... 2 ... 1 ... impact [factor]: target [academic career]!": just another statistical casualty (2012) / Roger A. Brumback
Towards a new crown indicator: an empirical analysis (2011) / Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck, Thed N. van Leeuwen, Martijn S. Visser and Anthony F.J. van Raan
Remembering problems with the "new crown indicator" (MNCS) of the CWTS (2011) / Loet Leydesdorff and Tobias Opthof
There are [sic] neither "King" or "Crown" in scientometrics: comments on a supposed "alternative" method of normalization (2011) / Yves Gingras and Vincent Lariviére
Accounting for science / Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Blaise Cronin
A review of bibliometric and other science indicators and their role in research evaluation (1987) / Jean King
Measuring science: irresistible temptations, easy shortcuts, and dangerous consequences (2007) / Giovanni Abramo and Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
One size doesn't fill all: on the co-evolution of national evaluation systems and social science publishing (2013) / Diana Hicks
Fatal attraction: conceptual and methodological problems in the ranking of universities by bibliometric methods (2005) / Anthony F.J. van Raan
The future of research evaluation rests with an intelligent combination of advanced metrics and transparent peer review (2007) / Henk F. Moed
Explaining Australia's increased share of ISI publications: the effects of a funding formula based on publication counts (2003) / Linda Butler
Changing incentives to publish (2011) / Chiara Franzoni, Giuseppe Scellato and Paula Stephan
Looks good on paper: a flawed system for judging research is leading to academic fraud (2013) / The Economist
A call for action / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
Mirror, mirror on the wall / Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto
Science against science (1998) / Marian Apostol
New age numerology: a gloss on Apostol (1998) / Blaise Cronin
Endowing mediocrity: neoliberalism, information technology and the decline of radical pedagogy (1999) / Mike Sosteric
Bibliometrics as weapons of mass citation (2010) / Antoinette Molinié and Geoffrey Bodenhausen
The follies of citation indices and academic ranking lists: a brief commentary to "bibliometrics as weapons of mass citation" (2010) / Richard R. Ernst
Living with the h-index? metric assemblages in the contemporary academy (2012) / Roger Burrows
Impact of bibliometrics upon the science system: Inadvertent consequences? (2005) / Peter Weingart
Research governance in academia: are there alternatives to academic rankings? (2009) / Margit Osterloh and Bruno S. Frey
Epilogue: the bibliometrics baby and the bathwater / Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto.
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