Book description
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
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgement
- About the author
- List of figures and tables
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Basic categories of scientometrics
- Chapter 3: Classification of the indicators of evaluative scientometrics
- Chapter 4: Publication growth in science
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Chapter 5: Scientific eminence of journals: the Garfield Factor and the Current Contribution Index
- Introduction
- Standardised description of the Garfield Factor
- Chances for citation and chances for citedness
- The Garfield Factor and relative publication growth
- Some empirical findings
- An empirical model
- Towards understanding the Garfield Factor
- The GF and the SIC index
- Relationship between quantity and quality: growth and specific indices
- The Current Contribution Index (CCI)
- The πV-index
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 6: The ageing of scientific information
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Chapter 7: Scientometric indicators for the assessment of publications
- Introduction
- Definition and function of comparative indicators of evaluative scientometrics
- Relationships between three relative impact indicators (RW, RCR, RPS)
- The Invitation Paradox
- Model for the selection of relative publication impact indicators
- Composite scientometric indicators
- The h-index and the π-index
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 8: Reference strategy: model of manifested communication through publications
- Chapter 9: Frequency of and strength of motives in referencing: the Reference Threshold Model
- Chapter 10: Research contribution and share of credit of individual authors
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Chapter 11: Standards in scientometric assessments
- Introduction
- Bibliometric factors
- Effect of bibliometric factors on the GF of journals
- Selecting sets of papers and journals as reference standards
- Standardisation of citedness indicators using standardised publication and citation time windows
- Dependence of JPC on the type of publication
- Methods for obtaining absolute reference standards for relative impact indicators
- Delineating journals by subject field
- Methods for standardising GFs
- Methods for determining ordinal rank scores in sets of different size
- Standardising part-indicators
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 12: Scientometric assessments: application of scientometrics for the purposes of science policy
- Chapter 13: Institutionalisation of Scientific Information: a scientometric model (ISI-S model)
- Chapter 14: Conclusions
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
Product information
- Title: The Evaluation of Research By Scientometric Indicators
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2010
- Publisher(s): Chandos Publishing
- ISBN: 9781780630250
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