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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254844903321

Autore

Moed Henk F

Titolo

Applied Evaluative Informetrics / / by Henk F. Moed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

9783319605227

3319605224

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXI, 312 p. 165 illus., 148 illus. in color.)

Collana

Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication, , 2365-8371

Disciplina

020.21

Soggetti

Information storage and retrieval

Data mining

Application software

Management

Industrial management

Information Storage and Retrieval

Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Innovation/Technology Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Structure of the book -- Acknowledgements -- Executive Summary -- PART 1: General Introduction and Synopsis -- PART 2. Historical overview lectures -- PART 3. Studies on hot topics -- PART 4. Perspective articles.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents an introduction to the field of applied evaluative informetrics, dealing with the use of bibliometric or informetric indicators in research assessment. It sketches the field’s history, recent achievements, and its potential and limits. The book dedicates special attention to the application context of quantitative research assessment. It describes research assessment as an evaluation science, and distinguishes various assessment models, in which the domain of



informetrics and the policy sphere are disentangled analytically. It illustrates how external, non-informetric factors influence indicator development, and how the policy context impacts the setup of an assessment process. It also clarifies common misunderstandings in the interpretation of some often used statistics. Addressing the way forward, the book expresses the author’s critical views on a series of fundamental problems in the current use of research performance indicators in research assessment. Highlighting the potential of informetric techniques, a series of new features is proposed that could be implemented in future assessment processes. It sketches a perspective on altmetrics and proposes new lines in longer term, strategic indicator research. It is written for interested scholars from all domains of science and scholarship, and especially for all those subjected to research assessment, research students at advanced master and PhD level, research managers, funders and science policy officials, and to practitioners and students in the field.