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000048218 1001_ $$aGingras, Yves,$$d1954-,$$eauthor.
000048218 24510 $$aBibliometrics and research evaluation :$$buses and abuses /$$cYves Gingras.
000048218 264_1 $$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$$bThe MIT Press,$$c2016.
000048218 300__ $$axii, 119 pages :$$billustrations (black and white) ;$$c24 cm
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000048218 4901_ $$aHistory and foundations of information science
000048218 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000048218 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- 1. The Origins of Bibliometrics -- 2. What Bibliometrics Teaches Us about the Dynamics of Science -- 3. The Proliferation of Research Evaluation -- 4. The Evaluation of Research Evaluation -- Conclusion: The Universities’ New Clothes? -- Index
000048218 520__ $$aThe 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 "subjective" and intuitive evaluation methods such as peer review that have been used since scientific papers were first published in the seventeenth century. In this book, Yves Gingras offers a spirited argument against an unquestioning reliance on bibliometrics as an indicator of research quality. Gingras shows that bibliometric rankings have no real scientific validity, rarely measuring what they pretend to. Although the study of publication and citation patterns, at the proper scales, can yield insights on the global dynamics of science over time, ill-defined quantitative indicators often generate perverse and unintended effects on the direction of research. Moreover, abuse of bibliometrics occurs when data is manipulated to boost rankings. Gingras looks at the politics of evaluation and argues that using numbers can be a way to control scientists and diminish their autonomy in the evaluation process. Proposing precise criteria for establishing the validity of indicators at a given scale of analysis, Gingras questions why universities are so eager to let invalid indicators influence their research strategy.
000048218 650_0 $$aResearch$$xEvaluation.
000048218 650_0 $$aBibliometrics.
000048218 650_0 $$aEducation, Higher$$xResearch$$xEvaluation.
000048218 650_0 $$aUniversities and colleges$$xResearch$$xEvaluation.
000048218 650_0 $$aIndustrial property.
000048218 7001_ $$aBuckland, Michael;,$$eeditors.
000048218 830_0 $$aHistory and foundations of information science.
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