Scholarly Metrics under the Microscope Por Blaise Cronin; Cassidy R. Sugimoto; Association for Information Science and Technology Staff (Contribution by)Número de clasificación: 010.727 S368 2015
ISBN: 9781573874991
Fecha de publicación: 2014-10-01
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.