This book deals with the evaluation of scholarly research
performance, and focuses on the contribution of scholarly work to
the advancement of scholarly knowledge. Its principal question is:
how can citation analysis be used properly as a tool in the
assessment of such a contribution?
Citation analysis involves the construction and application of a
series of indicators of the a ~impacta (TM), a ~influencea (TM) or
a ~qualitya (TM) of scholarly work, derived from references cited
in footnotes or bibliographies of scholarly research publications.
It describes primarily the use of data extracted from the Science
Citation Index and the Web of Science, published by the Institute
for Scientific Information (ISI)/Thomson Scientific. But many
aspects to which this book dedicates attention relate to citation
analysis in general,
It provides a wide range of important facts, and corrects a
number of common misunderstandings about citation analysis. It
introduces basic notions and distinctions, and deals both with
theoretical and technical aspects, and with its applicability in
various policy contexts, at the level of individual scholars,
research groups, departments, institutions, national scholarly
systems, disciplines or subfields, and scholarly journals.
Although the major part of the analysis relates to the basic
science a" a domain in which citation analysis is used most
frequently a" this book also addresses its uses and limits in the
applied and technical sciences, social sciences and humanities.
It reveals the enormous potential of quantitative, bibliometric
analyses of the scholarly literature for a deeper understanding of
scholarly activity andperformance, and highlights their policy
relevance. But this book is also critical, underlines the limits of
citation analysis in research evaluation, and issues warnings for
potential misuse. It proposes criteria for proper use of citation
analysis as a research evaluation tool.
In order to be used properly as a research evaluation tool, it
is essential that all participants have insight into the nature of
citation analysis, how its indicators are constructed and
calculated, what the various theoretical positions state about what
they measure, and what are their potentialities and limitations,
particularly in relation to peer review. This book aims at
providing such insight.
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