Bibliometrics, assessment and UK research

Comment: Bibliometrics in the Context of the UK Research Assessment Exercise

Research funding and reputation in the UK have, for over two decades, been increasingly dependent on a regular peer-review of all UK departments. This is to move to a system more based on bibliometrics. Assessment exercises of this kind influence the behavior of institutions, departments and individuals, and therefore bibliometrics will have effects beyond simple measurement.

Research Assessment and Bibliometrics: Bringing Quality Back In

Introduction Bibliometric indicators are used to compare research performances and also to assess and evaluate research performance (see, e.g. GimenezToledo et al., 2007; Lane, 2010). However, recently scholars voice protest against bibliometric assessments (see, e.g., Lawrence, 2002; Molinie & Bodenhausen, 2010; Drubin, 2014). The arguments put forward are manifold. For example, the applicatio...

Use of Bibliometrics in LIS Research

Library and Information Science (LIS) literature mirrors the development of the LIS profession, which needs to be analyzed for growth of the profession and to overcome its weaknesses. Bibliometric methods have been widely used in LIS research for analysis of literature. This study aims to review use of bibliometrics in LIS research. It concludes that bibliometrics has been found to be very usef...

Climate Change Research in View of Bibliometrics

This bibliometric study of a large publication set dealing with research on climate change aims at mapping the relevant literature from a bibliometric perspective and presents a multitude of quantitative data: (1) The growth of the overall publication output as well as (2) of some major subfields, (3) the contributing journals and countries as well as their citation impact, and (4) a title word...

Making an impact: research, publications, and bibliometrics in the BJGP.