Journal impact evaluation: a webometric perspective

Journal Self-Citation XXII: On the Journal Impact Factor - A Historical Perspective

Webometric Ranking and Nigerian Private Universities : A

The Case study research method was adopted to evaluate the possible chances of Bells University of Technology, Ota, Nigeria, in Cybermetric Research Group’s webometric ranking. Observation, questionnaire and webometric analysis using Google Search Engine was adopted as methods of data collection. The sampled academics comprised those that had spent at least six months as academic staff of the U...

Impact Evaluation of Social Programs: A Policy Perspective

There is increasing recognition among governments and donor organizations that rigorous evaluations of public interventions should feature in the social policy decisionmaking process. Yet there is frequently a gap between the desire for information on the effectiveness of programs and an understanding of the potential and the limitations of evaluation tools. What questions can evaluations answe...

Impact Evaluation of Social Programs: A Policy Perspective (DRAFT)

There is increasing recognition among governments and donor organizations that rigorous evaluations of public interventions should feature in the social policy decisionmaking process. Yet there is frequently a gap between the desire for information on the effectiveness of programs and an understanding of the potential and the limitations of evaluation tools. What questions can evaluations answe...

Some misuses of Journal Impact Factor in research evaluation.

Jesús Rey-Rocha1, M. José Martín-Sempere2, Jesús Martínez-Frías3 and Fernando López-Vera4 (1,2Centre for Scientific Information and Documentation (CINDOC), Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Madrid, Spain; 3Department of Geology, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Madrid, Spain; 4Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Geology and Geo...