Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation
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Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation by Henk F Moed
This book is written for members of the scholarly research community, and for persons involved in research evaluation and research policy. More specifically, it is directed towards the following four main groups of readers: - All scientists and scholars who have been or will be subjected to a quantitative assessment of research performance using citation analysis. - Research policy makers and managers who wish to become conversant with the basic features of citation analysis, and about its potentialities and limitations. - Members of peer review committees and other evaluators, who consider the use of citation analysis as a tool in their assessments. - Practitioners and students in the field of quantitative science and technology studies, informetrics, and library and information science. Citation analysis involves the construction and application of a series of indicators of the 'impact', 'influence' or 'quality' of scholarly work, derived from citation data, i.e. data on references cited in footnotes or bibliographies of scholarly research publications. Such indicators are applied both in the study of scholarly communication and in the assessment of research performance. The term 'scholarly' comprises all domains of science and scholarship, including not only those fields that are normally denoted as science - the natural and life sciences, mathematical and technical sciences - but also social sciences and humanities.From the reviews:
"Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation is a valuable book for those interested in research evaluationIts take-home message is that citation analysis is an interesting additional tool for evaluating research … ." (Toon Taris, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 15 (3), 2006)
"The book is intended for decision-makers in research, for the scientists who are affected by evaluations and the decisions based on them, and for information specialists who generate impact data and/or carry out research in this field. … this book deals with its subject very competently and clearly. The author has succeeded in bridging the gap between the complex methodological background and the prerequisites for the evaluation of research … . The book is unique in its topicality, comprehensiveness, and depth." (Werner Marx, Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 45 (18), 2006)
Henk F. Moed is a former senior staff member and full professor of research assessment methodologies in the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Science Studies at the University of Leiden in 1989. He has been active in numerous research topics, including: the creation of bibliometric databases from raw data from Thomson Scientific's Web of Science and Elsevier's Scopus; analysis of inaccuracies in citation matching; assessment of the potentialities and pitfalls of journal impact factors; the development and application of science indicators for the measurement of research performance in the basic natural- and life sciences; the use of bibliometric indicators as a tool to assess peer review procedures; the development and application of performance indicators in social sciences and humanities; studies of the effects of 'Open Access' upon research impact and studies of patterns in 'usage' (downloading) behaviour of users of electronic scientific publication warehouses; studies of the effects of the use of bibliometric indicators upon scientific authors and journal publishers.
He has published numerous research articles, and is editor of several journals in his field. He is a winner of the Derek de Solla Price Award in 1999. He edited, jointly with W. Glanzel and U. Schmoch, the Handbook on Quantitative Science and Technology Research (Kluwer 2004), and published Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation (Springer 2005), a textbook which is one of very few of these in the field.
He developed a new indicator of journal impact, SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper), a so called rolling year journal metric. He is a member of the Board of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). He was a Senior Scientific Advisor at Elsevier for 4 years and a founder of the Elsevier Bibliometric Research Program (EBRP, which ran till Aug. 2013) and of the Elsevier Metrics Development Program (from 2014). He also was Director of the Informetric Research Group (2012-2014).
He has published numerous research articles, and is editor of several journals in his field. He is a winner of the Derek de Solla Price Award in 1999. He edited, jointly with W. Glanzel and U. Schmoch, the Handbook on Quantitative Science and Technology Research (Kluwer 2004), and published Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation (Springer 2005), a textbook which is one of very few of these in the field.
He developed a new indicator of journal impact, SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper), a so called rolling year journal metric. He is a member of the Board of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). He was a Senior Scientific Advisor at Elsevier for 4 years and a founder of the Elsevier Bibliometric Research Program (EBRP, which ran till Aug. 2013) and of the Elsevier Metrics Development Program (from 2014). He also was Director of the Informetric Research Group (2012-2014).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781402037139 |
| ISBN 10 | 1402037139 |
| Title | Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation |
| Author | Henk F Moed |
| Series | Information Science And Knowledge Management |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Year published | 2005-07-26 |
| Number of pages | 348 |
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