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- Title
Appropriate Use of Metrics in Research Assessment of Autonomous Academic Institutions.
- Authors
Moed, Henk F.
- Abstract
This paper discusses a subject as complex as the assessment of scientific-scholarly research for evaluative purposes. It focuses on the use of informetric or bibliometric indicators in academic research assessment. It proposes a series of analytical distinctions. Moreover, it draws conclusions regarding the validity and usefulness of indicators frequently used in the assessment of individual scholars, scholarly institutions and journals. The paper criticizes a so called desktop application model based upon a set of simplistic, poorly founded assumptions about the potential of indicators and the essence of research evaluation. It proposes a more reflexive, theoretically founded, two-level model for the use of metrics of academic research assessment.
- Subjects
BIBLIOMETRICS; UNIVERSITY autonomy; UNIVERSITY research; SCHOLARLY communication; CITATION analysis; RESEARCH funding
- Publication
Scholarly Assessment Reports, 2020, Vol 2, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2689-5870
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29024/sar.8