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Becoming Metric-Wise
A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers
Provides a resource for scientists and researchers to truly understand the bibliometric indicators used to evaluate them and their work
Ronald Rousseau (Author), Leo Egghe (Author), Raf Guns (Author)
9780081024744, Elsevier Science
Paperback / softback, published 4 January 2018
402 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.65 kg
Becoming Metric-Wise: A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers aims to inform researchers about metrics so that they become aware of the evaluative techniques being applied to their scientific output. Understanding these concepts will help them during their funding initiatives, and in hiring and tenure. The book not only describes what indicators do (or are designed to do, which is not always the same thing), but also gives precise mathematical formulae so that indicators can be properly understood and evaluated. Metrics have become a critical issue in science, with widespread international discussion taking place on the subject across scientific journals and organizations. As researchers should know the publication-citation context, the mathematical formulae of indicators being used by evaluating committees and their consequences, and how such indicators might be misused, this book provides an ideal tome on the topic.
1. Introduction 2. Scientific research and communication 3. Publishing 4. Statistics 5. Publication and citation analysis 6. Journal citation analysis 7. Indicators 8. Research evaluation 9. The informetric laws 10. Networks 11. Timeline of Informetrics
Subject Areas: Community & outreach services [GLMX], Library & information sciences [GL]
