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Scholarly metrics under the microscope : from citation analysis to academic auditing /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Association for Information Science and Technology
Other Authors: Cronin, Blaise (Editor), Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Medford, New Jersey : Published on behalf of the Association for Information Science and Technology by Information Today, Inc., [2015]
Series:ASIST monograph series.
Subjects:
Bibliometrics.
Bibliographical citations > Evaluation.
Scholarly publishing > Evaluation.
Scholarly electronic publishing > Evaluation.
Authorship > Evaluation Studies.
Peer Review, Research > Evaluation Studies.
Publishing > Evaluation Studies.
Bibliographical citations.
Bibliometri.
Bibliografiska referenser.
Vetenskaplig publicering.
Vetenskaplig elektronisk publicering.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the drunk, the keys, and the streetlamp / Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto
  • Citation indexes for science: a new dimension in documentation through association of ideas (1955) / Eugene Garfield
  • Fascination or fetishism? / Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto
  • The need for a theory of citing (1981) / Blaise Cronin
  • Referencing as persuasion (1977) / G. Nigel Gilbert
  • Beyond the holy grail: from citation theory to indicator theories (1999) / Paul Wouters
  • Informetric analyses on the world wide web: methodological approaches to "webometrics" (1997) / Tomas C. Almind and Peter Ingwersen
  • The new metrics of scholarly authority (2007) / Michael Jensen
  • Toward a rhopography of scholarly communication (2008) / Blaise Cronin
  • Scientometrics 2.0: toward new metrics of scholarly impact on the social web (2010) / Jason Priem and Bradley M. Hemminger
  • Messy matters of meaning and motivation / Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto
  • Abuses of citation indexing (1967) / Kenneth O. May
  • The footnote fetish (1977) / Jon Wiener
  • Citation analysis: queries and caveats (1977) / Alan L. Porter
  • Do you sincerely want to be cited? or: read before you cite (2006) / Mikhail Simkin and Vwany Roychowdhury
  • Problems of citation analysis: a critical review (1989) / Michael H. MacRoberts and Barbara R. MacRoberts
  • No citation analyses please, we're British (1991) / Alun Anderson
  • Scientific communication
  • a vanity fair? (1999) / Georg Franck
  • Coercive citation in academic publishing (2012) / Allen W. Wilhite and Eric A. Fong
  • Show me data (2007) / Mike Rossner, Heather Van Epps and Emma Hill
  • The uses and abuses of bibliometrics (2012) / Martin H. Johnson, Jacques Cohen, and Gedis Grudzinskas
  • Sick of impact factors (2012) / Stephen Curry
  • The devil is in the details / Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Blaise Cronin
  • Journal selection for current contents: editorial merit vs. political pressure (1985) / Eugene Garfield
  • Lost science in the third world (1995) / W. Wayt Gibbs
  • Opportunities for and limitations of the book citation index (2013) / Juan Gorraiz, Philip J. Purnell and Wolfgang Glänzel
  • Google's book search: a disaster for scholars (2009) / Geoffrey Nunberg
  • Using Google Scholar for journal impact factors and the h-index in Nationwide Publishing Assessments in Academia-siren songs and air-raid sirens (2012) / Péter Jacsó
  • Manipulating Google Scholar citations and Google Scholar metrics: simple, easy and tempting (2012) / Emilio Delgado López-Cózar, Nicolás Robinson-Garcia, and Daniel Torres-Salinas
  • Novel forms of impact measurement
  • an empirical assessment (2012) / Paul Wouters and Rodrigo Costas
  • Critical questions for big data: provocations for a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon (2012) / Danah Boyd and Kate Crawford
  • Issues of time, credit and peer review (2012) / Diane Harley
  • Angels on a pinhead / Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Blaise Cronin
  • An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output (2005) / J.E. Hirsch
  • Do we need the h index and its variants in addition to standard bibliometric measures (2009) / Lutz Bornmann, Rüdiger Mutz and Hans-Dieter Daniel
  • A quantitative analysis of indicators of scientific performance (2008) / Sune Lehmann, Andrew D. Jackson and Benny E. Lautrup
  • The inconsistency of the h-index (2012) / Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck
  • How can impact factors be improved? (1996) / Eugene Garfield
  • The number that's devouring science (2005) / Richard Monastersky
  • "3 ... 2 ... 1 ... impact [factor]: target [academic career]!": just another statistical casualty (2012) / Roger A. Brumback
  • Towards a new crown indicator: an empirical analysis (2011) / Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck, Thed N. van Leeuwen, Martijn S. Visser and Anthony F.J. van Raan
  • Remembering problems with the "new crown indicator" (MNCS) of the CWTS (2011) / Loet Leydesdorff and Tobias Opthof
  • There are [sic] neither "King" or "Crown" in scientometrics: comments on a supposed "alternative" method of normalization (2011) / Yves Gingras and Vincent Lariviére
  • Accounting for science / Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Blaise Cronin
  • A review of bibliometric and other science indicators and their role in research evaluation (1987) / Jean King
  • Measuring science: irresistible temptations, easy shortcuts, and dangerous consequences (2007) / Giovanni Abramo and Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
  • One size doesn't fill all: on the co-evolution of national evaluation systems and social science publishing (2013) / Diana Hicks
  • Fatal attraction: conceptual and methodological problems in the ranking of universities by bibliometric methods (2005) / Anthony F.J. van Raan
  • The future of research evaluation rests with an intelligent combination of advanced metrics and transparent peer review (2007) / Henk F. Moed
  • Explaining Australia's increased share of ISI publications: the effects of a funding formula based on publication counts (2003) / Linda Butler
  • Changing incentives to publish (2011) / Chiara Franzoni, Giuseppe Scellato and Paula Stephan
  • Looks good on paper: a flawed system for judging research is leading to academic fraud (2013) / The Economist
  • A call for action / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
  • Mirror, mirror on the wall / Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto
  • Science against science (1998) / Marian Apostol
  • New age numerology: a gloss on Apostol (1998) / Blaise Cronin
  • Endowing mediocrity: neoliberalism, information technology and the decline of radical pedagogy (1999) / Mike Sosteric
  • Bibliometrics as weapons of mass citation (2010) / Antoinette Molinié and Geoffrey Bodenhausen
  • The follies of citation indices and academic ranking lists: a brief commentary to "bibliometrics as weapons of mass citation" (2010) / Richard R. Ernst
  • Living with the h-index? metric assemblages in the contemporary academy (2012) / Roger Burrows
  • Impact of bibliometrics upon the science system: Inadvertent consequences? (2005) / Peter Weingart
  • Research governance in academia: are there alternatives to academic rankings? (2009) / Margit Osterloh and Bruno S. Frey
  • Epilogue: the bibliometrics baby and the bathwater / Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto.