ACUMEN DELIVERABLE D5.4b – Consequences of Indicators: using indicators on data from Google Scholar

Lorna Elizabeth Wildgaard; Birger Larsen; Jesper Schneider

ACUMEN DELIVERABLE D5.4b – Consequences of Indicators: using indicators on data from Google Scholar

Lorna Elizabeth Wildgaard, Birger Larsen, Jesper Schneider

Institut for Kommunikation - Ph.d.-området

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Abstract

We investigate if Publish or Perish ready-to-use bibliometric indicators can be used by individual scholars to enrich their curriculum vitae. Selected indicators were tested in four different fields and across 5 different academic seniorities. The results show performance in bibliometric evaluation is highly individual and using indicators as “benchmarks” unwise. Further the simple calculation of cites per publication per years-since-first-publication is a more informative indicator than the ready-to-use ones and can also be used to estimate if it is at all worth the scholar’s time to apply indicators to their CV.

Originalsprog	Engelsk

Antal sider	9
Rekvirerende organisation	EU 7th Framework Programme
Status	Udgivet - 28 feb. 2014

Bibliografisk note

European Commission. 7th Framework Programme. FP7 Grant Agreement 266632.
ACUMEN is a European research collaboration aimed at understanding the ways in which researchers are evaluated by their peers and by institutions, and at assessing how the science system can be improved and enhanced.

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