{"id":131,"date":"2008-04-30T17:42:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T00:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=131"},"modified":"2008-04-30T17:42:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T00:42:47","slug":"beyond-the-rae-the-afternoon-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/04\/beyond-the-rae-the-afternoon-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the RAE &#8211; the afternoon sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, before lunch, my battery went, so I missed the final Q&amp;A. However, over lunch I found a power socket, and got a bit more charge into the battery (although not fully charged, so won&#8217;t last the afternoon).<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon of the session is mainly about case studies. However the first session is about a questionnaire all delegates filled out before the conference. The results are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>75 Universities represented\n<li>About a third from library and information services\n<li>41 have &#8216;Research&#8217; in their job titles\n<li>Almost all delegates were involved in the collection of publications metadata for the RAE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Delegates identified the following challenges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Verifying individual researchers publications lists (60%)\n<li>Collecting the source data (46%)\n<li>Engaging researchers support (36%)\n<li>Ensuring accuracy of data (6%)\n<li>DOIs (3%)\n<li>Meeting RAE requirements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than half the delegates believed they would be involved in the REF. The main concerns were:<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Getting accurate and verifiable data<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Publications &#8211; knowing whether complete\n<li>Citation data\n<ul>\n<li>replicate citation counts\n<li>verfiy and challenge if necessary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Getting corrections in Web of Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Institutional Infratstructure<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Institutional repository or Publications database\n<li>Linking output to individuals\n<li>Difficulty of including citation information\n<li>Perhaps &#8211; National infrastructure\n<li>Perhaps &#8211; Centralised data collection\n<li>Systems Architecture &#8211; flexible\n<li>More sophisticated &#8211; inform research strategy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Knowing what is required<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Hopefully today will help\n<li>What tools will be available to help?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Time and workflow<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Too short timescale\n<li>Not just 4 publications per researcher\n<li>If citation window is 10 years (or more) &#8211; even more data to collect\n<li>Stability &#8211; perhaps become more integrated to institutional workflow, rather than special event every few years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Bibliometrics<\/h3>\n<h3>Subject Coverage<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Interdisciplinary areas &#8211; e.g. Nursing\/Health<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Selection of individuals<\/h3>\n<h3>Gamesmanship<\/h3>\n<h3>Using Web of Science<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Comprehensiveness<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Using other sources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Publications not in WoS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Scholarly Communications<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, before lunch, my battery went, so I missed the final Q&amp;A. However, over lunch I found a power socket, and got a bit more charge into the battery (although not fully charged, so won&#8217;t last the afternoon). The afternoon of the session is mainly about case studies. However the first session is about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-beyondtherae","tag-bibliometrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}