{"id":138,"date":"2008-04-30T17:41:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T00:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=138"},"modified":"2008-04-30T17:41:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T00:41:15","slug":"best-practice-in-the-use-of-citation-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/04\/best-practice-in-the-use-of-citation-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Best practice in the use of citation data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As This talk by Anthony van Raan from the University of Leiden (who was a consultant to HEFCE on the use of bibliometrics I think)<\/p>\n<p>Anthony is at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), who have been working on bibliometrics for many years. CWTS have a licence agreement with Thomson for the use of Web of Science raw data, but has also created its own bibliometric data system using algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently citation isn&#8217;t as complicated as quantum mechanics! That&#8217;s a relief&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What do citations measure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a positive correlation between citation based studies and qualitaty judgements by peers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anthony is going through this at quite a pace, so these notes may be sketchy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There is a set of total publications, and various systems list subsets of this &#8216;universe&#8217; &#8211; Web of Science is a big subset, but also LNCS, Medline, arXiv. Now Scopus is another big subset, and CWTS are now comparing Web of Science to Scopus.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony is now going of key indicators and what they help measure &#8211; however, he is going through it so fast I can&#8217;t keep up &#8211; it might not be quantum mechanics, but as this speed I can&#8217;t capture it all.<\/p>\n<p>As Web of Science covers (as you might expect) mainly science &#8211; and it is the &#8216;science&#8217; based disciplines that use journal publication as the major route for scholarly communication. In Humanities and Arts, books are used more, and CWTS is experimenting with a new kind of ranking &#8211; which measures if &#8216;your&#8217; book is available in the top 250 university libraries (he doesn&#8217;t say how top 250 university libraries are measured) &#8211; if this gets adopted, will we start to see an increased demand for libraries to buy specific books to increase ranking?<\/p>\n<p>Anthony demonstrating how Chemistry researchers publish across journals from many areas (e.g. Rheumatology, Cell Biology, Applied Physics) &#8211; so even an established discipline like Chemistry turns out to be very interdisciplinary &#8211; at least when it comes to publication.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony indicating that bibliometric indicators can be manipulated and\/or they discriminate certain persons\/types of research &#8211; but establishing evidence for some of this needs work &#8211; for example CWTS have found that the assertion that bibliometrics discriminate against younger academics is not supported by the evidence. However, they have found that journal editors behave in such a way that maniuplates impact factor (CWTS published an article on this in the Journal of Documentation)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As This talk by Anthony van Raan from the University of Leiden (who was a consultant to HEFCE on the use of bibliometrics I think) Anthony is at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), who have been working on bibliometrics for many years. 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