On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Eliezer Geisler wrote: > Dear Steven: > > In your latest Sigmetrics entry on the British response to Peer Review, > you left out my book on metrics and an article I wrote sometime ago in The > Scientist. It seems to me that all the discussion since then is rehashing > established concepts and analyses. We know the system is flawed, but, > as Winston Churchill once said in a different context about Democracy > and our own Mark Twain about getting old: the alternatives are worse. > > E. Geisler (2000) The Metrics of Science and Technology, Greenwood Press. > > Kind regards, > > Elie > > Elie Geisler > Distinguished Professor of Management > and Director, > IIT Center for the Management > of Medical Technology (CMMT) > Stuart School of Business > Illinois Institute of Technology > 565 West Adams Street > Chicago, Illinois 60661 > Tel:(312)906-6532 Fax:(312)906-6549 > http://www.stuart.iit.edu
Dear Elie, Thanks for your note. The list I gave was not meant to be exhaustive (in fact it only referred to my own writings on this topic!), but I am happy to post the reference to your book, and your New Scientist Article too: Geisler, E. (2001) The Mires of Evaluation. The Scientist. 15(10) 39. I would also like to add Henk Moed's book on the topic: Moed, H. F. (2005) Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation. NY Springer. and his paper on download and citation metrics: Moed, H. F. (2005) Statistical Relationships Between Downloads and Citations at the Level of Individual Documents Within a Single Journal, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56(10): 1088-1097 Best wishes, Stevan Harnad