Re: UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) review

2002-11-21 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, David Goodman wrote: > I question whether the members of any scientific field are qualified for > judging quality in other scientific fields, except by the use of common > sense and of objective measures, such as scientometric ones. Agreed. > I think librarians and other inf

Re: UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) review

2002-11-21 Thread David Goodman
Stevan asks for my candidate for the true impact analysis: I agree with him that it should be scientometric, and like him, I think the remedy for the currently practiced bad scientometrics to be better scientometrics.. The particular improvement which is necessary is a way of measuring the influe

Re: UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) review

2002-11-21 Thread Leslie Carr
The latest paper (with many of the prior citations) appears to be "Use of citation analysis to predict the outcome of the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise for Unit of Assessment (UoA) 61: Library and Information Management" available at http://informationr.net/ir/6-2/paper103.html Les Carr ---

Re: Survey of Users and Non-Users of Eprint Archives

2002-11-21 Thread Stevan Harnad
yOn Wed, 20 Nov 2002, [identity removed] asked:: > 1. How many people were involved in the creation of > Cogprints? How many people currently maintain its > collection? One founder/editor (me), three successive designers (Matt Hemus, Rob Tansley, Chris Gutteridge), several student assistants (Ale

Re: UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) review

2002-11-21 Thread Charles Oppenheim
There have been many studies over the years (primarily authored by one C. Oppenheim, but also by others) demonstrating a statistically significant correlation between citation counts by academics returned for the RAE and their department's eventual RAE scores. These studies cover hard science, sof

DSpace (tm) 1.0 Released (fwd)

2002-11-21 Thread Stevan Harnad
-- Forwarded message -- List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:33:14 - From: "Tansley, Robert" To: oai-implement...@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu, oai-gene...@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu Subject: DSpace (tm) 1.0 Released DSpace (tm) 1.0 Re