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
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
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
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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
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
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