42 research outputs found
Citations: Indicators of Quality? The Impact Fallacy
We argue that citation is a composed indicator: short-term citations can be
considered as currency at the research front, whereas long-term citations can
contribute to the codification of knowledge claims into concept symbols.
Knowledge claims at the research front are more likely to be transitory and are
therefore problematic as indicators of quality. Citation impact studies focus
on short-term citation, and therefore tend to measure not epistemic quality,
but involvement in current discourses in which contributions are positioned by
referencing. We explore this argument using three case studies: (1) citations
of the journal Soziale Welt as an example of a venue that tends not to publish
papers at a research front, unlike, for example, JACS; (2) Robert Merton as a
concept symbol across theories of citation; and (3) the Multi-RPYS
("Multi-Referenced Publication Year Spectroscopy") of the journals
Scientometrics, Gene, and Soziale Welt. We show empirically that the
measurement of "quality" in terms of citations can further be qualified:
short-term citation currency at the research front can be distinguished from
longer-term processes of incorporation and codification of knowledge claims
into bodies of knowledge. The recently introduced Multi-RPYS can be used to
distinguish between short-term and long-term impacts.Comment: accepted for publication in Frontiers in Research Metrics and
Analysis; doi: 10.3389/frma.2016.0000
Understanding the relevance of national culture in international business research: a quantitative analysis
This review is a comprehensive quantitative analysis of the International Business literature whose focus is on national culture. The analysis relies on a broad range of bibliometric techniques as productivity rankings, citation analysis (individual and cumulative), study of collaborative research patterns, and analysis of the knowledge base. It provides insights on (I) faculty and institutional research productivity and performance; (II) articles, institutions, and scholars’ influence in the contents of the field and its research agenda; and (III) national and international collaborative research trends. The study also explores the body of literature that has exerted the greatest impact on the researched set of selected articles.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
A Review of Theory and Practice in Scientometrics
Scientometrics is the study of the quantitative aspects of the process of science as a communication system. It is centrally, but not only, concerned with the analysis of citations in the academic literature. In recent years it has come to play a major role in the measurement and evaluation of research performance. In this review we consider: the historical development of scientometrics, sources of citation data, citation metrics and the “laws" of scientometrics, normalisation, journal impact factors and other journal metrics, visualising and mapping science, evaluation and policy, and future developments
Journal Productivity in Fishery Science an informetric analysis
Knowledge is a human resource which has the ability to
consolidate the valuable results of human thinking and
civilization through different times. It is the totality of
understanding of nature and its features for improved
quality of life of human society. Because of this, knowledge
has been increasing in volume, dimension and directions. The
term ‘information’ and 'knowledge' are often used as if they
are interchangeable. Information is ‘potential knowledge‘
which is converted into knowledge by the integration of
memory of human beings. In modern times there is a confusion
on knowledge usage. Therefore an understanding of the
concept ‘knowledge’ is needed for formulation of strategies
in information science
The Dynamics and Frontiers of Video Game Social Research in Communication Studies-A Scientometrics Analysis Based on CiteSpace and VOSviewer
In this media-rich era, digital entertainment in the form of video games has a major impact on our social interaction and productivity in a borderless social mode. As a result, in order to comprehend the research progress of video game, CiteSpace and VOSviewer were used for scientometrics and knowledge mapping in this study. It displays the state of development, fundamental structure, and frontier areas of video game social communication. The mapping is based on 448 publications collected through Web of Science core database searches. The findings indicate that (1) video game social research has gained increasing attention over the last 23 years, with a curvilinear growth in annual publications, but a core authorship group has yet to materialize, and the United States institutions dominate the number of publications on this topic. (2) Gaming behaviors, gender studies, media effects, and gaming experiences have emerged as the four main hotspots of research in this field under the keyword co-occurrence and clustering analyses. (3) Research in this area has traditionally concentrated on violent, addictive, and other problematic gaming behaviors. The findings of this study forecast future trends in the study of video game social communication and provide the groundwork for more in-depth research
In Search of Convergence: A Co-citation Analysis of Three Sport Management Journals
Responding to a series of articles in sport management literature calling for more
diversity in terms of areas of interest or methods, this study warns against the danger of
excessively fragmenting this field of research. The works of Kuhn (1962) and Pfeffer
(1993) are taken as the basis of an argument that connects convergence with scientific
strength. However, being aware of the large number of counterarguments directed at this
line of reasoning, a new model of convergence, which focuses on clusters of research
contributions with similar areas of interest, methods, and concepts, is proposed. The
existence of these clusters is determined with the help of a bibliometric analysis of
publications in three sport management journals. This examination determines that there
are justified reasons to be concerned about the level of convergence in the field, pointing
out to a reduced ability to create large clusters of contributions in similar areas of interest