3 research outputs found
Comparing People with Bibliometrics
Bibliometric indicators, citation counts and/or download counts are
increasingly being used to inform personnel decisions such as hiring or
promotions. These statistics are very often misused. Here we provide a guide to
the factors which should be considered when using these so-called quantitative
measures to evaluate people. Rules of thumb are given for when begin to use
bibliometric measures when comparing otherwise similar candidates.Comment: to appear in Proceedings of Library and Information Science in
Astronomy VIII (LISA-8