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On tit for tat: Franceschini and Maisano versus ANVUR regarding the Italian research assessment exercise VQR 2011-2014
The response by Benedetto, Checchi, Graziosi & Malgarini (2017) (hereafter
"BCG&M"), past and current members of the Italian Agency for Evaluation of
University and Research Systems (ANVUR), to Franceschini and Maisano's ("F&M")
article (2017), inevitably draws us into the debate. BCG&M in fact complain
"that almost all criticisms to the evaluation procedures adopted in the two
Italian research assessments VQR 2004-2010 and 2011-2014 limit themselves to
criticize the procedures without proposing anything new and more apt to the
scope". Since it is us who raised most criticisms in the literature, we welcome
this opportunity to retrace our vainly "constructive" recommendations, made
with the hope of contributing to assessments of the Italian research system
more in line with the state of the art in scientometrics. We see it as equally
interesting to confront the problem of the failure of knowledge transfer from
R&D (scholars) to engineering and production (ANVUR's practitioners) in the
Italian VQRs. We will provide a few notes to help the reader understand the
context for this failure. We hope that these, together with our more specific
comments, will also assist in communicating the reasons for the level of
scientometric competence expressed in BCG&M's heated response to F&M's
criticism
Rivals for the crown: Reply to Opthof and Leydesdorff
We reply to the criticism of Opthof and Leydesdorff [arXiv:1002.2769] on the
way in which our institute applies journal and field normalizations to citation
counts. We point out why we believe most of the criticism is unjustified, but
we also indicate where we think Opthof and Leydesdorff raise a valid point
The measurement of science and technology in China.
This paper introduced the background about the measurement of science and technology in China and selectively introduced the most recent statistic results released by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China.China; Science and technology; Measurement;
CitNetExplorer: A new software tool for analyzing and visualizing citation networks
We present CitNetExplorer, a new software tool for analyzing and visualizing
citation networks of scientific publications. CitNetExplorer can for instance
be used to study the development of a research field, to delineate the
literature on a research topic, and to support literature reviewing. We first
introduce the main concepts that need to be understood when working with
CitNetExplorer. We then demonstrate CitNetExplorer by using the tool to analyze
the scientometric literature and the literature on community detection in
networks. Finally, we discuss some technical details on the construction,
visualization, and analysis of citation networks in CitNetExplorer
Fundamentals of the strategic analysis of the information
If the organizations, in the current information society, intend to be competitive, cannot be exposed
to the risk of ignorance. But if they aim for continuity in their progress, they cannot be exposed at
an external, extreme and continued pressure either, because this would burst the organization with
too much information without the filters that sort its significance. The key for the organizations is
not the information, but the flow of selected and treated information that these are capable of
assimilating and that is useful for them to design their strategy.
In front of this righteous requirement, Competitive Intelligence (CI) is defined as the systematic
process of retrieval, treatment, analysis, representation, interpretation, and diffusion of the
information about industry and the competitors, all with the final objective of giving support to the
decision making process. CI represents an organizational function with huge strategic value
Citation Statistics from 110 Years of Physical Review
Publicly available data reveal long-term systematic features about citation
statistics and how papers are referenced. The data also tell fascinating
citation histories of individual articles.Comment: This is esssentially identical to the article that appeared in the
June 2005 issue of Physics Toda
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