Applied Evaluative Informetrics: Part 1

This manuscript is a preprint version of Part 1 (General Introduction and Synopsis) of the book Applied Evaluative Informetrics, to be published by Springer in the summer of 2017. This book presents an introduction to the field of applied evaluative informetrics, and is written for interested scholars and students from all domains of science and scholarship. It sketches the field's history, recent achievements, and its potential and limits. It explains the notion of multi-dimensional research performance, and discusses the pros and cons of 28 citation-, patent-, reputation- and altmetrics-based indicators. In addition, it presents quantitative research assessment as an evaluation science, and focuses on the role of extra-informetric factors in the development of indicators, and on the policy context of their application. It also discusses the way forward, both for users and for developers of informetric tools.Comment: The posted version is a preprint (author copy) of Part 1 (General Introduction and Synopsis) of a book entitled Applied Evaluative Bibliometrics, to be published by Springer in the summer of 201

Diseño de un sistema de información y evaluación científica (Doctoral Thesis by Daniel Torres-Salinas)

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Alternative approaches to the quantitative assessment of academic research

 There is a greater need to evaluate the research, and yet it is increasingly more complex to do so. The main criticisms that the inadequate use of informetric indicators receive are exposed. Alternative ways to use them to measure the research performance in an informed and responsible way, exploiting its potential adequately, are suggested

Trends in Russian research output indexed in Scopus and Web of Science

Trends are analysed in the annual number of documents published by Russian institutions and indexed in Scopus and Web of Science, giving special attention to the time period starting in the year 2013 in which the Project 5-100 was launched by the Russian Government. Numbers are broken down by document type, publication language, type of source, research discipline, country and source. It is concluded that Russian publication counts strongly depend upon the database used, and upon changes in database coverage, and that one should be cautious when using indicators derived from WoS, and especially from Scopus, as tools in the measurement of research performance and international orientation of the Russian science system.Comment: Author copy of a manuscript accepted for publication in the journal Scientometrics, May 201

Toward New Indicators of a Journal's Manuscript Peer Review Process

Journal impact factor (JIF) is among the most frequently used bibliometric indicators in scientific-scholarly journal and research assessment. This paper addresses the question as to why this indicator has become so attractive and pervasive. It defends the position that the most effective way to reduce the role of citation based journal metrics in journal and research assessment is developing indicators of the quality of journals' manuscript peer review process, based on an analysis of this process itself, as reflected in the written communication between authors, referees and journal editors in electronic submission systems This approach combines computational linguistic tools from the domain of 'digital humanities' with 'classical humanistic' text analysis and a profound knowledge of the manuscript peer review and the publication process