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

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

Eugene Garfield's Influences upon the Future of Evaluative Informetrics

This contribution highlights Eugene Garfield's influences upon the author's views and proposals. In addition, it presents the author's perspective on the future of evaluative informetrics, based on his monograph Applied Evaluative Informetrics published in September 2017. It discusses main criticisms against the current practices in the use of informetric indicators in research assessment, and sketches a series alternative approaches