Bibliometrics and research evaluation : (Record no. 2583)

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fixed length control field 210528s2016 mau b 001 0 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780262035125
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International Standard Book Number 026203512X
Qualifying information (hardcover ;
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System control number (OCoLC)946160420
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050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number Q180.55.E9
Item number G564 2016
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gingras, Yves,
Dates associated with a name 1954-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Bibliometrics and research evaluation :
Remainder of title uses and abuses /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Yves Gingras.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. The MIT Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c2016.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 119 p.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement History and foundations of information science
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Translated from the French.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The origins of bibliometrics -- What bibliometrics teach us about the dynamics of science -- The proliferation of research evaluations -- The evaluation of research evaluation -- Conclusion: the universities' new clothes.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "The research evaluation market is booming. "Ranking," "metrics," "h-index," and "impact factors" are reigning buzzwords. Government and research administrators want to evaluate everything-teachers, professors, training programs, universities-using quantitative indicators. Among the tools used to measure "research excellence," bibliometrics-aggregate data on publications and citations-has become dominant. Bibliometrics is hailed as an "objective" measure of research quality, a quantitative measure more useful than "subjective" and intuitive evaluation methods such as peer review that have been used since scientific papers were first published in the seventeenth century. In this book, Yves Gingras offers a spirited argument against an unquestioning reliance on bibliometrics as an indicator of research quality. Gingras shows that bibliometric rankings have no real scientific validity, rarely measuring what they pretend to. Although the study of publication and citation patterns, at the proper scales, can yield insights on the global dynamics of science over time, ill-defined quantitative indicators often generate perverse and unintended effects on the direction of research. Moreover, abuse of bibliometrics occurs when data is manipulated to boost rankings. Gingras looks at the politics of evaluation and argues that using numbers can be a way to control scientists and diminish their autonomy in the evaluation process. Proposing precise criteria for establishing the validity of indicators at a given scale of analysis, Gingras questions why universities are so eager to let invalid indicators influence their research strategy"--The publisher.
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Bibliometrics.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Research
General subdivision Evaluation.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Education, Higher
General subdivision Research
-- Evaluation.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Universities and colleges
General subdivision Research
-- Evaluation.
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title History and foundations of information science.
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        Punsarn Library Punsarn Library General Stacks 17/06/2021 Q180.55.E9 G564 2016 PNLIB21062396 17/06/2021 17/06/2021 Books