Publication types, citation rates and evaluation

Scientometrics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 473-494

  Bourke, P ^a   Butler, Linda ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EID: 0012876721     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02019259     Document Type: Article

References (13)

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2. P. BOURKE, L. BUTLER, Monitoring Research in the Periphery: Australia and the ISI indices. Research Evaluation and Policy Project Monograph Series No. 3, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, 1966.
3. National Board of Employment, Education and Training (NBEET). Quantitative Indicators of Australian Academic Research, Commissioned Report No. 27, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1994.
4. The CPR database includes information on research output in both published and unpublished modes, but our analysis is restricted to published output only.
5. P. BOURKE, L. BUTLER, 1996, op. cit.
6. The fields listed here are from the Australian Standard Research Classification which was prepared by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for use in the measurement and analysis of research and experimental development in Australia.
7. P. BOURKE, L. BUTLER, The use of bibliometric data in evaluating a research university: Issues and measures, In: M. KOENIG, A. BOOKSTEIN (Eds), Fifth International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics Proceedings - 1995, Learned Information Inc., NJ., 1995, pp. 93-102.
8. The Research School of Social Sciences and the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
9. S. MARICIC, Impact factors of peripheral journals, Journal of Documentation, 45(4) (1989) 330-331.
10. L. J. ZMAIC, S. MARICIC, V. SIMEON, Visibility of peripheral journals through the Science Citation Index, Information Processing & Management, (1989) 25.
11. The six IAS research schools referred to in this table are the Research School of Chemistry (RSC), John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR), Mount Stromlo and Siding Springs Observatories (MSSSO), Research School of Earth Sciences (RSES), Research School of Physical Sciences (RSPS) and Research School of Biological Sciences (RSBS).
12. It is interesting to look at the two most highly cited non-SCI journal publications. One is from RSBS and appeared in the Journal of Molecular and Applied Genetics in 1981. This journal appears to have become a source journal for Current Contents in 1984 and 1985. The other article was from JCSMR and appeared in the journal Comprehensive Virology. This journal was a source journal for the SCI in 1983 and 1984. The details of these two highly cited non-SCI journal articles (or, more accurately, non-SCI at the time of their publication) suggests that the common story for the more highly cited Australian publications of this type may be that they are in journals on the fringe of being accepted for indexing by ISI.
13. In this particular instance the departments are not directly comparable as they undertake research in quite different fields; but if this analysis were of 'like' departments, it is easy to see the significance of the choice of citation rate.