Ambiguity, bias, and compromise: An abc of bibliometric-based performance indicators

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 765-771

  Todd, Peter A ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 66349117255     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a424     Document Type: Note

References (43)

1. Anonymous, 2005, "Not-so-deep impact" Nature 435 1003
2. Ball P, 2008, "A longer paper gathers more citations" Nature 455 274-275
3. Bollen J, Van de Sompel H, Smith JA, Luce R, 2005, "Toward alternative metrics of journal impact: a comparison of download and citation data" Source Information Processing and Management 41 1419-1440
4. Bornmann L, Daniel H D, 2008, "What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior" Journal of Documentation 64 45-80
5. Bornmann L, Mutz R, Neuhaus C, Daniel H D, 2008, "Citation counts for research evaluation: standards of good practice for analyzing bibliometric data and presenting and interpreting results" Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 8 93-102
6. Browman H I, Stergiou K I, 2008, "Factors and indices are one thing, deciding who is scholarly, why they are scholarly, and the relative value of their scholarship is something else entirely" Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 8 1-3
7. Butler L, 2008, "Using a balanced approach to bibliometrics: quantitative performance measures in the Australian Research Quality Framework" Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 8 83-92
8. Campbell P, 2008, "Escape from the impact factor" Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 8 5-7
9. Chew M, Villanueva E V, Van Der Weydon MB, 2007, "Life and times of the impact factor: retrospective analysis of trends for seven medical journals (1994-2005) and their editor's views" Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 100 142-150
10. Egghe L, 2006, "Theory and practise of the g-index" Scientometrics 69 131-152
11. Ferguson R, 2003, "Publication practices in physical and human geography: a comment on Nigel Thrift's 'The future of geography"' Geoforum 34 9-11
12. Garfield E, 1996, "How can impact factors be improved?" British Medical Journal 313 411-413
13. Garfield E, 1997, "Dispelling a few common myths about Journal Citation Impacts" The Scientist 11 11
14. Giske J, 2008, "Benefitting from bibliometry" Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 8 79-81
15. Harnad S, 2008, "Validating research performance metrics against peer rankings" Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 8 103-107
16. Harzing A, van der Wal R, 2008, "Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis" Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 8 61-73
17. Hirsch J E, 2005, "An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 16569-16572
18. Hudson J, 2007, "Be known by the company you keep: citations: quality or chance?" Scientometrics 71 231-238
19. Johnston R, 2005, "Editorial" Environment and Planning A 37 2-8
20. Johnston R, 2008, "Do you want to be counted or subject to a light touch? Research assessment in the UK and the social sciences - continued" Environment and Planning A 40 507-514
21. Ladle R J, Jepson P, Araújo M, Whittaker R J, 2004, "Dangers of crying wolf over risk of extinctions" Nature 428 799
22. Lawrence P A, 2003, "The politics of publication" Nature 422 259-261
23. Lawrence P A, 2007, "The mismeasurement of science" Current Biology 17 R583-R585
24. Leimu R, Koricheva J, 2005, "What determines the citation frequency of ecological papers?" Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20 28-32
25. Levia D F, Underwood S J, 2004, "Hydrological research and the status of physical geography journals: Increasing the impact of physical geography in the academy" The Professional Geographer 56 345-349
26. Meho L I, Yang K, 2007, "Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of Science versus Scopus and Google Scholar" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58 2105-2125
27. Monastersky R, 2005, "The number that's devouring science" The Chronicle of Higher Education 52 A12-A17
28. Nieminen P, Rucker G, Miettunen J, Carpenter J, Schumacher M, 2007, "Statistically significant papers in psychiatry were cited more often than others" Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 60 939-946
29. Opatrný T, 2008, "Playing the system to give low impact journal more clout" Nature 455 167
30. Rohli R V, Liu K B, 2008, "Citation of research in journals of interest to applied geographers" Applied Geography 28 151-167
31. Ruiz J M G, 2008, "International citations of the Spanish geography journals" Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles 46 389-391
32. Sala S D, Brooks J, 2008, "Multi-authors' self-citation: a further impact factor bias?" Cortex 44 1139-1145
33. Schutte H K, Švec J G, 2007, "Reaction of on the current trend of impact factor measures" Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica 59 281-285
34. Seglen P O, 1997, "Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research" British Medical Journal 314 498-502
35. Simkin M V, Roychowdhury V P, 2003, "Read before you cite!" Complex System 14 269
36. Sutherland W J, 1999, "What do impact factors tell us?" Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14 382-384
37. Todd P A, Ladle R J, 2008a, "Citations: poor practices by authors reduce their value" Nature 451 244
38. Todd P A, Ladle R J, 2008b, "Hidden dangers of a 'citation culture'" Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 8 13-16
39. Todd P A, Yeo D C J, Li D, Ladle R J, 2007, "Citing practices in ecology: can we trust our own words?" Oikos 116 1599-1601
40. White H D, 2001, "Authors as citers over time" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 52 87-108
41. Woodside AG, 2009, "Journal and author impact metrics: an editorial" Journal of Business Research 62 1-4
42. Yeung H W-C, 2002, "Deciphering citations" Environment and Planning A 34 2093-2106
43. Zitt M, Bassecoulard E, 2008, "Challenges for scientometric indicators: data demining, knowledge-flow measurements and diversity issues" Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 8 49-60