Ranking strategy for graduate programs evaluation

7th International Conference on Information Technology and Application, ICITA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 59-64

  Lopes, Giseli Rabello ^a   Moro, Mirella M ^b   Da Silva, Roberto ^a   Barbosa, Eduardo M ^b   De Oliveira, José Palazzo Moreira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Measurement; Quality Assessment; Social Networks

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE; ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE; EVALUATION METHOD; FUNDING AGENCIES; GRADUATE PROGRAM; HIGH PRESSURE; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CRITERIA; RANKING STRATEGY; RESEARCH GROUPS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

MEASUREMENTS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84868134244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (29)

1. L. Egghe, "An improvement of the h-index: the g-index," ISSI Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 8-9, 2006.
2. -, "The hirsch-index and related impact measures," Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, vol. 44, pp. 65-114, 2010.
3. J. E. Hirsch, "An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 102, no. 46, pp. 16 569-16 572, Nov. 2005.
4. F. Habibzadeh and M. Yadollahie, "Journal weighted impact factor: A proposal," Journal of Informetrics, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 164-172, Apr. 2008.
5. J. Nicolaisen and T. F. Frandsen, "The reference return ratio," Journal of Informetrics, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 128-135, Apr. 2008.
6. J. Ren and R. N. Taylor, "Automatic and versatile publications ranking for research institutions and scholars," Commun. ACM, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 81-85, 2007.
7. J.-F. Molinari and A. Molinari, "A new methodology for ranking scientific institutions," Scientometrics, vol. 75, pp. 163-174, 2008.
8. R. da Silva et al., "Statistics for ranking program committees and editorial boards," CoRR, vol. abs/1002.1060, 2010.
9. S. Yan and D. Lee, "Toward alternative measures for ranking venues: a case of database research community," in Procs. of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2007, pp. 235-244.
10. Y. Ding, "Scientific collaboration and endorsement: Network analysis of coauthorshipand citation networks," Journal of Informetrics, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 187 - 203, 2011.
11. C. Wang et al., "Mining advisor-advisee relationships from research publication networks," in SIGKDD Intl. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Washington, DC, USA, 2010, pp. 203-212.
12. M. E. J. Newman, "The structure and function of complex networks," SIAM Review, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 167-256, 2003.
13. S. Wasserman and K. Faust, Social Network Analysis: methods and applications. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
14. J. A. Barnes, "Class and committees in a norwegian island parish," Human Relations, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 39-58, Feb. 1954.
15. R. Adler et al., "Citation statistics," Technical Report, Jun. 2008, available at: http://www.mathunion.org/Publications/Report/ CitationStatistics.
16. M. da Luz et al., "Institutional h-index: The performance of a new metric in the evaluation of brazilian psychiatric post-graduation programs," Scientometrics, vol. 77, pp. 361-368, 2008.
17. A. F. J. van Raan, "Comparison of the hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment for 147 chemistry research groups," Scientometrics, vol. 67, pp. 491-502, 2006.
18. M. A. M. Souto et al., "An ontological approach for the quality assessment of computer science conferences," in Procs. of Intl. Workshop on Quality of Information Systems, Auckland, New Zealand, 2007.
19. G. V. Menezes et al., "A geographical analysis of knowledge production in computer science," in Procs. of Intl. Conf. on World Wide Web, 2009, pp. 1041-1050.
20. M. E. J. Newman, "Scientific collaboration networks. i. network construction and fundamental results," Physical Review E, vol. 64, no. 1, p. 016131, 2001.
21. A.-L. Barabási, Linked: The New Science of Networks. Basic Books, 2002.
22. A. F. Smeaton et al., "Analysis of papers from twenty-five years of sigir conferences: What have we been doing for the last quarter of a century," ACM SIGIR Forum, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 49-53, 2003.
23. L. C. Freeman, "Centrality in social networks: Conceptual clarification," Social Networks, vol. 1, pp. 215-239, 1979.
24. B. Hoser et al., "Semantic network analysis of ontologies," in The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, 2006, pp. 514-529.
25. P. V. Marsden, "Egocentric and sociocentric measures of network centrality," Social Networks, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 407-422, 2002.
26. M. Najiminaini, L. Subedi, and L. Trajkovic, "Analysis of internet topologies: a historical view," in IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits Syst., May 2009, pp. 1697-1700.
27. F. Reitz and O. Hoffmann, "An analysis of the evolving coverage of computer science sub-fields in the dblp digital library," in Procs. of European Conf. on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2010, pp. 216-227.
28. A. H. F. Laender et al., "Assessing the research and education quality of the top Brazilian Computer Science graduate programs," SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 135-145, 2008.
29. S. Siegel and N. J. Castellan, Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988.