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Research Policy Committee of Universities (dir.) (2007). The use of bibliometrics to measure research quality in UK higher education institutions. London : Universities UK. En ligne : <http://www.universities ... es/Publication-275.aspx>.
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| Resource type: Report/Documentation BibTeX citation key: EvidenceLtd2007a  |
Categories: General Keywords: scientométrie Creators: Evidence Ltd, Research Policy Committee of Universities Publisher: Universities UK (London) |
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It is the Government’s intention that the current method for determining the quality of university research – the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) – should be replaced after the next cycle is completed in 2008. Metrics, rather than peer-review, will be the focus of the new system and it is expected that bibliometrics (using counts of journal articles and their citations) will be a central quality index in this system. The objective of any change in the assessment method should be to sustain recent improvements in UK research performance. To do this, the metrics system will need not only to be technically correct but also to be acceptable to and inspire confidence among the researchers whose performance is assessed. Bibliometrics are probably the most useful of a number of variables that could feasibly be used to create a metric of some aspect of research performance. Thomson Scientific holds sound international databases of journals and their citations with good time, subject and institutional coverage. These data have characteristics (particularly in terms of publication and citation cultures of different fields) which mean that they must be interpreted and analysed with caution. They need to be normalised to account for year and discipline and the fact that their distribution is skewed. These factors will affect analyses and must be addressed with care. Added by: orey Last edited by: orey |
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La priorité immédiate du Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)est de développer des indicateurs quantitatifs pour les sciences et techniques, pendant que la recherche dans les autres aires disciplinaires continuera à être évaluée à travers des processus impliquant surtout les pairs. Dans les domaines de disciplines appliquées ou relatives à des politiques publiques, les productions clés sont moins susceptibles d'épouser toujours la forme d'articles de revues. Les indicateurs bibliométriques sont moins signifiants, techniquement difficiles à produire et beaucoup moins acceptables comme moyen de mesurer la qualité aux yeux des chercheurs. Added by: orey |
| Il existe un fossé de crédibilité entre ce que les chercheurs utilisent eux-mêmes à l'intérieur de leur communauté (comme les indicateurs de citation) et ce qu'ils seraient prêt à accepter comme mode d'évaluation de leur communauté. Added by: orey |