Indicators for Research Performance Evaluation: An Overview

Froghi, Saied; Ahmed, Kamran; Finch, Adam; Fitzpatrick, John M.; Khan, Mohammed Shamim

doi:10.1111/j.1464-410x.2011.10856.x

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“…The use of both these indicators of research performance also captures to a large extent the multidimensional nature and complexity of scientific achievement, which would not happen if they were analysed in isolation (Froghi et al 2012). The metric advantages of one research performance indicator compensates for the disadvantages offered by the other indicator.…”

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PhD funding as a determinant of PhD and career research performance

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Cattaneo

Meoli

2016

Studies in Higher Education

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This article focuses on the effects of PhD funding on research performance both during the degree and throughout researchers' careers as measured through publications and citations. This analysis draws from a representative sample of researchers holding a doctorate based in Portugal and finds that those funded by grants during the PhD perform better than the self-funded ones. It also finds that different PhD funding sources produce different outcomes. PhD grants positively affect research performance during the PhD and throughout the career, when compared with research project grants. We argue that the latter funding scheme has more limited effects because of the constraints typical of early stage researchers involved in research project dynamics.

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PhD funding as a determinant of PhD and career research performance

Horta

Cattaneo

Meoli

2016

Studies in Higher Education

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“…Today, evaluation studies go further than merely giving the number of publications and citations for a researcher; numerous bibliometric indicators are also used (Grupp & Mogee, 2004), allowing the multi-dimensional nature of scientific achievement to be captured in its complexity (Froghi et al, 2012;Haslam & Laham, 2010). Pendlebury (2009) for example suggests using eight different metrics (such as the average number of publications per year or total citation counts).…”

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How to evaluate individual researchers working in the natural and life sciences meaningfully? A proposal of methods based on percentiles of citations

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Although bibliometrics has been a separate research field for many years, there is still no uniformity in the way bibliometric analyses are applied to individual researchers. Therefore, this study aims to set up proposals how to evaluate individual researchers working in the natural and life sciences. 2005 saw the introduction of the h index, which gives information about a researcher's productivity and the impact of his or her publications in a single number (h is the number of publications with at least h citations); however, it is not possible to cover the multidimensional complexity of research performance and to undertake inter-personal comparisons with this number. This study therefore includes recommendations for a set of indicators to be used for evaluating researchers. Our proposals relate to the selection of data on which an evaluation is based, the analysis of the data and the presentation of the results.

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“…The usefulness of the cited reference perspective can be justified by the fact that many bibliometric studies (and beyond) contain a note indicating that the citation impact of a paper, scientist, or group of scientists should be or is measured in a particular field. For example, “the result is the identification of high performers within a given scientific field” (Froghi et al., , p. 321). “Ideally, a measure would reflect an individual's relative contribution within his or her field” (Kreiman & Maunsell, ).…”

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The wisdom of citing scientists

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Marx

2013

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This Brief Communication discusses the benefits of citation analysis in research evaluation based on Galton's "Wisdom of Crowds " (1907). Citations are based on the assessment of many which is why they can be considered to have some credibility. However, we show that citations are incomplete assessments and that one cannot assume that a high number of citations correlates with a high level of usefulness. Only when one knows that a rarely cited paper has been widely read is it possible to say-strictly speaking-that it was obviously of little use for further research. Using a comparison with "like" data, we try to determine that cited reference analysis allows for a more meaningful analysis of bibliometric data than times-cited analysis.

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Indicators for Research Performance Evaluation: An Overview

Cited by 25 publications

References 38 publications

PhD funding as a determinant of PhD and career research performance

PhD funding as a determinant of PhD and career research performance

How to evaluate individual researchers working in the natural and life sciences meaningfully? A proposal of methods based on percentiles of citations

The wisdom of citing scientists

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