Language, Culture and Traversing the Scholarly Evaluation Landscape

Zuccala, Alesia A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68554-0_17

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“…have generated five publications that are indexed in 159 library catalogs associated with WorldCat. This example, as other authors have pointed out (Zuccala et. al, 2018), indicates that we are not counting books in a physical sense (i.e.…”

Section: Worldcat Identitiessupporting

confidence: 88%

“…In addition, Table 6 may allow us to take an objective approach to the significance and the terminological debate. In this paper we use the terms 'impact' as well as 'book diffusion' for library catalog measures but the term 'cultural presence' or 'cultural visibility' (Zuccala, 2018) may be more precise. The results have shown that the vast platforms and users in WorldCat are from the United States and this could be a signal of this cultural 'availability', 'presence' or 'visibility'.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Exploring WorldCat identities as an altmetric information source: a library catalog analysis experiment in the field of Scientometrics

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Assessing the impact of scholarly books is a difficult research evaluation problem. Library Catalog Analysis facilitates the quantitative study, at different levels, of the impact and diffusion of academic books based on data about their availability in libraries. The WorldCat global catalog collates data on library holdings, offering a range of tools including the novel WorldCat Identities. This is based on author profiles and provides indicators relating to the availability of their books in library catalogs. Here, we investigate this new tool to identify its strengths and weaknesses based on a sample of Bibliometrics and Scientometrics authors. We review the problems that this entails and compare Library Catalog Analysis indicators with Google Scholar and Web of Science citations. The results show that WorldCat Identities can be a useful tool for book impact assessment but the value of its data is undermined by the provision of massive collections of ebooks to academic libraries.

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Exploring WorldCat identities as an altmetric information source: a library catalog analysis experiment in the field of Scientometrics

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“…The evaluation of the quality of scientific research has always been a crucial issue in the development process of every society (Aksnes & Taxt, 2004;Peruginelli, & Faro, 2018;Zuccala, 2018). Investing in scientific research has opened up new opportunities for every society and, through innovative products and services it has produced, has influenced every facet of global society.…”

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Research Quality Evaluation in Social Sciences: The Case of Criteria on the Conditions and Requirements for Academic Promotion in Serbia, Slovenia and Montenegro

Popović¹,

Peković²,

Matić³

2019

Monten. J. Sports Sci. Med.

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were selected to be subjects in this study. The sources used for the analyses in this study were the official criteria on the condition and requirements for academic promotion at the abovementioned universities. The authors used a descriptive method with the consulting of competent sources and personal experiences. First, it is interesting to note that the universities in Serbia and Slovenia follow official documents at two levels: one at the national level issued by the relevant higher education council/agency and the second at the university level issued by the senate of each university, whose criteria are more strict in terms of quantitative requirements. However, this is not the case in Montenegro, where universities follow only the national criteria in the research quality evaluation. In each country, evaluation exercises usually recognize three fields, one of which is social sciences and humanities, which is concerned with an entire range of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scientific areas. Comparing the minimum standards for the appointment of university teachers, it is essential to highlight that Slovenian regulations are the most demanding, especially with regards to quantitative criteria, while Serbian and Montenegrin criteria are similar to each other; however, it is necessary to highlight that Montenegrin regulations contain some unusual criteria, such as the requirement that scientific research work must be achieved through one single-author paper published in an international journal for promotion to academic titles at all three levels (assistant, associate and full professor) in social sciences and humanities; however, this is not the case in other academic fields.

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Language, Culture and Traversing the Scholarly Evaluation Landscape

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Exploring WorldCat identities as an altmetric information source: a library catalog analysis experiment in the field of Scientometrics

Exploring WorldCat identities as an altmetric information source: a library catalog analysis experiment in the field of Scientometrics

Research Quality Evaluation in Social Sciences: The Case of Criteria on the Conditions and Requirements for Academic Promotion in Serbia, Slovenia and Montenegro

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