Becoming Metric-Wise: A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers

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Ronald Rousseau (Researcher at KU Leuven and at the University of Antwerp) Leo Egghe (University of Hasselt, Belgium)

Becoming Metric-Wise

A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers

Ronald Rousseau (Researcher at KU Leuven and at the University of Antwerp), Leo Egghe (University of Hasselt, Belgium), Raf Guns (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

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Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
04 January 2018

Research methods: general; Social research & statistics; Scientific standards

Series: Chandos Information Professional Series

Becoming Metric-Wise: A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers aims to inform researchers about metrics so that they become aware of the evaluative techniques being applied to their scientific output. Understanding these concepts will help them during their funding initiatives, and in hiring and tenure. The book not only describes what indicators do (or are designed to do, which is not always the same thing), but also gives precise mathematical formulae so that indicators can be properly understood and evaluated. Metrics have become a critical issue in science, with widespread international discussion taking place on the subject across scientific journals and organizations.

As researchers should know the publication-citation context, the mathematical formulae of indicators being used by evaluating committees and their consequences, and how such indicators might be misused, this book provides an ideal tome on the topic.

By: Ronald Rousseau (Researcher at KU Leuven and at the University of Antwerp), Leo Egghe (University of Hasselt, Belgium), Raf Guns (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Imprint: Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 151mm,
Weight: 650g
ISBN: 9780081024744
ISBN 10: 0081024746
Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
Pages: 402
Publication Date: 04 January 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. Scientific research and communication 3. Publishing 4. Statistics 5. Publication and citation analysis 6. Journal citation analysis 7. Indicators 8. Research evaluation 9. The informetric laws 10. Networks 11. Timeline of Informetrics

Dr Ronald Rousseau is Researcher at The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in the Department of Industrial Sciences and Technology. Rousseau; with Leo Egghe, received the Derek de Solla Price award on scientometrics (2001). He is the former president of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, and co-author of Introduction to Informetrics, also published by Elsevier. Leo Egghe is the founding Editor in Chief of the Elsevier Journal, Journal of Informetrics. Along with Ronald Rousseau, he received the Derek de Solla Price award on scientometrics (2001) and was in 2014 among highly cited scientists according to Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics. Raf Guns is a researcher at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He received the 2013 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award for his doctoral dissertation: ‘Missing links: Predicting interactions based on a multi-relational network structure with applications in informetrics’.