Performance metrics
Frank P Pijpers has a close look at performance metrics, with the forthcoming Research Assessment Exercise in mind. Scientific output varies between research fields and between disciplines within a field such as astrophysics. Even in fields where publication is the primary output, there is considera...
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| Published in: | Astronomy & geophysics : the journal of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 47; no. 6; pp. 6.17 - 6.18 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01-12-2006
Oxford University Press |
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| Summary: | Frank P Pijpers has a close look at performance metrics, with the forthcoming Research Assessment Exercise in mind. Scientific output varies between research fields and between disciplines within a field such as astrophysics. Even in fields where publication is the primary output, there is considerable variation in publication and and hence in citation rates. Data from the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System is used to illustrate this problem and argue against a “one size fits all” approach to perfomance metrics, especially over the short time-span covered by the Research Assessment Exercise. |
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| Bibliography: | This research made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System Bibliographic Services. istex:480B4D7E47733E28D06CACF8E3B2033216D18658 ark:/67375/HXZ-4760XKTR-K ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 1366-8781 1468-4004 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2006.47617.x |