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Indicators TG

Indicators TG. Keith G Jeffery (caretaker leader). Responsibilities. The TG leader is expected to develop an active programme of research and generation of best practice (linked with TG Best Practice/DRIS)

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Indicators TG

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  1. Indicators TG Keith G Jeffery (caretaker leader)

  2. Responsibilities The TG leader is expected to develop an active programme of research and generation of best practice (linked with TG Best Practice/DRIS) in the use of indicators (scientometrics, bibliometrics) for evaluating research. The TG should develop a catalogue of known methods with appropriate analysis of their effectiveness and efficiency. The expected output is CERIF-compliant software services (jointly with CERIF TG and Architecture TG) to perform evaluation of research including for commonly used national or international methods.

  3. Why? • Much interest in many countries and euroCRIS member organisations • Evaluation of research by funders • Benchmarking for comparison of research institutions • Basis of ‘Norwegian model’ • Touched on by several JISC-funded projects in UK • In particular Snowball involving Elsevier

  4. The Problem • Various degrees of dissatisfaction with current scientometrics and bibliometrics • Scientometrics: agreement on set of parameters within one country or internationally difficult • ‘Norwegian model’ imposes for NO • In UK REF imposes some as do the funding councils in UK • Bibliometrics • Huge discussion on conventional citation-based metrics and generated factors (e.g. H factor) • Desire to include online browsing / downloading metrics • With online systems could do more sophisticated metrics e.g. +ve / -ve citations; self-citations for vanity or for real reference;

  5. … and further • Desire to measure impact of research • Outputs, outcomes, impact • Forward / backward chaining • UK JISC MICE Project • Data model now incorporated in CERIF

  6. Indicators TG • To tackle these problems with a programme of work • Projects • Communications • To be defined by the newly elected board member responsible • Meantime, as a start Elsevier have kindly agreed to make the Snowball metrics openly available

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