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Comment: Citation Statistics
We welcome this critique of simplistic one-dimensional measures of academic performance, in particular the naive use of impact factors and the h-index, and we can only extend sympathy to colleagues who are being judged using some of the techniques described in the paper. In particular we welcome the report’s emphasis on the need for careful modeling of citation data rather than relying on simpl...
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We discuss the paper “Citation Statistics” by the Joint Committee on Quantitative Assessment of Research. In particular, we focus on a necessary feature of “good” measures for ranking scientific authors: that good measures must able to accurately distinguish between authors.
متن کاملComment: Citation Statistics
I remember a US colleague commenting, in the mid 1980s, on the predilection of deans and other university managers for assessing academic statisticians’ performance in terms of the numbers of papers they published. The managers, he said, “don’t have many skills, but they can count.” It’s not clear whether the management science of assessing research performance in universities has advanced grea...
متن کاملCitation Statistics
This is a report about the use and misuse of citation data in the assessment of scientific research. The idea that research assessment must be done using “simple and objective” methods is increasingly prevalent today. The “simple and objective” methods are broadly interpreted as bibliometrics, that is, citation data and the statistics derived from them. There is a belief that citation statistic...
متن کاملRejoinder: Citation Statistics
We would like to thank the discussants for reading our report and for their insightful and constructive comments. To start our brief response, we would like to quote Bernard Silverman’s phrase “reducing an assessment of an individual to a single number is both morally and professionally repugnant.” Bernard puts it strongly, but his underlying point, with which we strongly agree, is that “resear...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Statistical Science
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0883-4237
DOI: 10.1214/09-sts285b