This paper examines the bibliometric characteristics of book editors and non-editors, focussing on gender, career stage, number of publications and collaboration practices. The data consist of 8970 Flemish affiliated researchers with at least one publication between 2000 and 2011 in the comprehensive Flemish academic bibliometric database (VABB-SHW). The analysis shows that most book editors ar...

This study examines the use of journal rankings and proposes a new method of measuring IS journal impact based on the Hirsch family of indices (Hirsch 2005; Sidiropoulos et al. 2006). Journal rankings are a very important exercise in academia since they impact tenure and promotion decisions. Current methods employed to rank journal influence are shown to be subjective. We propose that the Hirsc...

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...

The scientific output 1994-2014 of the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) was bibliometrically analysed. It was found that the majority of the papers have been published as international cooperations and rank above world average. Analysis of the papers’ content reveals that UNIS works and publishes in a wide variety of scientific topics.

This paper sets forth a general methodology for conducting bibliometric analyses at the micro level. It combines several indicators grouped into three factors or dimensions which characterize different aspects of scientific performance. Different profiles or “classes” of scientists are described according to their research performance in each dimension. A series of results based on the findings...

The paper discusses the adoption of the Norwegian Publication Model in a Danish context and examines arguments for supplementing or substitution the current mechanism where reward is based on publication activity with one based on citations. Based on national publication data from 2009 from the Danish model, belonging to the science and technology research area, and corresponding citation data,...

Citation and publication profiles are gaining importance for the evaluation of top researchers when it comes to the appropriation of funding for excellence programs or career promotion judgments. Indicators like the Normalized Mean Citation Rate, the hindex or other distinguishing measures are increasingly used to picture the characteristics of individual scholars. Using bibliometric techniques...

In recent years there has been a sharp increase in collaborations among scholars and there are studies on the effects of scientific collaboration on scholars’ performance. This study examines the hypothesis that geographically diverse scientific collaboration is associated with research impact. Here, the approach is differentiated from other studies by: (a) focusing on publications rather than ...

Evaluation of research activities of universities of Ukraine and Belarus: a set of bibliometric indicators and its implementation Vladimir Lazarev, Serhii Nazarovets and Alexey Skalaban Monitoring bibliometric indicators of University rankings is considered as a subject of a University library activity. In order to fulfill comparative assessment of research activities of the universities of Ukr...