Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation [electronic resource] / by Henk F. Moed.

Executive Summary -- General Introduction and Main Conclusions -- General Introduction -- Basic Notions and General Conclusions -- Synopsis -- Empirical and Theoretical Chapters -- Citation Analysis of Basic Science Research Departments -- Citation Analysis of Scientific Journals -- Basic Principles, Citation Links and Terminology -- ISI Coverage by Discipline -- Implications for the Use of the ISI Citation Indexes in Research Evaluation -- Differences Between Science, Social Sciences and Humanities -- Expanded Citation Analysis: A Case Study in Economics -- A Case Study of Research Performance in Law -- Introductory Notes on Accuracy Issues -- Accuracy of Citation Counts -- Problems with the Names of Authors and Institutions, and with the Delimitation of Subfields -- What do References and Citations Measure? -- Towards a Theory of Citation: Some Building Blocks -- Implications for the Use of Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation -- Peer Review and the Use and Validity of Citation Analysis -- Analysis of Peer Assessments of Research Departments -- Analysis of a National Research Council -- Did Global Scientific Publication Productivity Increase During the 1980s and 1990s? -- Measuring Trends in National Publication Output -- Does International Scientific Collaboration Pay? -- Do US Scientists Overcite Papers from their Own Country? -- Development of New Indicators -- Electronic Publishing, New Databases and Search Engines -- Further Research.

This book deals with the evaluation of scholarly research performance, and focuses on the contribution of scholarly work to the advancement of scholarly knowledge. It provides a wide range of important facts, and corrects a number of common misunderstandings about citation analysis. It introduces basic notions and distinctions, and deals both with theoretical and technical aspects, and with its applicability in various policy contexts. This book is also critical and underlines the limits of citation analysis in research evaluation. In order to be used properly as a research evaluation tool, it is essential that all participants have insight into the nature of citation analysis, how its indicators are constructed and calculated, what the various theoretical positions state about what they measure, and what are their potentialities and limitations, particularly in relation to peer review. This book aims at providing such insight.