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dc.contributor.authorOlsen, Kai A.
dc.contributor.authorMalizia, Alessio
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-01T11:49:13Z
dc.date.available2023-03-01T11:49:13Z
dc.date.created2017-08-22T12:23:25Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Electronic Publishing. 2017, 20 (1).en_US
dc.identifier.issn1080-2711
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3054942
dc.description.abstractIn many EU countries there is a requirement to count research, i.e., to measure and prove its value. These numbers, often produced automatically based on the impact of journals, are used to rank universities, to determine fund distribution, to evaluate research proposals, and to determine the scientific merit of each researcher. While the real value of research may be difficult to measure, one avoids this problem by counting papers and citations in well-known journals. That is, the measured impact of a paper (and the scientific contribution) is defined to be equal to the impact of the journal that publishes it. The journal impact (and its scientific value) is then based on the references to papers in this journal. This ignores the fact that there may be huge differences between papers in the same journal; that there are significant discrepancies between impact values of different scientific areas; that research results may be offered outside the journals; and that citations may not be a good index for value. Since research is a collaborative activity, it may also be difficult to measure the contributions of each individual scientist. However, the real danger is not that the contributions may be counted wrongly, but that the measuring systems will also have a strong influence on the way we perform research. Keywords: Counting research, h-index, journal publications, JCR, ranking.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0020.102
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleCounting research ⇒ directing research : the hazard of using simple metrics to evaluate scientific contributions : an EU experienceen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.source.volume20en_US
dc.source.journalJournal of Electronic Publishingen_US
dc.source.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3998/3336451.0020.102
dc.identifier.cristin1487854
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