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Indicators as judgment devices: An empirical study of citizen bibliometrics in research evaluation
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A researcher's number of publications has been a fundamental merit in the competition for academic positions since the late 18th century. Today, the simple counting of publications has been supplemented with a whole range of bibliometric indicators, which supposedly not only measures the volume of research but also its impact. In this study, we investigate how bibliometrics are used for evaluating the impact and quality of publications in two specific settings: biomedicine and economics. Our ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Research Evaluation Journal website
- Volume:
- 26
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 169-180
- Publication date:
- 2017-05-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-05-15
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- EISSN:
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1471-5449
- ISSN:
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0958-2029
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pubs:724422
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- pubs:724422
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724422
- Deposit date:
- 2017-09-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Hammarfelt and Rushforth
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
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Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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