Steele, Colin and Butler, Linda and Kingsley, Danny (2006) The
Publishing Imperative: the pervasive influence of publication metrics.
Learned Publishing 19(4):277-290.
http://eprints.anu.edu.au/archive/00003523/
ABSTRACT: This article summarises the effects of the increasing
global trend towards measuring research quality and effectiveness
through, in particular, publication-based metrics, and its effects on
scholarly communication. Such metrics are increasingly influencing
the behaviour patterns of administrators, publishers, librarians
and researchers. Impact and citation measures, which often rely
solely on Thomson Scientific data, are examined in the context of
university league tables and research assessment exercises. The
need to establish alternate metrics, particularly for the social
sciences and humanities, is emphasised, as is an holistic approach
to scholarly communication agendas.
Pertinent Prior American Scientist Open Access Forum Topic Threads:
UK "RAE" Evaluations (began Nov 2000)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#1018
Scientometric OAI Search Engines (began Aug 2002)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#2238
Australia stirs on metrics (June 2006)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5417.html
Big Brother and Digitometrics (began May 2001)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#1298
UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) review (began Oct 2002)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#2326
Need for systematic scientometric analyses of open-access
data (began Dec 2002)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#2522
Potential Metric Abuses (and their Potential Metric
Antidotes) (began Jan 2003)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#2643
Future UK RAEs to be Metrics-Based (began Mar 2006)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#5251
Let 1000 RAE Metric Flowers Bloom: Avoid Matthew Effect as
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (Jun 2006)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5418.html
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