The Effects of Ready to Use Bibliometric Indicators

TY - CONF

T1 - The Effects of Ready to Use Bibliometric Indicators

AU - Wildgaard, Lorna Elizabeth

N1 - Poster paper published in the Proceedings of the Science and Technology Indicators 2014, 3-5th September Leiden. Published by the University of Leiden, CWTS 2014

PY - 2014/9

Y1 - 2014/9

N2 - ‘Ready to use’ bibliometric indicators are being used by end users as never before. Administrators and evaluators for assessment purposes, whereas researchers add indicators to their CV in a competitive move to show visibility in the academic community. ‘Ready to use’ indicators are important as they provide researchers with the opportunity to evaluate the effect of their own published works before being evaluated by others. The numerical values of these indicators have personal significance to the individual as they can be interpreted as criteria of success or failure, therefore the bibliometric community must investigate the psychological effects of ‘ready to use’ indicator

AB - ‘Ready to use’ bibliometric indicators are being used by end users as never before. Administrators and evaluators for assessment purposes, whereas researchers add indicators to their CV in a competitive move to show visibility in the academic community. ‘Ready to use’ indicators are important as they provide researchers with the opportunity to evaluate the effect of their own published works before being evaluated by others. The numerical values of these indicators have personal significance to the individual as they can be interpreted as criteria of success or failure, therefore the bibliometric community must investigate the psychological effects of ‘ready to use’ indicator

M3 - Poster

ER -