Bibliometrics of individual researchers
....key topic at a special plenary at the 14th ISSI Conference two weeks ago in Vienna. The plenary was an initiative taken by Jochen Gläser (Technical University Berlin), Ismael Rafols (Ingenio, Spanish National Research Council / Polytechnical University Valencia), Wolfgang Glänzel
(Leuven University) and myself. The plenary aimed to give a new
stimulus to the debate how to apply, and how not to apply, performance
indicators of individual scientists and scholars. Although not a new
debate – the pioneers of bibliometrics already paid attention to this
problem – it has become more urgent because of the almost insatiable
demand for objective data and indicators in the management of
universities and research institutes. ......
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