The purposes of bibliometric research (another newbie / outsider question)

[Michel J. Menou]

There are other topics
- effectiveness of research funding
- interaction among stakeholders, in particular industry-academia
- regional concentration and strengths (sub national level, e.g. the
work of Dou)

What is your e) ?

Michel


Jonathan Levitt wrote:

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>Hi All,
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>Encouraged by the response that Christina Pikas received to her posting, I
>have decided to follow her example and posted a message.  In common with
>Christina, I hope you'll forgive this question (and maybe answer it!).
>
>As part of my postgraduate research, I am conducting a three-stage
>investigation of the purposes of bibliometric research:
>Stage 1: I emailed a sample of bibliometric researchers asking ‘What do you
>consider to be the main purposes of bibliometric research?’
>Stage 2: I collated these responses to form a set of purposes that contains
>all the purposes that I received in Stage 1.
>Stage 3: I plan to survey a larger sample of bibliometric researchers than
>in Stage 1 asking them to rate on a Likert scale my list of purposes.
>
>I have completed Stages 1 and 2 and, before implementing Stage 3, would be
>very grateful for feedback on my purposes of bibliometrics (for instance,
>purposes that I have omitted or revised wording of my purposes).
>
>I suggest (in alphabetical order) nine purposes:
>“Bibliometric research seeks to develop and use tools for measuring and
>mapping:
>(a)  Interrelationships between different branches of knowledge.
>(b)  The development of knowledge.
>(c)  The extent of internationalisation of research.
>(d)  The extent of research collaboration.
>(e)  The literature in research topics.
>(f)  The research productivity of countries.
>(g)  The research productivity of individuals.
>(h)  The research productivity of teams.
>(i)  The use of knowledge.”
>
>I would be very grateful to receive any feedback that cannot prejudice
>Stage 3 of my investigation (for instance, please don’t send your Likert
>scale rating of my purposes to this list).
>
>Thank you very much,
>Jonathan Levitt,
>Research Student,
>University College London.
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