British Classification Soc post-RAE talk/discussion - 6 July (fwd)

[Loet Leydesdorff]

"Publications, journal impact factors, citations, co-citations, citation
chronometrics (age, growth, latency to peak, decay rate), hub/authority
scores, h-index, prior funding, student counts, co-authorship scores,
endogamy/exogamy, textual proximity, download/co-downloads and their
chronometrics, etc. can all be tested and validated jointly, discipline by
discipline, against their RAE panel rankings in the forthcoming parallel
panel-based and metric RAE in 2008. The weights of each predictor can be
calibrated to maximize the joint correlation with the rankings."

Dear Steven, 

I took this from: 
Harnad, S. (2007) Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment
Exercise. In Proceedings of 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society
for Scientometrics and Informetrics (in press), Madrid, Spain; at
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13804/

It is very clear now: Your aim is to explain the RAE ranking (as the
dependent variable). I remain puzzled why one could wish to do so. One can
expect Type I and Type II errors in these rankings; I would expect both of
the order of 30% (given the literature). If you would be able to reproduce
("calibrate") these rankings using multi-variate regression, you would also
reproduce the error terms. 

With best wishes, 


Loet

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Loet Leydesdorff 
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), 
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. 
Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 
loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ 

 

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> talk/discussion - 6 July
> 
>     British Classification Society Meeting
>     "Analysis Methodologies for Post-RAE Scientometrics", and AGM 
>     Friday 6 July 2007, International Building room IN244
>     Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham
> 
> The selection of appropriate and/or best data analysis methodologies 
> are a result of a number of issues: the overriding goals of course, 
> but also the availability of well formatted, and ease of access to 
> such, data. The meeting will focus on the early stages of the 
> analysis 
> pipeline. An aim of this meeting is to discuss data analysis 
> methodologies in the context of what can be considered as open, 
> objective and universal in a metrics context of scholarly and applied 
> research. 
> 
>     Les Carr and Tim Brody (Intelligence, Agents, Media group,
>     Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton):
>     "Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research 
> Assessment Exercise"
> 
> There will be a number of short presentations also, preceding the
> discussion, including:
> 
>     Pedro Contreras, RHUL: 
>     "Indexing, storage, querying in a distributed document system" 
>     Mireille Summa, Paris-Dauphine:
>     "Editing and clustering matrices of time series"
>     Fionn Murtagh, RHUL: 
>     "The data selection, measurement and analysis chain: the role of  
>     correspondence analysis in measurement and scaling"
>     Boris Mirkin, Birkbeck:
>     "How the ACM classification can be used for profiling research 
>     organisations" (joint work with S. Nascimento and L. 
> Moniz Pereira)
> 
> The AGM of the British Classification Society will follow directly.  
> The day's meeting will start at 10am, and finish at 4.30pm.  
> 
> Registrations are necessary (there is no registration fee) to Janet 
> Hales at j.hales at cs.rhul.ac.uk
> 
> Further information from Fionn Murtagh at fionn at cs.rhul.ac.uk
> 
> Web address: http://thames.cs.rhul.ac.uk/bcs
>  
>