Paper: Scientific Activity in Higher Education: Personal and Institutional Assessment

[B.V. Toshev]

B.V. Toshev. Scientific Activity in Higher Education: Personal and
Institutional Assessment. BJSEP 1, 35-42 (2007)[In Bulgarian]

Abstract. Education and research belong together - this expresses the very
university idea. Research should provide new scientific results. These
should be published. The system of the scholarly journals is organized in
two levels. The first level includes both the primary research journals and
scholarly journals with more expanded audience. The second level includes
the secondary research journals. A few Bulgarian journals are presented
there. Citation analysis is of an importance mainly because it is heavily
used in science policy and research evaluation professionals. The most
popular indicators in such considerations are the impact factor (IF), the
immediacy index (II) and the response time (t1). The meaning and application
of these paramaters are explained. The incorrect use of the impact factor in
the Bulgarian evaluation practice is mentioned. New indicators that would
characterize quantitatively the scientific achievements of the researchers 
are proposed: efficiency e=nk, n and k - number of author's publications and
their citations, respectively, and a personal impact factor PIF=q/m where q
is the number of citations in a given year of m author's publications,
published in two previous years. The problem of the assessment of higher
education institutions is considered in detail. The change of three
indicators at least should be identified during the years. These are: S=Q/P
(Q stands for the number of citations for a given year for the whole faculty
N, which publishes in the year in question P publications), L/M and M/N, M,L
- number of prospective/graduated students for a given school year.

Keywords: scholarly journals, scientometrics, personal assessment of
researchers, institutional evaluation of higher education

References: 12

Author's E-Mail: toshev at chem.uni-sofia.bg
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Bulgarian Journal of Science and Education Policy (BJSEP), Volume 1, 1-275
(2007)
ISSN 1313-1958
Publisher: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press