Impact factors and h-index returned in search?

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Dear Ari, 
 
With hindsight, I wondered whether there are no legal limitations on the
collection of data at the individual level. There is an issue of privacy
protection involved, in my opinion. Did you happen to look into this in your
national context (Germany?) and at the EU-level? 
 
Is anybody on the list aware of some legal and/or ethical dispute about
this? Should we perhaps take steps as a community? There is an increasing
practice of using these statistics as the basis for hiring, promotion, etc.
 
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 
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From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Liebkowsky, James Mateo
Ari
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 12:41 PM
To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Impact factors and h-index returned in search?



Thanks for your replies. Obviously this is just one step in an ongoing and
thorough selection process.

 

Currently, we input an author into WoK, weed out the incorrect publications
(belonging to someone of the same name), which takes a lot of time, and
generate the H-index. Then we have to determine the impact factor of each
publication and add this up for a total impact factor. As all applicants
have sent in their publication lists, it's easiest to do this by hand - at
least you don't have to go through through the weeding out process.

 

What I'm looking for is a database where each author has a unique
identifier, so publications belonging to someone with the same name are
automatically weeded out. Each publication should be listed with its impact
factor, so that these can be easily tallied. And of course, the database
should provide automatic h-factor calculation.

 

Sounds like these features don't exist in one package yet.

 

Greetings,

JAL

 

 

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