AW: [SIGMETRICS] Impact factors and h-index returned in search?

[Liebkowsky, James Mateo Ari]

Dear Loet,

 

That's an interesting question. However, in this case, it's not being
used as a basis for hiring. There are no elimination rounds based on any
of these factors. Instead, the complete application is examined,
including teaching experience, qualifications, focus of research
interest etc.

 

Kind regards,

AL 

 

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Von: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] Im Auftrag von Loet Leydesdorff
Gesendet: Samstag, 19. April 2008 14:32
An: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Betreff: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Impact factors and h-index returned in search?

 

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

 

________________________________

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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Mateo Ari
	Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 12:41 PM
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	Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Impact factors and h-index returned in
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	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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