Quality Versus Quantity: Assessing Individual Research Performance

[Eugene Garfield]

Quality Versus Quantity: Assessing Individual Research Performance

Author(s): Sahel, JA (Sahel, Jose-Alain)
Source: SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE  Volume: 3  Issue: 84  Article 
Number: 84cm13  DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3002249  Published: MAY 25 2011  

Abstract: Evaluating individual research performance is a complex task that 
ideally examines productivity, scientic impact, and research quality-a task that 
metrics alone have been unable to achieve. In January 2011, the French 
Academy of Sciences published a report on current bibliometric (citation metric) 
methods for evaluating individual researchers, as well as recommendations for 
the integration of quality assessment. Here, I draw on key issues raised by this 
report and comment on the suggestions for improving existing research 
evaluation practices.

Language: English
Document Type: Article
KeyWords Plus: GOOGLE-SCHOLAR; IMPACT FACTOR; CITATION; SCIENCE; 
INDEX; JOURNALS; SCOPUS; WEB

Addresses: [Sahel, JA] INSERM, U968, F-75012 Paris, France
[Sahel, JA] Univ Paris 06, UM80, Inst Vis, F-75012 Paris, France
[Sahel, JA] CNRS, UMR 7210, F-75012 Paris, France
[Sahel, JA] Ctr Hosp Natl Ophtalmol Quinze Vingts, INSERM DHOS CIC 503, F-
75012 Paris, France
[Sahel, JA] Fdn Ophtalmol Adolphe Rothschild, F-75019 Paris, France
[Sahel, JA] UCL, Inst Ophthalmol, London EC1V 9EL, England
[Sahel, JA] Acad Sci Inst France, F-75006 Paris, France
Reprint Address: Sahel, JA (reprint author), INSERM, U968, F-75012 Paris, 
France

E-mail Address: j.sahel at gmail.com
ISSN: 1946-6234
URL: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/3/84/84cm13.full?sid=b5d44f34-2df5-
4474-ae4f-2a3b59cf08ad