Measuring institutional output in the social sciences

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Dear Truyken, 

 

Are these databases publicly accessible? 

 

Best,

Loet

 

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Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), 
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. 
Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-842239111
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From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Ossenblok Truyken
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 10:53 AM
To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Measuring institutional output in the social
sciences

 


Dear mr Barjak

 

In Flanders (Belgium) we have built the Flemish Academic Bibliographic
Database for the Social Sciences and Humanities (VABB-SHW) to measure output
in the SSH. In Norway as well, a new database named the Current Research
Information System In Norway or CRIStin, has been constructed for this
purpose. CRIStin covers all publications of all disciplines, thus including
those of the SSH.

 

More information can be found in the following articles:

-        Engels Tim, Ossenblok Truyken, Spruyt Eric.- Changing publication
patterns in the social sciences and humanities, 2000-2009. Scientometrics:
an international journal for all quantitative aspects of the science of
science and science policy - ISSN 0138-9130 - 93:2(2012), p. 373-390 -
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1007/s11192-012-0680-2

-        Ossenblok Truyken, Engels Tim, Sivertsen Gunnar.- The
representation of the social sciences and humanities in the Web of Science :
a comparison of publication patterns and incentive structures in Flanders
and Norway (2005-9). Research evaluation - ISSN 0958-2029 - 21:4(2012), p.
280-290 -  http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1093/reseval/rvs019 

-        Schneider Jesper -An outline of the bibliometric indicator used for
performance-based funding of research institutions in Norway. European
Political Science, 8(3), 364-378 (2009) -  doi:10.1057/eps.2009.19 

 

 

Best regards

Truyken

 

Truyken Ossenblok

Doctoraatsstudent Expertisecentrum O&O Monitoring (ECOOM)

PhD student Centre for R&D Monitoring

Universiteit Antwerpen | ECOOM 

Middelheimlaan 1| 2020 Antwerpen | Belgium

Tel: +32 3 265 31 07 | truyken.ossenblok at ua.ac.be 

 <http://www.ecoom.be/> http://www.ecoom.be/vabb

 

 

From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Barjak Franz
Sent: donderdag 6 december 2012 14:25
To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Measuring institutional output in the social sciences

 


Dear list,

 

The weaknesses of using mainly journal-based databases for measuring output
in the social sciences and humanities are widely discussed and well known. I
would be interested in literature or approaches on how to measure
institutional output in the social sciences. I am looking to answers on
questions such as:

- What types of publications should be counted?

- Is there an accepted procedure for combining them into a publication index
or indices or, in other words, should different types of publications get
different weights? 

- How should such measures be normalised at institutional level? 

- Have institutional practices of measuring output ever been analysed or
compared?

 

Thanks for any suggestions and hints to literature.

Best wishes

Franz Barjak

 

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University of Applied Sciences 
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