Metrics: Do metrics matter?

Abbott, A. H. A.; Cyranoski, David; Jones, Nicola; Maher, Brendan A.; Schiermeier, Quirin; Noorden, Richard Van

doi:10.1038/465860a

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“…Scientists commonly use impact metrics to assist in making decisions regarding hiring, tenure, promotion, and salary increases. 7 For researchers in the humanities, where books are a major platform for scholarly output, demonstrating impact becomes more complicated. Citation indexes often include journal citations but exclude book citations.…”

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Scholarly Metrics Baseline: A Survey of Faculty Knowledge, Use, and Opinion about Scholarly Metrics

DeSanto¹,

Nichols²

2017

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This article presents the results of a faculty survey conducted at the University of Vermont during academic year 2014-2015. The survey asked faculty about: familiarity with scholarly metrics, metric-seeking habits, help-seeking habits, and the role of metrics in their department's tenure and promotion process. The survey also gathered faculty opinions on how well scholarly metrics reflect the importance of scholarly work and how faculty feel about administrators gathering institutional scholarly metric information. Results point to the necessity of understanding the campus landscape of faculty knowledge, opinion, importance, and use of scholarly metrics before engaging faculty in further discussions about quantifying the impact of their scholarly work. aculty at our institution possess a range of attitudes, knowledge, and opinions about the metrics that purport to measure the impact and influence of their scholarship. While many faculty work in departments that require and emphasize traditional scholarly metrics in the reappointment, tenure, and promotion process (RPT), other departments use nontraditional measures that better fit their discipline, and still other departments rely almost exclusively on professional judgment. We sought to capture at the University of Vermont, a midsized research institution, a scan of our campus' faculty, not only to assess disciplinary differences, but also to put together a campuswide picture of how our faculty use, perceive, and understand scholarly metrics.Five guiding questions shaped our survey work:• How familiar are faculty with scholarly metrics?• How/why/when do they seek them out?• Where do faculty turn for help?• What role do scholarly metrics play in the tenure and promotion process?• What opinions and thoughts do faculty members have about how well these metrics reflect the impact of a scholar's work? These guiding questions served as the framework for our survey and also serve as the outline for this article's results section.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Scholarly Metrics Baseline: A Survey of Faculty Knowledge, Use, and Opinion about Scholarly Metrics

DeSanto¹,

Nichols²

2017

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“…Bibliometrics must be interpreted with expertise -they can be gamed 7 . Measure research qualitatively as well as quantitatively 8 . A portfolio of scientific activities should also be required, showcasing the quality and continuity of a candidate's research.…”

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“…Assim, no Reino Unido, aumentou recentemente o peso da quantificação enquanto que na Austrália ocorreu o inverso, passando-se a atribuir maior peso ao julgamento por pares, com base em metodologias qualitativas, quando do julgamento da produção científica das instituições de pesquisa 5 . Além disso, as mensagens para as instituições e pesquisadores parecem ser confusas, quanto a como de fato as avaliações acontecem, como mostra uma consulta feita pela revista britânica Nature em 2010 6 , em que os pesquisadores referiram que os indicadores quantitativos (metrics) têm muito peso nos diferentes julgamentos, enquanto os administradores referiram que eles pesam pouco nas decisões! Como em alguma medida haverá sempre a convivência entre abordagens qualitativas e quantitativas nos julgamentos, está havendo grande investimento no estudo e comparação dos resultados das abordagens quantitativas e qualitativas e na proposição de novas abordagens que buscam superar a dicotomia 7 .…”

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Metrics: Do metrics matter?

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