On the Possibilities of Evaluating Properties of Scientific Documents on the Basis of their Citations Count (or again: What Property is Reflected by Citations Count par excellence, after all?). Part 2: Quality?

Лазарев, В. С.

doi:10.15802/unilib/2019_187406

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Bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics. Part 4. Object

Лазарев

2022

Science Management: Theory and Practice

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A simplified and sometimes vulgar understanding of the role of scientometrics in the management of science makes it necessary to better understand its essential characteristics. In this paper, scientometrics is considered in interrelations with bibliometrics and informetrics that are the fields of knowledge closest to it. In relation to the three mentioned “metrics”, this part discusses the representation of their methods. Consideration of the methodological “arsenal” of the three “metrics” made us possible to come to the conclusion that there are no such specific methods in any of them, the presence of which would be a distinctive feature of exactly and exclusively this “metrics”. The opinion is expressed that the high prevalenceof some methodological component in any of the “metrics”, the use of general scientific methods in them and the use of econometrics and sociometrics techniques in scientometric research cannot be treated as distinguishing features of this or that “metrics”, as the principle of delimitation of one “metrics” from another. As it follows from the very term “metrics”, the methods of bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics are methods of quantitative research. The emergence of new “metrics” methods was characteristic of the entire twentieth century, and, of course, there is no reason to believe that the list of these methods known today is final, complete.

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Bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics. Part 4. Object

Лазарев

2022

Science Management: Theory and Practice

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On the Value of a Scientific Document. Part 2

Lazarev

2024

Science Management: Theory and Practice

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After a critical consideration – through the prism of unspecified concepts of the value and quality of a scientific document – of examples of terminological confusion about the designation of a property of a scientific document represented by its citedness and use (that was given in the first part of the article), further consideration of the issue of the property being represented is provided. The need to continue the in-depth analysis and appropriate polemics as well as to strengthen the argument that the citedness of scientific documents directly represents their use, which, in its turn, represents their value, is caused by the fact that a number of experts either do not associate citation rate with value, or are indifferent to the issue of the property of documents represented by their citedness, or confuse the value of a document with its quality. Moreover, there is an authoritative point of view according to which the use is only one of the factors that cause scientific documents to be cited; while just access to experts' documents is considered, on the contrary, as an undoubted evidence of their use – though in this case it remains unknown whether the full text of the requested document would be at least briefly browsed by the user. The author gives a critical consideration of these issues. An opinion is expressed that a certain misunderstanding of the concept “use of a document” is due to its involuntary confusion with the traditional library concept “use of a library stock”. It is also shown that taking the philosophical notion of value for consideration can add even more confusion to the terminology used to denote a property of a scientific document represented by its citedness par excellence. The author makes an attempt to clarify the concepts and content of the terms “value of a scientific document” and “use of a scientific document”.

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Эссе О Ценности Научного Документа

Лазарев

2024

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Рассмотрена терминологическая путаница, связанная с наименованиями свойств научных документов, отображаемых фактом их цитируемости. В очередной раз аргументируется утверждение, что непосредственно цитируемость научных документов отражает их использование, которое, в свою очередь, отражает их ценность. Необходимость продолжения соответствующей полемики и усиления аргументации вызваны тем, что очень многие авторитетные специалисты либо не ассоциируют цитируемость с ценностью, либо безразличны к вопросу о свойстве документов, отображаемых цитируемостью (будучи при этом озабочены «совершенствованием индикаторов», отображающих неназванное ими свойство), либо смешивают ценность документа с его качеством. Более того, существует авторитетная точка зрения, согласно которой использование – лишь один из факторов, вызывающих цитируемость научных документов; при этом обращения к документам считаются, напротив, несомненным свидетельством их использования, в то время как в этом случае остается неизвестным, будет ли полный текст затребованного документа хотя бы бегло просмотрен пользователем. Эти вопросы получают в эссе свое критическое рассмотрение. Высказывается мнение, что путаница с понятием «использование документа» связано с невольным смешиванием его с традиционной библиотечной концепцией «использования фонда». Показано, как приятие к рассмотрению философского понятия ценности может внести еще больше путаницы в терминологию, используемую для обозначения свойства научного документа, отражаемого par excellence его цитируемостью. Критически проанализированы существующие в библиотековедении определения «ценности документа». Предпринимается попытка уточнения понятий и содержания терминов «ценность научного документа» и «использование научного документа».

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On the Possibilities of Evaluating Properties of Scientific Documents on the Basis of their Citations Count (or again: What Property is Reflected by Citations Count par excellence, after all?). Part 2: Quality?

Cited by 3 publications

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Bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics. Part 4. Object

Bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics. Part 4. Object

On the Value of a Scientific Document. Part 2

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