The Metric Tide: Report of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management

Wilsdon, James; Allen, Liz; Belfiore, Eleonora; Campbell, Philip; Curry, Stephen; Hill, Steven A.; Jones, Richard D; Kain, Roger J. P.; Kerridge, Simon; Thelwall, Mike; Tinkler, Jane; Viney, I.V.F.; Wouters, Paul; Hill, Jude; Johnson, Ben F.

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“…Scholars have long debated their preferences for one approach over the other, but the realisation and acknowledgement of the shortcomings inherent in both approaches have witnessed a paradigm shift and call for the utilisation of both approaches in evaluating the quality of research performance, including the quality of journals. Hence, Moed (2007:575) (Hicks & Wouters 2015;Mingers & Yang 2017;Wilsdon et al 2015).…”

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Information ethics: From professional ethics to social ethics. How my thoughts evolved over the years – A narrative

Britz¹

2021

Information Knowledge and Technology for Development in Africa

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Peer review declarationThe publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer Review of Scholarly Books'. The manuscript was subjected to rigorous twostep peer review prior to publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the authors. The reviewers were independent of the publisher and/or authors in question. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the manuscript be published. Where the reviewers recommended revision and/or improvements to the manuscript, the authors responded adequately to such recommendations. Research JustificationThis scholarly book focuses on the relationship between information knowledge and technology with regard to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The latter is understood to be a set of highly disruptive technologies blurring the lines between the physical, digital and biological spheres, collectively referred to as cyber-physical systems. Technologies such as cognitive computing, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, big data, augmented or virtual reality, 3D systems, artificial intelligence and power supply are transforming social, economic and political systems. Ultimately, we need to transform, be more creative and innovative to develop and sustain existing and emerging capabilities in the 'new normal', which has been accidentally accelerated by COVID-19 requirements. Technologies for digital transformation create the opportunity for Africa to bypass traditional phases of industrial development as the continent has done successfully in the past. Challenges addressed in the book are inequality, social justice, ethics, access and success, policy, infrastructure and cybersecurity.The book contributes to the ongoing discourse among scholars in Africa. It consists of 10 chapters where conceptual and field research are combined. The first chapter, by Trywell Kalusopa from the University of Namibia, focuses on e-government, with an emphasis on digital government in the digital economy. The second chapter, by Kelvin J. Bwalya from the University of Johannesburg, focuses on e-government from an artificial intelligence perspective. The third chapter, by Tom Kwanya from the Technical University of Kenya, focuses on the perception of robots for information services. In the fourth chapter, Johannes Britz, from the University of Wisconsin, discusses information ethics in the digital economy. This is followed by the fifth chapter on information access and personal data by Mpho Ngoepe from the University of South Africa. The sixth chapter, by Neil D. Evans from the University of Zululand, is dedicated to e-teaching and e-learning from a Library and Information Education (LISE) perspective. In the seventh chapter, Dennis Ocholla, also from the University of Zululand, focuses on LISE in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The eighth chapter presents Ocholla's questions on the dimensions and direction of information and knowledge management education. The ninth chapt...

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Information ethics: From professional ethics to social ethics. How my thoughts evolved over the years – A narrative

Britz¹

2021

Information Knowledge and Technology for Development in Africa

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“…Крім того, журнальна стаття вважається основним каналом представлення результатів у природничих науках, проте у СГН, крім журнальних статей, вчені активно комунікують й за допомогою публікації книг. Таким чином, неповне та вибіркове охоплення комерційними базами даних наукових книг перешкоджає бібліометристам ефективно оцінювати роботу дослідників у СГН [5].…”

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Використання Бібліометрії В Соціальних Та Гуманітарних Науках

Nazarovets

2021

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“…Over the years, the necessity to consider disciplinary differences in research evaluation systems has emerged and many studies have been carried out on the need to evaluate social sciences and humanities differently (e.g. Huang & Chang, 2008;Waltman, 2016;Wilsdon et al, 2015). Several of these studies concluded that the types of research outputs, citation patterns and main features of cited documents, perspectives on interdisciplinarity, production languages, national and international publication patterns, production speed and collaboration habits in the social sciences have field-specific characteristics.…”

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“…Today, many initiatives and movements have been launched to show the emerging need for different assessment methods for social sciences (e.g. European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences (https://enressh.eu/); Hicks et al, 2015;Wilsdon et al, 2015).…”

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Current Research Evaluation Topics in Social Sciences

Taskin

2021

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The social sciences, as a collection of scholarly fields, have quite different characteristics compared to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and medicine) fields. Still, researchers in the social sciences have been evaluated similarly to researchers in STEM for many years. However, many studies have been published regarding the need to evaluate social sciences differently. This chapter examines research evaluation studies published in social sciences and presents the advantages and disadvantages of current research evaluation topics including altmetrics, content-based citation analysis, peer-review, and scientific visualization

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The Metric Tide: Report of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management

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Information ethics: From professional ethics to social ethics. How my thoughts evolved over the years – A narrative

Information ethics: From professional ethics to social ethics. How my thoughts evolved over the years – A narrative

Використання Бібліометрії В Соціальних Та Гуманітарних Науках

Current Research Evaluation Topics in Social Sciences

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