Citations to papers from Brazilian institutions: a more effective indicator to assess productivity and the impact of research in graduate programs

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Autor(a) principal: Meneghini, Rogerio [UNIFESP]
Data de Publicação: 2011
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-879X2011007500081
http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/33907
Resumo: A recent assessment of 4400 postgraduate courses in Brazil by CAPES (a federal government agency dedicated to the improvement of the quality of and research at the postgraduate level) stimulated a large amount of manifestations in the press, scientific journals and scientific congresses. This gigantic effort to classify 16,400 scientific journals in order to provide indicators for assessment proved to be puzzling and methodologically erroneous in terms of gauging the institutions from a metric point of view. A simple algorithm is proposed here to weigh the scientometric indicators that should be considered in the assessment of a scientific institution. I conclude here that the simple gauge of the total number of citations accounts for both the productivity of scientists and the impact of articles. the effort spent in this exercise is relatively small, and the sources of information are fully accessible. As an exercise to estimate the value of the methodology, 12 institutions of physics (10 from Brazil, one from the USA and one from Italy) have been evaluated.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Citations to papers from Brazilian institutions: a more effective indicator to assess productivity and the impact of research in graduate programs
title Citations to papers from Brazilian institutions: a more effective indicator to assess productivity and the impact of research in graduate programs
spellingShingle Citations to papers from Brazilian institutions: a more effective indicator to assess productivity and the impact of research in graduate programs
Meneghini, Rogerio [UNIFESP]
Scientometrics
Institutional assessment
CAPES
Scientific journals
Citations
title_short Citations to papers from Brazilian institutions: a more effective indicator to assess productivity and the impact of research in graduate programs
title_full Citations to papers from Brazilian institutions: a more effective indicator to assess productivity and the impact of research in graduate programs
title_fullStr Citations to papers from Brazilian institutions: a more effective indicator to assess productivity and the impact of research in graduate programs
title_full_unstemmed Citations to papers from Brazilian institutions: a more effective indicator to assess productivity and the impact of research in graduate programs
title_sort Citations to papers from Brazilian institutions: a more effective indicator to assess productivity and the impact of research in graduate programs
author Meneghini, Rogerio [UNIFESP]
author_facet Meneghini, Rogerio [UNIFESP]
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Meneghini, Rogerio [UNIFESP]
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Scientometrics
Institutional assessment
CAPES
Scientific journals
Citations
topic Scientometrics
Institutional assessment
CAPES
Scientific journals
Citations
description A recent assessment of 4400 postgraduate courses in Brazil by CAPES (a federal government agency dedicated to the improvement of the quality of and research at the postgraduate level) stimulated a large amount of manifestations in the press, scientific journals and scientific congresses. This gigantic effort to classify 16,400 scientific journals in order to provide indicators for assessment proved to be puzzling and methodologically erroneous in terms of gauging the institutions from a metric point of view. A simple algorithm is proposed here to weigh the scientometric indicators that should be considered in the assessment of a scientific institution. I conclude here that the simple gauge of the total number of citations accounts for both the productivity of scientists and the impact of articles. the effort spent in this exercise is relatively small, and the sources of information are fully accessible. As an exercise to estimate the value of the methodology, 12 institutions of physics (10 from Brazil, one from the USA and one from Italy) have been evaluated.
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