Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics has devoted an entire issue to the question of the use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance. All articles are Open Access. I'd like to see the responses on blogs - let me know if you write/read one, please.
Peter does the first one.
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From my buddy Jonas Nordin, retiring head editor of Sweden's main historical journal, a well-argued paper about the problems of applying bibliometric assessments and Open Access practices in the humanities.
The standard commercial library citation tools, Web of Science (including their newish Proceedings product) and Scopus, have always been a bit iffy for computer science.
This was the last day of comps - it's up to waiting for the results. The essays were emailed out to the readers immediately at 4pm when I finished.
This day's questions were much more attractive.
First exam was Information Retrieval - a minor area. I had to pick one of three:
The answer turns out to be "Arrhenius, of course" and the details turn out to be not desperately interestin
What a great special issue! Thanks for posting the link! I've collected some quotes from the articles:
http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.369