Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics Mgr. et Mgr. Stanislav Hasil Ústřední knihovna FF MU 26. 10. 2021 Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics1 Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics2 Bublio..what? ̶ Bibliometrics – the application of statistical methods of the study of bibliographic data. (Webster‘s dictionary) ̶ Part of Scientometrics ̶ Older sister of Altmetrics Source: https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/eddce405-0154-4b32-9b2f-d2dabc776104/gif Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics3 Little bit of history ̶ 1927 – Gross and Gross – first citation analysis ever – 3633 citations from 1926 volume of the Journal of the American Chemical Society <- to find out which journals to purchase ̶ Changes in second half of 20th century: ̶ Computers ̶ Internet ̶ Need (calling) for other than peer review system of evaluation Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics4 Source: clarivate.com Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics5 ̶ 1964– Science Citation Index (SCI) (Expanded 1988; today over 9200 journals) ̶ 1975 – Arts and Humanities Citation Index ̶ 1988 – Social Sciences Citation Index ̶ 2015 – Emerging Sources Citation Index ̶ Institute for Science information => Thomson Corporation => now Clarivate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1379084 1956 – Institute for Scientific Information Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics6 WOS – hugely US centric Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics7 AHCI https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/webofscience-arts-and-humanities-citation-index/ Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics8 SSCI https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/webofscience-ssci/ Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics9 ESCI Click to add text https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/webofscience-esci/ Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics10 Source: scopus.com Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics11 2004 – Scopus launched ̶ Elsevier – publishing company (2500 journals, 500 000 articles, yearly downloads around 1 billion) ̶ Netherland – West Europe Source: Scopus Content Coverage Guide [online elevier.com] Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics12 SCOPUS Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics13 SCOPUS – active titles indexed ̶ Hugely Eurocentric Source: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/how-scopus-works/content?dgcid=RN_AGCM_Sourced_300005030 Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics14 Metrics and other magic words ̶ D1, Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 ̶ Journal Impact factor ̶ CiteScore ̶ H-index ̶ Article Influence Score ̶ SCImago Journal Rank ̶ Eigenfactor ̶ See more here: https://editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/und erstanding-research-metrics/ Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albus_Dumbledore Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics15 WoS Comparison Scopus ̶ Older, bigger ̶ Journal metrics: JIF (Journal Impact Factor) ̶ Author metrics: h-index ̶ InCites ̶ Younger, faster growing ̶ Journal metrics: CiteScore ̶ Author metrics: h-index ̶ SciVal Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics16 Author identifiers Link Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics17 So – which is better? ̶ Both contain high quality peer-reviewed articles – but not all of them; you can find excellent articles indexed only in one of them or in neither ̶ Good for following new trends in the field ̶ Good for finding potential collaborators ̶ Bad for evaluation of researcher ̶ Not very reliable for humanities and arts ̶ BEWARE METRICS – Metric is the question, not the answer (Taylor and Francis). Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics18 Alternatives? – ERIH PLUS ̶ European Reference Index for the Humanities ̶ 2014 ̶ Europe focused ̶ Originally created by European Science Foundation ̶ Now NSD – Norwegian Centre for Research Data Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics19 Usage in evaluation – Faculty of Arts MU Thank you for your attention Mgr. et Mgr. Stanislav Hasil stanislav.hasil@phil.muni.cz Ústřední knihovna FF MU / Boring theory and golden apples of Bibliometrics20 Obraťte se na nás na knihovna@phil.muni.cz Více informací na webu knihovna.phil.muni.cz Aktuální dění sledujte na facebook.com/knihovnaffmu Jsme i na Instagramu instagram.com/knihovnaffmu