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Bibliometrics in the library
1. Bibliometrics in the library
Chances and pitfalls
Wouter Gerritsma, Wageningen UR
2. Evaluation cycle at universities
Supervised by VSNU/QANU
● 6 year cycle for external peer reviews
● After 3 years midterm review
● Unit of analysis (in Wageningen): Graduate schools
Citation analyses are not stipulated in the current
Standard Evaluation Protocol. But have become
mandatory at Wageningen UR, also at the social sciences
department and for the research institutes
3. SEP criteria
quality (including international academic reputation and
PhD training)
productivity (the relationship between input and output)
societal relevance (including valorisation)
vitality and feasibility (the ability to react adequately to
important changes in the environment).
4. Current Research Information Systems
Metis is a current research information system (CRIS)
● Information on all labour relations of all faculty and
staff
● Information on all projects
● Information on all outputs (metadata of
publications)
● Data entry at the chair group level
● Quality control by the library (inclusion of DOI)
5. Repository or Institutional Bibliography?
Wageningen Yield (WaY) is the repository of Wageningen
UR
● Synchronized overnight with the updates from Metis
● WaY contains metadata descriptions of all
Wageningen UR publication output
● WaY is our OA repository
6. Repository or Institutional Bibliography?
Wageningen Yield (WaY) is the repository of Wageningen
UR
● Synchronized overnight with the updates from Metis
● WaY contains metadata descriptions of all
Wageningen UR publication output
● WaY is our OA repository
● WaY is our tool for citation analyses
8. How do we compare numbers
Scientist Z. Math has a publication from 2001 with 17 citations
Scientist M. Biology has a publication from 2007 with 32 citations
11. For a single publication
Zee, F.P.v.d., G. Lettinga & J.A. Field (2001) Azo dye
decolourisation by anaerobic granular sludge.
Chemosphere 44:1169-1176.
● Citations from WoS: 94
Journal: Chemosphere
Categorised by ESI in Environment/Ecology
Baseline data for Environment/Ecology.
● Article from 2001 in Environment/ecology:
● On average: 19.36 citations;
● Top 10%: 44 citations; Top1%: 141 citations
Relative Impact: 94 / 19.36 = 4.9
12. Advanced bibliometric indicators
Follow Moed (1995) as closely as possible; but.....
Web of Science is used for citation data
● We can’t make corrections for self citations
Essential Science Indicators for baseline data (World
average, Top 10% and Top 1%)
● Limited number of research fields (22)
We can determine the representativeness of the citation
analysis!
15. How to aggregate from a single publication
to an oeuvre?
"CI" like indicator "MNCS" like indicator
16. Sources of citation data
Web of Science
Scopus
Google Scholar
Microsoft Academic
SciFinder; Psychinfo
ArXiv; Citeseer other open access repositories
Other altmetrics initiatives
17. Web of Science
Citation data (includes also citations from other
databases on Wok)
API to download citation data
Baselines from ESI
"New" product InCites
● Nijmegen has licensed InCites
18. Scopus
Citation data obtainable through an API
Benchmarking with SciVal Strata
Not yet fully developed
19. Google Scholar
Give them a few more years
Coverage?
Ghost citations
Content duplication
Benchmarking?
20. Benchmarking in GS?
Wouters, P. & R. Costas (2012). Users, narcissism and control. Utrecht, NL: SURFfoundation.
http://www.surffoundation.nl/en/publicaties/Pages/Users_narcissism_control.aspx.
21. Comment on GS by Jacsó
Jacsó, P. (2011). Google Scholar duped and deduped – the aura of “robometrics”. Online Information Review,
35(1): 154-160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14684521111113632
22. Altmetrics
Quickly developing
● ScienceCard Wouters, P. & R. Costas (2012). Users, narcissism and control.
● Total-Impact Utrecht, NL: SURFfoundation. http://www.surffoundation.nl/
en/publicaties/Pages/Users_narcissism_control.aspx.
● Readermeter
● Microsoft
Academic Search
● etc.
23. Why in the library?
Library is the functional manager of Metis / WaY because
of wide experience with bibliographic metadata
Library manages contracts with publisher(s) of external
databases that are being used
Library has experience in developing and maintaining
large databases
Library has ample experience in searching complicated
databases such as Web of Science
24. Advantage of using Metis / WaY
Improvements in publication lists, etc. recorded
Knowledge of, and experience with bibliometric analyses
is better institutionalized
Clarity / transparency for researchers
Analysis of a single unit of the institute offers
advantages for whole institute
Better understanding of our own researchers
● We know where they publish
● We know what they cite
● We know something about their impact
25. Library outreach
Improvement of the (meta)data quality in the repository
Many presentations for research groups during the
preparation for peer reviews
Presentations based on detailed studies of single groups
Library gives advice on publication strategies for groups
and individuals
● there is a huge demand for these presentations
Developed writing & citing courses with graduate schools
26. Closing the circle: Collection analysis
With the coupling of publications with WoS
We have gained insight in the relation
● Research group – Researchers – Publications –
Reference list
● It is feasible to assign journal usage at faculty
level, or more detailed (chair groups)
27. Lessons learned
Start small, gain experience
Show you can pull it off
How much is your university spending on CWTS?
Invest those resources in your own systems