Fascinating!  Especially the fact that book publishers are assigned a level (making the assumption that everything they publish is at that level) and the multiplier for externally co-authored papers.  Thanks for this detailed response.

 

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Thanks for the interest. BFI or the bibliometric research indicator is a Danish system used to assign points to publications, and based on the points, to distribute a part of the public, basic funding to universities. Publications are registered in Pure databases at the universities and once a year harvested by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation. Similar systems exist in Norway and Finland.

 

BFI divides journals in two groups, level 1 and 2 where level 2 is the most prestigious. Whether a journal belongs to level 2 or 1 is determined by experts from the relevant research fields. There are 68 expert groups. The journals at level 2 account for 20 % of all publications in all journals annotated with a BFI level. If a journal is removed from level 2, it must be replaced by one or more journals with the same number of publications globally. From 2013 book publishers are also assigned to a BFI level.

 

Here you can see the points assigned to publication types, e.g. a monograph gets 5 or 8 points. I’m sorry, but all information is in Danish: http://ufm.dk/forskning-og-innovation/statistik-og-analyser/den-bibliometriske-forskningsindikator/vaegtning

 

Points are fractionalized. If three researchers co-author a paper they each get a third of the points. The lowest share is 1/10. Papers co-authored with researcher from other institutions, e.g. another Danish university, get a bonus. The points are multiplied by 1.25.

 

All publication must be peer reviewed and published in a “BFI” journal: http://ufm.dk/forskning-og-innovation/statistik-og-analyser/den-bibliometriske-forskningsindikator/autoritetslister/autoritetslisten-for-serier-2016-2017-xlsx.pdf

… or at a “BFI” book publisher: http://ufm.dk/forskning-og-innovation/statistik-og-analyser/den-bibliometriske-forskningsindikator/autoritetslister/autoritetslisten-for-forlag-2016-2017-til-hjemmeside.pdf

 

Best wishes

Marianne

 

 

Thanks for sharing this Marianne – very interesting.  I’d not come across the Danish Research Indicator (BFI) system before.  Are you able to provide us with a bit more information on this?  Is the system community-generated or proprietary?

 

Elizabeth Gadd MSc, MCLIP, FHEA

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Loughborough University

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