Just a reminder of an interesting talk coming this Wednesday! Tea/Biscuit
will be served at 4pm.
Title: Bibliometrics and the REF & REF equalities analysis
Speaker: Mark Gittoes, Analytical Services Group, HEFCE
Venue: PSC Lecture Theatre , Lancaster University
Time: 2010-10-20 15:00 (Wed)
Please note the new time/venue for the talk.
All welcome!
Ting-Li Su
Secretary,
RSS Lancashire/Cumbria Local Group
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ABSTRACT
HEFCE are currently developing a new system for examining the quality of
research in UK HEIs. The primary focus of the system will be to identify
excellent research of all kinds and this will be assessed through a process
of expert review, potentially informed by citation information in subjects
where robust data are available. This talk reports on two technical aspects
of citation information which will help inform HEFCE's consultations on the
process.
An important part of any approach to bibliometrics is benchmarking. The
citation count of a piece of work, by itself, tells us little about it;
citations accumulate with time, and rates of citation vary substantially
between academic disciplines. In the first aspect discussed, we will look at
the approaches to benchmarking (or normalising) citation counts against
cohorts of similar outputs. Conventionally an output is benchmarked against
the mean citation score of its cohort. We will discuss an alternative
approach using percentiles.
In the second aspect, we will discuss an equalities analysis that was
carried out using citation information. This considered the question of
whether early career researchers (ECRs) were more or less likely than
non-ECRs to be 'highly cited' on two citation databases. The analysis also
considered other equality areas such as sex, ethnicity & disability and used
statistical models to compare staff on a like for like basis.
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