Impact of bibliometrics upon the science system: Inadvertent consequences?

By Peter Weingart. Scientometrics, 2005

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Statistics and Probability

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The h-index: Advantages, limitations and its relation with other bibliometric indicators at the micro level (2007, unknown): “The widespread use of the h-index in the assessment of scientists' careers might influence their publication behaviour, as has been described previously for other indicators (Butler, 2003; Jiménez Contreras, Moya Anegón, & Delgado López-Cózar, 2003; Weingart, 2005).”
Evaluation practices and effects of indicator use : a literature review (2016, background): “Many scientometric contributions take a normative stance regarding ‘unanticipated effects’ of quantitative performance measures on the science system and debate whether the field itself might play a more active role in promoting ‘good practices’ (Weingart 2005, Van Dalen and Henkens 2012).”
Informetrics at the beginning of the 21st century - A review (2008, background): “Mowery and colleagues (Mowery, Nelson, Sampat, & Ziedonis, 2001; Mowery & Ziedonis, 2002) studied the changes that occurred to patenting by US universities after the introduction of the Bayh-Dole act, that allows for the transfer of exclusive control over many government funded inventions to univers”
Free-Riding on Power Laws: questioning the validity of the Impact Factor as a measure of research quality in organization studies (2011, unknown): “For further discussion of these issues, see e.g. Boor (1982), Hecht et al. (1998), Kurmin (2003), Reedijk and Moen (2008), Seglen (1997) or Weingart (2005).”
Tracking the evolution of waste recycling research using overlay maps of science. (2011, background): “ged (Gläser and Laudel, 2007; pp. 108- 109).29 However, many analysts have warned against the ‗inadvertent‘ but ‗potentially destructive‘ consequences of bibliometric rankings for the science system (Weingart, 2005, p. 130; Roessner, 2000) and the capture of evaluation by disciplinary elites (Martin”
Citations, Citation Indicators, and Research Quality: An Overview of Basic Concepts and Theories (2019, background): “Moreover, the application of citation indicators has also been criticized more generally, with respect to their validity as performance measures and their potentially negative impact upon the research system (MacRoberts & MacRoberts, 1989; Osterloh & Frey, 2015; Weingart, 2004).”
How wide is the “knowing-doing” gap in invasion biology? (2010, background): “linked to constructs such as impact, influence and visibility, and that researchers operating within a social system of science that rewards citations (Lawrence 2002, 2007) will tend to publish ‘‘less risky, mainstream rather than borderline papers’’ that have a greater chance of being cited (Weinga”
“Not Just for the Money?” How Financial Incentives Affect the Number of Publications at Danish Research Institutions (2008, background): “This can be done by slicing their research to the ‘‘least publishable unit’’ (Lawrence 2003; Weingart 2005) or submitting their results to more (lower ranking) journals.”
What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior (2008, background): “…of citing behavior hardly surprising, as the construction of scientific theory is generally characterized by ambivalence, for Liu (1997) and Weingart (2005) the long-term oversimplification of thinking in terms of two theories reflects the absence of one satisfactory and accepted theory on…”
Constitutive Effects of Performance Indicators: Getting beyond unintended consequences (2014, unknown): “…(McBriarty, 1988; Smith, 1995; Doran, 2001; Vulliamy and Webb, 2001; van Thiel and Leeuw, 2002; Robinson, 2003; Courtney et al., 2004; Talbot, 2005; Weingart, 2005; Werner and Asch, 2005; Brennan, 2006; Wilson et al., 2006; Espeland and Sauder, 2007; Hood, 2007; Osterloh, 2010; Osterloh and Frey,…”
The bibliometric analysis of scholarly production: How great is the impact? (2015, methodology): “…method applied in bibliometrics as an approximate measure of scientific quality particularly in the case of individual researchers, rankings of universities and institutions (Waltman et al. 2012; Weingart 2005) or simply for judging the impact of publications (Frandsen and Rousseau 2005).”