IS CITATION ANALYSIS A LEGITIMATE EVALUATION TOOL
IS CITATION ANALYSIS A LEGITIMATE EVALUATION TOOL
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DOI：
10.1007/bf02019306
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发表时间：
1979-01-01
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
GARFIELD, E
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作者：
GARFIELD, E
关于使用引文分析对科学绩效进行评级的综合讨论以及围绕它的争议。对引文统计的一般不利批评包括过多的负面引用(对值得攻击的不正确结果的引用)、自我引用(对引用作者的作品的引用)和对方法论论文的引用。包括对测量问题的讨论，例如计算多作者论文的引文量，区分具有相同姓氏(同形异义词)的多个人，以及引文分析实际测量的是什么。结论是，随着科学事业变得更大、更复杂，其在社会中的作用变得更加关键，评估和确定最大的贡献者将变得更加困难、昂贵和必要。如果使用得当，引文分析可以在相对较低的财务成本下，在评估过程中引入一种有用的客观性措施。
A comprehensive discussion on the use of citation analysis to rate scientific performance and the controversy surrounding it. The general adverse criticism that citation counts include an excessive number of negative citations (citations to incorrect results worthy of attack), self-citations (citations to the works of the citing authors), and citations to methodological papers is analyzed. Included are a discussion of measurement problems such as counting citations for multiauthored papers, distinguishing between more than one person with the same last name (homographs), and what it is that citation analysis actually measures. It is concluded that as the scientific enterprise becomes larger and more complex, and its role in society more critical, it will become more difficult, expensive and necessary to evaluate and identify the largest contributors. When properly used, citation analysis can introduce a useful measure of objectivity into the evaluation process at relatively low financial cost.