Abstract
We investigated how bibliometric indicators such as publication count and citation count affect the assessment of research performance by computing various bibliometric scores of the works of Korean LIS faculty members and comparing the rankings by those scores. For the study data, we used the publication and citation data of 159 tenure-track faculty members of Library and Information Science departments in 34 Korean universities. The study results showed correlation between publication count and citation count for authors with many publications but the opposite evidence for authors with few publications. The study results suggest that as authors publish more and more work, citations to their work tend to increase along with publication count. However, for junior faculty members who have not yet accumulated enough publications, citations to their work are of great importance in assessing their research performance. The study data also showed that there are marked differences in the magnitude of citations between papers published in Korean journals and papers published in international journals.
Highlights
In the fairy tale of “Snow White,” the evil queen asks the magic mirror the following question: “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” From a research perspective, this is a loaded question that invites consideration of a range of issues on quality assessment
In order to test the reliability and stability of bibliometric indicators (BI) for research assessment, we compared the rankings of faculty members by various BI scores, such as publication count, citation count, and h-index
We investigated how bibliometric indicators such as publication count and citation count affect the assessment of research performance by computing various bibliometric scores of the works of 159 Korean Library and Information Science (LIS) faculty members and comparing the rankings by those scores
Summary
In the fairy tale of “Snow White,” the evil queen asks the magic mirror the following question: “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” From a research perspective, this is a loaded question that invites consideration of a range of issues on quality assessment. Research assessment, being an exercise in quality assessment, shares much in common with assessment of beauty, one may argue that research is much more tangible Open Access. Under this license, authors reserve the copyright for their content; they permit anyone to unrestrictedly use, distribute, and reproduce the content in any medium as far as the original authors and source are cited. No. than beauty and easier to quantify. The determination of research potential encompasses consideration of three key aspects: capability, experience, and impact.
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