Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
This is a paper about the ways in which data on serial publications by UK university researchers can be used to evaluate their research performance but to build up a range of other pictures about the structure of the research base and the use of journals
Evidence carries out research performance consultancy and data analyses for government departments, for individual universities and research institutes and for the European Commission and various bodies outside the UK
If you take citations as a measure of research performance, as a lot of people do, that means that UK research performance has effectively improved over the period from the mid eighties when the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) was introduced through to the present day
Summary
The Research Assessment Exercise cycle in the UK makes extensive use of outputs to evaluate research performance. Gross analysis of these and related data shows improvements in the UK’s research competitiveness. The RAE’s outputs’ database has a separate value as a rich and accessible data source of which a high proportion is information about serials. Each record can be tracked to an individual, an institution and a discipline. Analysis of this data allows us to explore the distribution of, for example, serial titles across disciplines and the degree of overlap between them. Analysts can track changing patterns of serial use within and between institutions and disciplines
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