Studies on Utilizing the Three Famous International Index Systems to Evaluate Scientific Research Level of Higher Learning Institutions

Xun Liu,Yong-Chang Huang,Wei-Liang Qian,Changyu Huang

doi:10.1038/npre.2010.4835.1

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AbstractScience Citation Index (SCI), The Engineering Index (EI) and Index to Scientific & Technical Proceeding (ISTP) are widely accepted and used to evaluate the scientific research level of higher learning institutions by many country's science and technology field currently. After research, we point out the blemishes in this method and put forward the problems that need to be noticed, and then, under current conditions, bring forward brand-new standard and method to estimate research level, efficiency, fund exploitation and so on. One shouldn't over-emphasize the total amount of papers collected in SCI, EI & ISTP when evaluating the scientific research level of higher learning institutions, whereas using ‘comprehensive factor’ analysis method can make it more scientific and efficient.

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& ISTP when evaluating the scientific research level of higher learning institutions, whereas using ‘comprehensive factor’ analysis method can make it more scientific and efficient
The top-ten universities in China according to the amounts of articles embodied by Science Citation Index (SCI), Engineering Index (EI) and ISTP are shown in the following tables
The evaluating systems for higher learning institutions based on SCI, EI & ISTP as well inevitably have some fatal shortcomings and fail to be really objective or scientific

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& ISTP when evaluating the scientific research level of higher learning institutions, whereas using ‘comprehensive factor’ analysis method can make it more scientific and efficient. This is an objective, fair & quantitative evaluation method, and is a general-accepted international method. When evaluating the research level of universities, one usually takes the total number of papers collected by SCI, EI and ISTP as the standard. We hold the view that we should appropriately make use of the three famous index systems to reasonably evaluate the research level of universities with objective attitudes. As one of the three famous indexical systems, EI is a large-scale indexical system mainly embodying engineering technique periodicals and conference literature. It has become the world-class authoritative indexical system and general-accepted international statistic source

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