Paper Info
Title
Productivity of Research Groups --- Relation Between Citation Analysis and Reputation Within Research Communities
Abstract
In this paper I discuss the relation between widely used "Scientometric" measures and "reputation" of research groups within the scientific community. To this goal, I present the result of the detailed comparison of two research groups of theoretical astrophysics in post-world-war-2nd Japan. Though one of the two groups gained much higher reputation within the research community, we could not find much difference in the macroscopic indices such as the number of publications or the average citation index. The two groups showed similar scores for these macroscopic indices. This result suggests that widely used quantitative measures of the productivity do not give meaningful measure for the actual contribution of a research group to science.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1007/BF02458398
SCIENTOMETRICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
citation analysis,indexation
Social science,Data mining,Sociology,Citation index,Citation analysis,Scientometrics,Reputation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
43
1
0138-9130
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
3.37
0
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Junichiro Makino114734.17