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Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138 1200 South Hayes Street, Arlington, VA 22202-5050 4570 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2665 Westbrook Centre, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1YG, United Kingdom RAND URL: http://www.rand.org RAND Europe URL: http://www.rand.org/randeurope To order RAND documents or to obtain additional information, contact Distribution Services: Telephone: (310) 451-7002; Fax: (310) 451-6915; Email: [email protected] Preface Bibliometric analysis is an increasingly important part of a broader ‘toolbox’ of evaluation methods available to R&D policymakers to support decision-making. In the US, UK and Australia, for example, there is evidence of gradual convergence over the past ten years towards a model of university research assessment and ranking incorporating the use of bibliometric measures. In Britain, the Department of Health (England) has shown growing interest in using bibliometric analysis to support prospective R&D decision-making, and has engaged RAND Europe’s expertise in this area through a number of exercises since 2005. These range from the macro-level selection of potentially high impact institutions, to micro-level selection of high impact individuals for the National Institute for Health Research’s faculty of researchers. The aim of this document is to be an accessible, ‘beginner’s guide’ to bibliometric theory and application in the area of health research and development (R&D) decision-making. The report also aims to identify future directions and possible next steps in this area, based on RAND Europe’s work with the Department of Health to date. It is targeted at a range of audiences, and will be of interest to health and biomedical researchers, as well as R&D decision-makers in the UK and elsewhere. The report was produced with funding support from RAND Europe’s Health R&D Policy Research Unit with the Department of Health. RAND Europe is an independent, not-for-profit policy research institute based in Cambridge. For the past three years, RAND has been a designated research unit of the Department of Health, which supported the research for and publication of this document. For more information about RAND Europe or this document, please contact: Dr Jonathan Grant President RAND Europe Westbrook Centre Milton Road Cambridge CB4 1YG Tel: +44 1223 353329 Email: [email protected] iii Contents Preface ........................................................................................................................ iii List of figures ............................................................................................................... ix List of tables ................................................................................................................ xi List of abbreviations ...................................................................................................xiii Summary .................................................................................................................... xv Acknowledgements ................................................................................................... xvii CHAPTER 1 Introduction .................................................................................... 1 1.1 Setting the scene: why evaluate? ......................................................................... 1 1.2 Doing evaluation: the research evaluator’s toolkit .............................................. 3 1.3 Organisation and structure of the report ............................................................ 4 CHAPTER 2 Structuring bibliometric analyses ..................................................... 5 2.1 What is bibliometrics? ....................................................................................... 5 2.1.1 Bibliometrics is part of a family of methods for assessing scientific communication .................................................................................... 5 2.1.2 Publication and citation data have important characteristics ................. 6 2.2 Why do we need bibliometrics? ......................................................................... 7 2.2.1 Well-recognised problems with other evaluation methodologies ........... 7 2.2.2 Bibliometric analysis offers some clear advantages over alternative approaches ............................................................................................ 7 2.3 Some key issues in evaluation: what can bibliometrics measure? ......................... 9 2.3.1 Measuring scientific collaboration ......................................................... 9 2.3.2 Assessing interdisciplinary research ....................................................... 9 2.3.3 The quest for ‘quality’ and ‘research excellence’ .................................. 10 2.4 Integrating bibliometric analysis with other performance analysis tools ............ 10 2.4.1 Australian Research Quality Framework ............................................. 10 2.4.2 Moving towards Excellence in Research for Australia .......................... 11 2.5 Using bibliometrics to map scientific research ................................................. 11 2.6 Bibliometrics for research evaluation: measures and indicators ......................... 12 2.6.1 Publication volume measures .............................................................. 15 2.6.2 Journal-linked performance measures ................................................. 15 2.6.3 Citation analyses as measures of research impact ................................. 16 2.6.4 Composite measures ........................................................................... 19 v Contents RAND Europe 2.6.5 Distribution-based approaches ............................................................ 19 CHAPTER 3 Using bibliometrics for selection procedures ................................. 21 3.1 Background ..................................................................................................... 21 3.2 Selecting centres of excellence (biomedical research centres) ............................. 22 3.2.1 Pre-application.................................................................................... 22 3.2.2 Post-application .................................................................................. 25 3.3 Selecting biomedical research units .................................................................
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