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Common bibliometric approaches fail to assess correctly the number of important scientific advances for most countries and institutions
Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro, Ricardo Brito
Although not explicitly declared, most research rankings of countries and institutions are supposed to reveal their contribution to the advancement of knowledge. However, such adva…
Validated research assessment based on highly cited researchers
Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro, Ricardo Brito
Bibliometrics provides accurate, cheap and simple descriptions of research systems and should lay the foundations for research policy. However, disconnections between bibliometric…
The inconsistency of h-index: a mathematical analysis
Ricardo Brito, Alonso Rodríguez Navarro
Citation distributions are lognormal. We use 30 lognormally distributed synthetic series of numbers that simulate real series of citations to investigate the consistency of the h i…
Might Europe one day again be a global scientific powerhouse? Analysis of ERC publications suggests it will not be possible without changes in research policy
Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro, Ricardo Brito
Numerous EU documents praise the excellence of EU research without empirical evidence and against academic studies. We investigated research performance in two fields of high socio…
Like-for-like bibliometric substitutes for peer review: advantages and limits of indicators calculated from the ep index
Alonso Rodriguez Navarro, Ricardo Brito
The use of bibliometric indicators would simplify research assessments. The 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a peer review assessment of UK universities, whose results c…
Evaluating research and researchers by the journal impact factor: is it better than coin flipping?
Ricardo Brito, Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro
The journal impact factor (JIF) is the average of the number of citations of the papers published in a journal, calculated according to a specific formula; it is extensively used f…