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The differing meanings of indicators under different policy contexts. The case of internationalisation
Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Ismael Rafols
In this chapter we build upon Moed's conceptual contributions on the importance of the policy context when using and interpreting scientometric indicators. We focus on the use of i…
Mapping knowledge with ontologies: the case of obesity
Montserrat Estañol, Francesco Masucci, Alessandro Mosca +1
Scientometric techniques have been remarkably successful at mapping science but they face important difficulties when mapping research for societal problems possibly because they t…
Improving fitness: Mapping research priorities against societal needs on obesity
Lorenzo Cassi, Agénor Lahatte, Ismael Rafols +2
Science policy is increasingly shifting towards an emphasis in societal problems or grand challenges. As a result, new evaluative tools are needed to help assess not only the knowl…
Using almetrics for contextualised mapping of societal impact: From hits to networks
Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Thed N. van Leeuwen, Ismael Rafols
In this article, we develop a method that uses altmetric data to analyse researchers' interactions, as a way of mapping the contexts of potential societal impact. In the face of an…
On the relationship between interdisciplinarity and impact: different modalities of interdisciplinarity lead to different types of impact
Jordi Molas-Gallart, Puay Tang, Ismael Rafols
There is increasing interest among funding agencies to understand how they can best contribute to enhancing the socio-economic impact of research. Interdisciplinarity is often pres…
Knowledge Integration and Diffusion: Measures and Mapping of Diversity and Coherence
Ismael Rafols
I present a framework based on the concepts of diversity and coherence for the analysis of knowledge integration and diffusion. Visualisations that help understand insights gained…