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Testing Reviewer Suggestions Derived from Bibliometric Specialty Approximations in Real Research Evaluations
Nadine Rons
Many contemporary research funding instruments and research policies aim for excellence at the level of individual scientists, teams or research programmes. Good bibliometric appro…
Bibliometric Approximation of a Scientific Specialty by Combining Key Sources, Title Words, Authors and References
Nadine Rons
Bibliometric methods for the analysis of highly specialized subjects are increasingly investigated and debated. Information and assessments well-focused at the specialty level can…
Investigation of Partition Cells as a Structural Basis Suitable for Assessments of Individual Scientists
Nadine Rons
Individual, excellent scientists have become increasingly important in the research funding landscape. Accurate bibliometric measures of an individual's performance could help iden…
Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations: Evaluation of a Funding Program
Nadine Rons
Innovative ideas are often situated where disciplines meet, and socio-economic problems generally require contributions from several disciplines. Ways to stimulate interdisciplinar…
Impact vitality: an indicator based on citing publications in search of excellent scientists
Nadine Rons, Lucy Amez
This paper contributes to the quest for an operational definition of 'research excellence' and proposes a translation of the excellence concept into a bibliometric indicator. Start…
Research evaluation per discipline: a peer-review method and its outcomes
Nadine Rons, Arlette De Bruyn, Jan Cornelis
This paper describes the method for ex-post peer review evaluation per research discipline used at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and summarizes the outcomes obtained from it…
Reliability and Comparability of Peer Review Results
Nadine Rons, Eric Spruyt
In this paper peer review reliability is investigated based on peer ratings of research teams at two Belgian universities. It is found that outcomes can be substantially influenced…
Partition-based Field Normalization: An approach to highly specialized publication records
Nadine Rons
Field normalized citation rates are well-established indicators for research performance from the broadest aggregation levels such as countries, down to institutes and research tea…
Groups of Highly Cited Publications: Stability in Content with Citation Window Length
Nadine Rons
The growing focus in research policy worldwide on top scientists makes it increasingly important to define adequate supporting measures to help identify excellent scientists. Highl…
Characteristics of International versus Non-International Scientific Publication Media in Team- and Author-Based Data
Nadine Rons
The enlarged coverage of the international publication and citation databases Web of Science and Scopus towards local media in social sciences was a welcome response to an increase…
Research Excellence Milestones of BRIC and N-11 Countries
Nadine Rons
While scientific performance is an important aspect of a stable and healthy economy, measures for it have yet to gain their place in economic country profiles. As useful indicators…
Output and citation impact of interdisciplinary networks: Experiences from a dedicated funding program
Nadine Rons
In a context of ever more specialized scientists, interdisciplinarity receives increasing attention as innovating ideas are often situated where the disciplines meet. In many count…
Quality related publication categories in social sciences and humanities, based on a university's peer review assessments
Nadine Rons, Arlette De Bruyn
Bibliometric analysis has firmly conquered its place as an instrument for evaluation and international comparison of performance levels. Consequently, differences in coverage by st…
Impact Vitality - A Measure for Excellent Scientists
Nadine Rons, Lucy Amez
In many countries and at European level, research policy increasingly focuses on 'excellent' researchers. The concept of excellence however is complex and multidimensional. For ind…
Composing a Publication List for Individual Researcher Assessment by Merging Information from Different Sources
Lucy Amez, Nadine Rons
Citation and publication profiles are gaining importance for the evaluation of top researchers when it comes to the appropriation of funding for excellence programs or career promo…
Quantitative CV-based indicators for research quality, validated by peer review
Nadine Rons
In a university, research assessments are organized at different policy levels (faculties, research council) in different contexts (funding, council membership, personnel evaluatio…