• Bibliometrics in academic recruitment: A screening tool rather than a game changer 

      Reymert, Ingvild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This paper investigates the use of metrics to recruit professors for academic positions. We analyzed confidential reports with candidate evaluations in economics, sociology, physics, and informatics at the University of ...
    • Citations, citation indicators, and research quality: An overview of basic concepts and theories 

      Aksnes, Dag W.; Langfeldt, Liv; Wouters, Paul (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-07)
      Citations are increasingly used as performance indicators in research policy and within the research system. Usually, citations are assumed to reflect the impact of the research or its quality. What is the justification ...
    • A comprehensive analysis of the journal evaluation system in China 

      Huang, Ying; Li, Ruinan; Zhang, Lin; Sivertsen, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Journal evaluation systems reflect how new insights are critically reviewed and published, and the prestige and impact of a discipline’s journals is a key metric in many research assessments, performance evaluation, and ...
    • Data integration in Scandinavia 

      Sivertsen, Gunnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Recent developments in Scandinavia may be of interest in relation to developing an integrated European research information structure that could provide the basis for an improved knowledge base for research policy. This ...
    • Gender gaps in international research collaboration: a bibliometric approach 

      Aksnes, Dag W.; Piro, Fredrik; Rørstad, Kristoffer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-13)
      This paper addresses gender differences in international research collaboration measured through international co-authorship. The study is based on a dataset consisting of 5600 Norwegian researchers and their publication ...
    • Measuring scientific contributions with modified fractional counting 

      Sivertsen, Gunnar; Rousseau, Ronald; Zhang, Lin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-02)
      We develop and propose a new counting method at the aggregate level for contributions to scientific publications called modified fractional counting (MFC). We show that, compared to traditional complete-normalized fractional ...
    • Open access at the national level: A comprehensive analysis of publications by Finnish researchers 

      Pölönen, Janne; Laakso, Mikael; Guns, Raf; Kulczycki, Emanuel; Sivertsen, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Open access (OA) has mostly been studied by relying on publication data from selective international databases, notably Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. The aim of our study is to show that it is possible to achieve a ...
    • Problems and considerations in the design of bibliometric indicators for national performance-based research funding systems 

      Sivertsen, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This article presents an overview of ten specific problems and considerations that are typically involved in designs of bibliometric indicators for national performance-based research funding systems (PRFS). While any such ...
    • The Norwegian Model in Norway 

      Sivertsen, Gunnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-07)
      The “Norwegian Model” attempts to comprehensively cover all the peer-reviewed scholarly literatures in all areas of research in one single weighted indicator. Thereby, scientific production is made comparable across ...