How can the library assist with research evaluation?
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What is scientific research evaluation? Scientific research evaluation involves assessing the quality, impact, and relevance of scholarly work. It helps researchers, institutions, and funding agencies make informed decisions.
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How can our library assist with research evaluation?
- Citation Reports: We not only guide researchers on using tools but also provide professional librarian services. Our citation reports include citation counts, h-index, and other bibliometric indicators.
- Social Media Mentions Data: We work with Altmetrics to track social media mentions of scholarly articles, enhancing researchers’ understanding of online visibility.
- Publication Lists: we help the researchers create lists of publications for tenure, promotion, or scientific prize. In addition, we can provide LoPs for a specific department or faculty.
- Collaborations: we can help track scientific collaborations with other institutions, countries, or regions.
- Journal Impact Factors: We can provide journal impact factors data, which reflect the influence of scholarly journals within specific fields.
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Which tools do we use?
- Scopus: Provides comprehensive citation data, author profiles, and journal metrics. The database has its own unique indicators, such as
Citation benchmarking - This metrics shows how citations received by this document compare with the average for documents in the same publication year, normalized by subject area. The 99th percentile is high, and indicates a document in the top 1% globally
Field-Weighted citation impact - the ratio of the total citations actually received by the denominator output, and the total citations that would be expected based on the average of the subject field
Views count - the sum of abstract views and clicks on the full-text link at the publisher website
(For more information on Scopus metric, click here)
Unfortunately, the automatic export option in Scopus does not include all these indicators, and they can be added to the LoPs only manually
- Web of Science: Offers citation reports. h-index, “Highly Sited papers” (Highly Cited Papers are papers published in the last 10 years that are receiving the most citations (top 1%) when compared to peer papers (same field, same publication year)), "Hot papers" (Hot Papers are papers published in the last two years that are receiving the most citations (top 0.1%) in the most recent two-month period when compared to peer papers (same field, same publication date)). Also shows the attention that the publications get during the last 180 days
- InCites: Generates benchmarking reports, visualizations, and research analytics. Allows to compare the Weizmann research impact with the average Global Baseline data. The database has some special indicators that allow to demonstrate the research publications' impact, such as
Citation Impact, Impact Relative to World, Average Percentile
- Altmetrics: Tracks online attention, including social media, news, and policy documents.
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