利用基于期刊引用的指标来增强大学排名方法的方法
Ali Ghaddar1, Sergio Thoumi2, Samer S Saab1
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon.
Frontiers in research metrics and analytics
|January 2, 2025
概括
这项研究为大学排名引入了新的期刊引用指标,显示与传统文章指标相比,与既定系统的相关性更高. 这为机构研究绩效提供了更公平,更可靠的评估.
科学领域:
- 图书统计学 图书统计学
- 高等教育研究 高等教育研究
- 研究评估研究评估
背景情况:
- 传统的大学排名在很大程度上依赖于文章引用指标.
- 现有的指标可能无法完全捕捉到各种研究影响,或者可能会受到引用偏差的影响.
- 需要更强大,更公平的方法来评估机构研究绩效.
研究的目的:
- 提出和验证大学研究绩效评估的新框架.
- 利用基于期刊引用的指标和学术成果作为文章引用指标的替代方案.
- 将拟议的指标与全球知名大学排名中使用的指标进行比较.
主要方法:
- 开发一个新的框架,使用基于期刊引用的指标和学术成果.
- 相关性分析比较建议的指标与文章引用指标.
- 根据已建立的大学排名系统 (QS, THE, ARWU) 进行验证.
主要成果:
- 与传统的文章引用指标相比,提出的指标与已建立的排名 (QS, THE, ARWU) 相关性明显更高.
- 新的指标显示出随着时间的推移的稳定性,表明一致的绩效评估.
- 该框架减轻了引用偏见,提供了对研究绩效的更公平的评估.
结论:
- 拟议的框架为大学提供了一个更准确,更公平的比较工具.
- 它可以为学术机构的战略决策和资源分配提供信息.
- 这项研究有助于开发更标准化,更强大的大学评估系统.
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