NDLI: Qualifying the performance evaluation of Big Science beyond productivity, impact and costs

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Heidler, Richard Hallonsten, Olof
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	The use of quantitative performance measures to evaluate the productivity, impact and quality of research has spread to almost all parts of public R&D systems, including Big Science where traditional measures of technical reliability of instruments and user oversubscription have been joined by publication counts to assess scientific productivity. But such performance assessment has been shown to lead to absurdities, as the calculated average cost of single journal publications easily may reach hundreds of millions of dollars. In this article, the issue of productivity and impact is therefore further qualified by the use of additional measures such as the immediacy index as well as network analysis to evaluate qualitative aspects of the impact of contemporary Big Science labs. Connecting to previous work within what has been called “facilitymetrics”, the article continues the search for relevant bibliometric measures of the performance of Big Science labs with the use of a case study of a recently opened facility that is advertised as contributing to “breakthrough” research, by using several more measures and thus qualifying the topic of performance evaluation in contemporary Big Science beyond simple counts of publications, citations, and costs.
Starting Page	295
Ending Page	312
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01389130
Journal	Scientometrics
Volume Number	104
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15882861
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-03-26
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Big Science Quality assessment Performance assessment Productivity Network analysis Information Storage and Retrieval Library Science Interdisciplinary Studies
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Library and Information Sciences Computer Science Applications

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
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