Local Bibliometric Indicators and Research

Mobilityprof. dr. Elizabeth Amann

Ghent University

Obstacles• language barriers

• uncompetitive salaries

• loyalty bonds

• local traditions

• privileging of teaching needs over research

• internal selection committees

• insufficient dissemination of job ads

• differences in academic career structures

• different “cultures of counting”

Local Bibliometric Indicators• Flanders: VABB (Flemish Academic Bibliographic

Database

• Denmark: BRI (Bibliometric Research Indicator)

• Finland: JUFO Publication Forum

• Norway: CRISTIN (Current Research Information System)

• Spain: SPI (Scholarly Publishers Index)

• France: Listes de revues SHS de l’AERES

• Italy: Classificazione delle Riviste - ANVUR ...

Local Bibliometric Indicators

• pro: correction of omissions

• book publications

• non-Anglophone venues

• underrepresented disciplines (Social Sciences and Humanities)

• cons:

• low level of overlap among indicators

• negative impact on international mobility

Local Bibliometric Indicators• Flanders: VABB (Flemish Academic Bibliographic

Database

• Denmark: BRI (Bibliometric Research Indicator)

• Finland: JUFO Publication Forum

• Norway: CRISTIN (Current Research Information System)

• Spain: SPI (Scholarly Publishers Index)

• France: Listes de revues SHS de l’AERES

• Italy: Classificazione delle Riviste - ANVUR ...

Book Publisher Lists/Rankings

• Denmark: Levels 1 & 2 (2 = highest)

• Norway: Levels 1 & 2 (2 = highest)

• Finland: Levels 1, 2 & 3 (3 = highest)

• Flanders: list of automatically recognized presses

• Spain: a ranking:

......

Book Publisher Lists/Rankings

• Denmark: Levels 1 & 2

• Norway: Levels 1 & 2

• Finland: Levels 1, 2 & 3 (15 presses)

• Flanders: list of automatically recognized presses

• Spain: a ranking:top 15

...

Book Publisher Lists/Rankings• Denmark: Levels 1 & 2 (89 presses)

• Norway: Levels 1 & 2 (87 presses)

• Finland: Levels 1, 2 (93 presses) & 3 (15 presses)

• Flanders: list of automatically recognized presses (135 presses)

• Spain: a ranking:top 105

......

total: 246 presses

33%

27%

33%

28%21%

total: 246 presses

13%

20%

6%

52%35%

weighting book publications

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3

Danish 5 8

Finnish 6 1212

Norwegian 5 8

Flemish 444

recommendations• single transnational list of publication venues

• compiled by international committees of researchers and collection development librarians

• focus on ‘good practices’: external peer review, international visibility, no publication fees

• common convention for weighting publications