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Pei-Ying Chen

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Assistant Professor, Digital Scholarship & Sciences Librarian at University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: Uses and Abuses Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluat

Gingras, Y. (2016). Bibliometrics and research evaluation: Uses and abuses. MIT Press. doi.org/10.7551/mitp...

16.12.2025 06:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My quote of the day from reading Gingras (2016, p. 9):

> Despite warnings by many scientometricians, the practice of using bibliometric indicators to evaluate individual scientists has developed among managers and researchers improvising as experts in evaluation.

16.12.2025 06:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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So frustrated by BOR's decision to eliminate four departments at UNL today, I needed to vent visually. As a metrics researcher, I decided to chart UNL's ranking over time—and wow, the school actually had good old days, but the decline over the past decade is utterly astonishing.

06.12.2025 05:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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