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Bibliometric measures for evaluating research units in the book-oriented humanities and social sciences are underdeveloped relative to those available for journal-oriented science and technology. We therefore present a new measure designed for book-oriented fields: the "libcitation count." This is a count of the libraries holding a given book, as reported in a national or international union catalog. As librarians decide what to acquire for the audiences they serve, they jointly constitute an instrument for gauging the cultural impact of books. Their decisions are informed by knowledge not only of audiences but also of the book world, e.g., the reputations of authors and the prestige of publishers. From libcitation counts, measures can be derived for comparing research units. Here, we imagine a matchup between the departments of history, philosophy, and political science at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney in Australia. We chose the 12 books from each department that had the highest libcitation counts in the Libraries Australia union catalog during 2000–2006. We present each book's raw libcitation count, its rank within its LC class, and its LC-class normalized libcitation score. The latter is patterned on the item-oriented field normalized citation score used in evaluative bibliometrics. Summary statistics based on these measures allow the departments to be compared for cultural impact. Our work has implications for programs such as Excellence in Research for Australia and the Research Assessment Exercise in the United Kingdom. It also has implications for data mining in OCLC's WorldCat.

The article gives a general description of the framework for research assessment in The Netherlands, comparing it to the Italian system for research evaluation run by ANVUR. In The Netherlands research assessment is based on SEP (Standard Evaluation Protocol), a flexible and adaptable protocol, realized in collaboration by VSNU (Association of Universities in The Netherlands), NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) and KNAW (The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science), and is conducted every six years. Bibliometric indicators are only one kind of indicator that SEP proposes and are complemented by quality indicators like description of the societal relevance, integrity of research, diversity of research. Also, special emphasis in Dutch academic system is given to open access, particularly increased after a steady statement in support of open access to publications expressed by Parliament in 2014.

The DHET Research Output Policy (2015) indicates that there has been a change in the government's approach to research funding. Previously all research published in any accredited journal was rewarded equally. A decision has been taken, however, that a shift will be made towards rewarding better quality and higher impact peer-review research. Additional mechanisms such as biometric/bibliometric data, including citations, assessments by discipline-specific panels of experts and/or post-publication reviews may be used to determine the quality and impact of publications. The policy notes that the DHET may distinguish between "high" and "low" impact journals after proper consultation. This article highlights the need for consultation by the legal fraternity with the DHET about the implementation of these possible mechanisms in the light of the special considerations applicable to the evaluation of law journals: most journals publish mainly local legal content, there is a limited number of active legal academics, the nature of legal research is not empirical, and a premium is placed on the writing of books. The research evaluates the available data between 2009 and 2014 in an attempt to assess if it would be appropriate to introduce a legal journal ranking system in South Africa. The article discusses direct and indirect forms of quality evaluation to inform possible ranking systems. This includes the data from the ASSAf expert panel evaluation of law journals in 2014 and other bibliometric data based on whether the journal is featured in international accredited lists, the size of its print-run, author prominence, rejection-rate, usage studies, and evaluations based on citations. An additional ranking system is considered, based on the five best outputs submitted to the National Research Foundation by applicants applying for rating. The article concludes that a law journal ranking system would be inappropriate for South Africa. None of the systems meet the minimum requirements for a trustworthy ranking of South African law journals, as the data available are insufficient, non-verifiable and not based on objective quality-sensitive criteria. Consultation with the DHET is essential and urgent to avoid the implementation of inappropriate measures of quality and impact assessmen

International audience ; The capacity of Library Science to produce knowledge in such an information system as the decision-taking process in scientific policy, is highlighted by the assessment of University teachers' research activity, as recently performed in Spain. The social environment of written communication has been stated, noticing the controversy on scholarly productivity concentration and some key concerns in the analysis of citations as quality indicators. Different meanings of the term "quality" are studied and analysis of the relationships within bibliometric indicators and between bibliometric and non-bibliometric data has been undertaken. From the investigation of an important information source in research areas, it is advanced the adequacy of dialogue in complex situations where problem solving oriented librarianship work shows defined features of a post-hoc rationalization of events. ; La valoración de la actividad investigadora de los profesores universitarios, pone de relieve la capacidad productora deconocimiento, en un sistema de información como el de la toma de decisiones en política científica, que tiene la ciencia dela biblioteca. Se plantea el entorno social que preside la comunicación escrita, indicando la controvertida faceta de laconcentración de la productividad académica y puntos clave de la discusión de las citas como indicadores de calidad.Se estudian distintos aspectos del término calidad, y relaciones entre indicadores bibliométricos y entre éstos y los datos no-bibliométricos. A resultas del estudio de una fuente principal de información en el terreno de la investigación,se avanza la adecuación del diálogo en situaciones complejas donde el trabajo biblioteconómico encaminado a laresolución de problemas presenta fuertes rasgos de racionalización post hoc de acontecimientos. ; L'évaluation de l'activité de recherche des enseignants universitaires, révèle la capacité de production du savoir de la science de l'information et des bibliothèques, dans un système d'établissement de ...

European Political Science (EPS) has been a leading political science journal since its launch in 2001. This article examines the contribution of European Political Science over its 20-year history. The bibliometric analysis draws on Web of Science data and VOSviewer software. These tools help detect collaboration networks, bibliographic coupling and co-citations to identify the most relevant topics and knowledge appearing in European Political Science. The evaluation of EPS reveals four areas of interest: migration, education, comparative politics and democracy. Recent interests include the current debate on populisms, social media and political parties, with antecedents and implications that transcend national boundaries.

National audience ; Ce travail expose comment les techniques bibliométriques peuvent répondre en partie à des démarches d'évaluation des échanges entre les acteurs du système Science-Technologie-Société. Cette étude bibliométrique s'est plus particulièrement focalisée sur l'évaluation des collaborations scientifiques par une analyse des co-publications entre les acteurs espagnols du secteur public (représentants la Science) et ceux du secteur privé (représentants la Technologie) pour la période 1995-1999. Le corpus étudié a été constitué à partir des bases de données ICYC et ISOC produites par le CINDOC. Ce corpus a été soumis plusieurs phases de codifications pour le préparer à l'analyse bibliométrique. Les références ont été codifiées en 8 secteurs scientifiques et techniques et les affiliations des auteurs ont été normalisées et agrégées selon 3 niveaux (organismes, catégories institutionnelles, catégories publiques ou privées). Quelques résultats bibliométriques représentatifs de chacun de ces 3 niveaux d'agrégation sont exposés. La méthode bibliométrique de l'analyse réseau a été employée pour la caractérisation de la régularité, de l'intensité et la structuration des échanges entre organismes. En conclusion, les résultats bibliométriques ont permis de quantifier les échanges entre les acteurs du secteur public et du secteur privé espagnols au niveau national ainsi que par secteur scientifique et technique ou par Région Autonome. Les techniques bibliométriques s'avèrent des outils très pertinents pour l'évaluation des échanges dans le système Science-Technologie-Société. This work shows how bibliometric techniques can partly answer the exchange evaluation among the actors of the Science-Technology-Society system. This bibliometric study was particularly focused on the evaluation of scientific collaborations by a co-authorship analysis of the Spanish actors from the public sector (representing Science) and from private sector (representing Technology) over the period 1995-1999. The studied dataset of ...

AbstractIn this paper, we answer the multiple calls for systematic analysis of paradigms and subdisciplines in political science—the search for coherence within a fragmented field. We collected a large dataset of over seven hundred thousand writings in political science from Web of Science since 1946. We found at least two waves of political science development, from behaviorism to new institutionalism. Political science appeared to be more fragmented than literature suggests—instead of ten subdisciplines, we found 66 islands. However, despite fragmentation, there is also a tendency for integration in contemporary political science, as revealed by co-existence of several paradigms and coherent and interconnected topics of the "canon of political science," as revealed by the core-periphery structure of topic networks. This was the first large-scale investigation of the entire political science field, possibly due to newly developed methods of bibliometric network analysis: temporal bibliometric analysis and island methods of clustering. Methodological contribution of this work to network science is evaluation of islands method of network clustering against a hierarchical cluster analysis for its ability to remove misleading information, allowing for a more meaningful clustering of large weighted networks.

Citation metrics have value because they aim to make scientific assessment a level playing field, but urgent transparency-based adjustments are necessary to ensure that measurements yield the most accurate picture of impact and excellence. One problematic area is the handling of self-citations, which are either excluded or inappropriately accounted for when using bibliometric indicators for research evaluation. Here, in favor of openly tracking self-citations we report on self-referencing behavior among various academic disciplines as captured by the curated Clarivate Analytics Web of Science database. Specifically, we examined the behavior of 385,616 authors grouped into 15 subject areas like Biology, Chemistry, Science and Technology, Engineering, and Physics. These authors have published 3,240,973 papers that have accumulated 90,806,462 citations, roughly five percent of which are self-citations. Up until now, very little is known about the buildup of self-citations at the author-level and in field-specific contexts. Our view is that hiding self-citation data is indefensible and needlessly confuses any attempts to understand the bibliometric impact of one's work. Instead we urge academics to embrace visibility of citation data in a community of peers, which relies on nuance and openness rather than curated scorekeeping.

The purpose of this paper is to describe the evaluation of the effectiveness of the bibliometric technique Bradfordizing in an information retrieval (IR) scenario. Bradfordizing is used to re-rank topical document sets from conventional abstracting & indexing (A&I) databases into core and more peripheral document zones. Bradfordized lists of journal articles and monographs will be tested in a controlled scenario consisting of different A&I databases from social and political sciences, economics, psychology and medical science, 164 standardized IR topics and intellectual assessments of the listed documents. Does Bradfordizing improve the ratio of relevant documents in the first third (core) compared to the second and last third (zone 2 and zone 3,
respectively)? The IR tests show that relevance distributions after re-ranking improve at a significant level if documents in the core are compared with documents in the succeeding zones. After Bradfordizing of document pools, the core has a significant better average precision than zone 2, zone 3 and baseline. This paper should be
seen as an argument in favour of alternative non-textual (bibliometric) re-ranking methods which can be simply applied in text-based retrieval systems and in particular in A&I databases. (author's abstract)

Our thesis aims to establish a diagnosis of Moroccan scientific potential in the medical area and to conceptualize new devices for measurement, mapping and open access to local science.To build national research systems and ensure Morocco's socio-economic development, university decision-makers need analytic and evaluation indicators of their scientific heritage. The main sources used to perform this analysis are the international databases "Scopus" and "Web of Science", despite their biased indexing and coverage of southern countries.This impedes the accessibility and visibility of Moroccan science. A few questions then arise: is this lack of visibility due to the low presence of national journals in international databases? Is it due to the quality of Moroccan publications? Is Moroccan science locally focused, addressing themes which are not on the global agenda? Do Moroccan universities lack awareness of the contribution of open access to increasing research visibility and impact? Our case study of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Casablanca (FMPC) is based on three specific objectives: 1/ Identifying scientific production; 2/ characterizing scientific production and exploring the existence of a relationship between the indexing of publications in international databases and their visibility and 3/ evaluating the behaviors and uses of open access by researchers.The main results of our thesis are the analysis and characterization of the scientific output of the FMPC, which is highly visible on an international scale: the juxtaposition of national and international publications confirms that 70% of the FMPC's scientific publications are integrated into international databases and that 74.21% of all articles are published in English. Furthermore, 30% of national publications cannot be excluded from bibliometric evaluation, at the risk of biasing the country's science policies.The establishment of the University's institutional repository and of the medical journal portal makes it possible to widely disseminate FMPC researcher production and to increase its visibility and impact. Nevertheless, the results of the survey of researchers showed that the main impediment to the adoption of open access is the lack of awareness of the benefits of STIs with regards to increasing their impact and visibility. The results of the FMPC's science mapping and the study of researcher behavior with regard to open access have allowed us to propose bases for the definition of indicators adapted to the Moroccan context. ; Notre travail de thèse vise à établir un diagnostic des potentialités scientifiques marocaines et à concevoir de nouveaux dispositifs pour la mesure, la cartographie et l'open access à la science locale.Pour bâtir des systèmes nationaux de recherche et garantir le développement socioéconomique du Maroc, les décideurs des universités ont besoin d'indicateurs d'analyse et d'évaluation de leur patrimoine scientifique. Les principales sources utilisées pour effectuer cette analyse sont les bases de données internationales « Scopus » et « Web of Science », en dépit de leurs biais d'indexation et de couverture de la science des pays du Sud. Cela induit un questionnement quant au manque hypothétique de la visibilité de la science marocaine. Ce manque de visibilité serait-il dû à la faible présence des revues nationales dans les bases de données internationales ? Ou relèverait-il de la faible qualité des publications marocaines ? La science marocaine est-elle une science à visée locale, abordant des thèmes qui ne figurent pas dans l'agenda de la science universelle ? Les apports de l'open access quant à l'augmentation de la visibilité et de l'impact de la recherche sont-ils méconnus des universitaires marocains ? La réponse à ces questions est accomplie à travers l'étude de cas de la Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie de Casablanca (FMPC). Elle s'articule autour de trois objectifs spécifiques : 1/ Recenser la production scientifique ; 2/ cartographier la production scientifique et explorer l'existence d'une relation entre l'indexation des publications dans les bases de données internationales et leur visibilité 3/ évaluer les comportements et les usages de l'open access par les chercheurs.Les principaux résultats de l'analyse et de la cartographie de la production scientifique de la FMPC, attestent que celle-ci jouit d'une grande visibilité à l'échelle internationale. La juxtaposition des publications nationales et internationales permet de confirmer que 70% des publications scientifiques de la FMPC sont intégrées dans les bases de données internationales et que 74.21 % de l'ensemble des articles sont publiés en anglais. Par ailleurs, on ne pourrait exclure 30% des publications nationales de l'évaluation bibliométrique au risque de biaiser les politiques scientifiques du pays.D'autres résultats de la thèse sont constitués par la mise en place du dépôt institutionnel de l'Université et du portail de revues médicales, créés afin d'assurer une large diffusion de la production des chercheurs de la FMPC et d'augmenter sa visibilité et son impact. Néanmoins, les résultats de l'enquête menée auprès des chercheurs ont montré que la principale barrière à l'adoption de l'open access est la méconnaissance des avantages des dispositifs de libre accès à l'IST quant à l'augmentation de leur impact et de leur visibilité. Les résultats de la cartographie de la FMPC et de l'étude des comportements des chercheurs à l'égard de l'open access, nous ont permis de proposer des fondements pour l'édification d'indicateurs adaptés au contexte marocain.

Our thesis aims to establish a diagnosis of Moroccan scientific potential in the medical area and to conceptualize new devices for measurement, mapping and open access to local science.To build national research systems and ensure Morocco's socio-economic development, university decision-makers need analytic and evaluation indicators of their scientific heritage. The main sources used to perform this analysis are the international databases "Scopus" and "Web of Science", despite their biased indexing and coverage of southern countries.This impedes the accessibility and visibility of Moroccan science. A few questions then arise: is this lack of visibility due to the low presence of national journals in international databases? Is it due to the quality of Moroccan publications? Is Moroccan science locally focused, addressing themes which are not on the global agenda? Do Moroccan universities lack awareness of the contribution of open access to increasing research visibility and impact? Our case study of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Casablanca (FMPC) is based on three specific objectives: 1/ Identifying scientific production; 2/ characterizing scientific production and exploring the existence of a relationship between the indexing of publications in international databases and their visibility and 3/ evaluating the behaviors and uses of open access by researchers.The main results of our thesis are the analysis and characterization of the scientific output of the FMPC, which is highly visible on an international scale: the juxtaposition of national and international publications confirms that 70% of the FMPC's scientific publications are integrated into international databases and that 74.21% of all articles are published in English. Furthermore, 30% of national publications cannot be excluded from bibliometric evaluation, at the risk of biasing the country's science policies.The establishment of the University's institutional repository and of the medical journal portal makes it possible to widely disseminate FMPC researcher production and to increase its visibility and impact. Nevertheless, the results of the survey of researchers showed that the main impediment to the adoption of open access is the lack of awareness of the benefits of STIs with regards to increasing their impact and visibility. The results of the FMPC's science mapping and the study of researcher behavior with regard to open access have allowed us to propose bases for the definition of indicators adapted to the Moroccan context. ; Notre travail de thèse vise à établir un diagnostic des potentialités scientifiques marocaines et à concevoir de nouveaux dispositifs pour la mesure, la cartographie et l'open access à la science locale.Pour bâtir des systèmes nationaux de recherche et garantir le développement socioéconomique du Maroc, les décideurs des universités ont besoin d'indicateurs d'analyse et d'évaluation de leur patrimoine scientifique. Les principales sources utilisées pour effectuer cette analyse sont les bases de données internationales « Scopus » et « Web of Science », en dépit de leurs biais d'indexation et de couverture de la science des pays du Sud. Cela induit un questionnement quant au manque hypothétique de la visibilité de la science marocaine. Ce manque de visibilité serait-il dû à la faible présence des revues nationales dans les bases de données internationales ? Ou relèverait-il de la faible qualité des publications marocaines ? La science marocaine est-elle une science à visée locale, abordant des thèmes qui ne figurent pas dans l'agenda de la science universelle ? Les apports de l'open access quant à l'augmentation de la visibilité et de l'impact de la recherche sont-ils méconnus des universitaires marocains ? La réponse à ces questions est accomplie à travers l'étude de cas de la Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie de Casablanca (FMPC). Elle s'articule autour de trois objectifs spécifiques : 1/ Recenser la production scientifique ; 2/ cartographier la production scientifique et explorer l'existence d'une relation entre l'indexation des publications dans les bases de données internationales et leur visibilité 3/ évaluer les comportements et les usages de l'open access par les chercheurs.Les principaux résultats de l'analyse et de la cartographie de la production scientifique de la FMPC, attestent que celle-ci jouit d'une grande visibilité à l'échelle internationale. La juxtaposition des publications nationales et internationales permet de confirmer que 70% des publications scientifiques de la FMPC sont intégrées dans les bases de données internationales et que 74.21 % de l'ensemble des articles sont publiés en anglais. Par ailleurs, on ne pourrait exclure 30% des publications nationales de l'évaluation bibliométrique au risque de biaiser les politiques scientifiques du pays.D'autres résultats de la thèse sont constitués par la mise en place du dépôt institutionnel de l'Université et du portail de revues médicales, créés afin d'assurer une large diffusion de la production des chercheurs de la FMPC et d'augmenter sa visibilité et son impact. Néanmoins, les résultats de l'enquête menée auprès des chercheurs ont montré que la principale barrière à l'adoption de l'open access est la méconnaissance des avantages des dispositifs de libre accès à l'IST quant à l'augmentation de leur impact et de leur visibilité. Les résultats de la cartographie de la FMPC et de l'étude des comportements des chercheurs à l'égard de l'open access, nous ont permis de proposer des fondements pour l'édification d'indicateurs adaptés au contexte marocain.

Our thesis aims to establish a diagnosis of Moroccan scientific potential in the medical area and to conceptualize new devices for measurement, mapping and open access to local science.To build national research systems and ensure Morocco's socio-economic development, university decision-makers need analytic and evaluation indicators of their scientific heritage. The main sources used to perform this analysis are the international databases "Scopus" and "Web of Science", despite their biased indexing and coverage of southern countries.This impedes the accessibility and visibility of Moroccan science. A few questions then arise: is this lack of visibility due to the low presence of national journals in international databases? Is it due to the quality of Moroccan publications? Is Moroccan science locally focused, addressing themes which are not on the global agenda? Do Moroccan universities lack awareness of the contribution of open access to increasing research visibility and impact? Our case study of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Casablanca (FMPC) is based on three specific objectives: 1/ Identifying scientific production; 2/ characterizing scientific production and exploring the existence of a relationship between the indexing of publications in international databases and their visibility and 3/ evaluating the behaviors and uses of open access by researchers.The main results of our thesis are the analysis and characterization of the scientific output of the FMPC, which is highly visible on an international scale: the juxtaposition of national and international publications confirms that 70% of the FMPC's scientific publications are integrated into international databases and that 74.21% of all articles are published in English. Furthermore, 30% of national publications cannot be excluded from bibliometric evaluation, at the risk of biasing the country's science policies.The establishment of the University's institutional repository and of the medical journal portal makes it possible to widely disseminate FMPC researcher production and to increase its visibility and impact. Nevertheless, the results of the survey of researchers showed that the main impediment to the adoption of open access is the lack of awareness of the benefits of STIs with regards to increasing their impact and visibility. The results of the FMPC's science mapping and the study of researcher behavior with regard to open access have allowed us to propose bases for the definition of indicators adapted to the Moroccan context. ; Notre travail de thèse vise à établir un diagnostic des potentialités scientifiques marocaines et à concevoir de nouveaux dispositifs pour la mesure, la cartographie et l'open access à la science locale.Pour bâtir des systèmes nationaux de recherche et garantir le développement socioéconomique du Maroc, les décideurs des universités ont besoin d'indicateurs d'analyse et d'évaluation de leur patrimoine scientifique. Les principales sources utilisées pour effectuer cette analyse sont les bases de données internationales « Scopus » et « Web of Science », en dépit de leurs biais d'indexation et de couverture de la science des pays du Sud. Cela induit un questionnement quant au manque hypothétique de la visibilité de la science marocaine. Ce manque de visibilité serait-il dû à la faible présence des revues nationales dans les bases de données internationales ? Ou relèverait-il de la faible qualité des publications marocaines ? La science marocaine est-elle une science à visée locale, abordant des thèmes qui ne figurent pas dans l'agenda de la science universelle ? Les apports de l'open access quant à l'augmentation de la visibilité et de l'impact de la recherche sont-ils méconnus des universitaires marocains ? La réponse à ces questions est accomplie à travers l'étude de cas de la Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie de Casablanca (FMPC). Elle s'articule autour de trois objectifs spécifiques : 1/ Recenser la production scientifique ; 2/ cartographier la production scientifique et explorer l'existence d'une relation entre l'indexation des publications dans les bases de données internationales et leur visibilité 3/ évaluer les comportements et les usages de l'open access par les chercheurs.Les principaux résultats de l'analyse et de la cartographie de la production scientifique de la FMPC, attestent que celle-ci jouit d'une grande visibilité à l'échelle internationale. La juxtaposition des publications nationales et internationales permet de confirmer que 70% des publications scientifiques de la FMPC sont intégrées dans les bases de données internationales et que 74.21 % de l'ensemble des articles sont publiés en anglais. Par ailleurs, on ne pourrait exclure 30% des publications nationales de l'évaluation bibliométrique au risque de biaiser les politiques scientifiques du pays.D'autres résultats de la thèse sont constitués par la mise en place du dépôt institutionnel de l'Université et du portail de revues médicales, créés afin d'assurer une large diffusion de la production des chercheurs de la FMPC et d'augmenter sa visibilité et son impact. Néanmoins, les résultats de l'enquête menée auprès des chercheurs ont montré que la principale barrière à l'adoption de l'open access est la méconnaissance des avantages des dispositifs de libre accès à l'IST quant à l'augmentation de leur impact et de leur visibilité. Les résultats de la cartographie de la FMPC et de l'étude des comportements des chercheurs à l'égard de l'open access, nous ont permis de proposer des fondements pour l'édification d'indicateurs adaptés au contexte marocain.

arXiv:1706.02119 ; The phenomenon of rankings is intimately related with government interest in fiscalizing the research outputs of universities. New forms of managerialism have been introduced into the higher education system, leading to an increasing interest from funding bodies in developing external evaluation tools to allocate funds. Rankings rely heavily on bibliometric indicators. But, bibliometricians have been very critical with their use. Among other, they have pointed out the over-simplistic view rankings represent when analyzing the research output of universities, as they consider them as homogeneous ignoring disciplinary differences. Although many university rankings now include league tables by fields, reducing the complex framework of universities' research activity to a single dimension leads to poor judgment and decision making. This is partly because of the influence disciplinary specialization has on research evaluation. This chapter analyzes from a methodological perspective how rankings suppress disciplinary differences which are key factors to interpret correctly these rankings. ; Peer Reviewed

In many countries - during the past three decades - there has been increasing alignment of public administration with neoliberal modes of governance driven by processes of globalization and privatization. Key is New Public Management (NPM) as an instrument for applying private sector or market-based techniques to public services. The paper concerns the implications and impact of these developments as they relate to the university sector where we are seeing an influx of bibliometrics to assess performativity with measures that are frequently far from adequate. These changes are related to the broader context of a globalized privatization doctrine of science policy that has gained currency in many countries. The analysis presented here probes and discusses a nexus between NPM, bibliometric performance audits, and a new paradigm in science policy. As such the paper seeks to fill an important gap in science policy studies and the literature on New Public Management more generally. It summarizes various characteristics associated with NPM, and explicates the connection with methods of research evaluation now being introduced in academic institutions. It also takes up varying responses evoked within academe by the use of bibliometrics and current methods of ranking of tertiary educational institutions. Apart from gaining a better understanding of significant changes in the higher educational and research landscapes or disciplines and the interplay of these with broader economic and political trends in society at large, the aim of the paper is also to stimulate discussion and debate on current priorities, perceptions and policies governing knowledge production. ; https://doi.org/10.4102/td.v6i2.263

The article presents the results of the rating of Russian economic journals, the methodology of which is based on a combination of bibliometric data and expert interviews. Processing of the statistical information system of Russian science citation index (RINC) allows us to form a "primary" list of the best journals in the country. Expert evaluation of the list makes it possible to reorganize it with regard to the scientific level of periodicals and get the "secondary" list. The merger of two ranking systems forms the basis of obtaining the final ranking of economic journals. It is shown that the leading part of the constructed rating forms a kind of the Diamond List of journals, which on the whole agrees with similar lists obtained in earlier studies by other authors.