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Tag: Bibliometrics

Who’s Not in the U-15 (But Could Be)

One of the interesting things about our new research rankings – which unlike previous attempts at such things are fully field-normalized – is that it shines a very different light on who the “leaders” are in terms of research. Back in the day, the ten “leading” research institutions in the country (Laval, McGil, Montreal, Queen’s, Toronto, McMaster, Waterloo, Western, Alberta and UBC) created the “G-10.” It was a talking-shop, mostly: a forum where big universities could exchange data quietly amongst themselves. Around

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August 31, 2012 3 Comments

Research Rankings: Burning Questions

We understand that some results from our research rankings are causing some head-scratching. We thought we’d give you some insight into some of the key puzzles. Q: Why isn’t U of T first? U of T is always first. The fact that we didn’t include medical research is a big reason; had we done so, the results might have been quite different. But part of it also is that Toronto’s best subjects tend to be ones with high research costs and high

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August 30, 2012 4 Comments

Research Rankings

Today, we at HESA are releasing our brand new Canadian Research Rankings. We’re pretty proud of what we’ve accomplished here, so let me tell you a bit about them. Unlike previous Canadian research rankings conducted by Research InfoSource, these aren’t simply about raw money and publication totals. As we’ve already seen, those measures tend to privilege strength in some disciplines (the high-citation, high-cost ones) more than others. Institutions which are good in low-citation, low-cost disciplines simply never get recognized in these schemes.

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August 29, 2012 1 Comment

Research Grants by Discipline

So, tomorrow, HESA will be releasing its inaugural set of Canadian research rankings. We think they’re pretty cool; not only are they the first attempt in Canada to employ field-normalization techniques on bibliometric data, as far as we’re aware, they’re the first rankings anywhere in the world to employ field-normalization on research income. Why does this matter? Well, not all research was created alike. Each discipline has a different publication culture, for starters. The average H-index score for an academic

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August 28, 2012 No Comments

Bibliometrics Finale: Age and Size

Today, we use our H-index Benchmarking of Academic Research (HiBAR) to look at the relationship between institutional characteristics and H-index scores. We’ve talked a lot this week about the positive correlation between a researcher’s age and his or her H-index score. But there’s another correlation to watch for: normalized institutional average H-index scores and institutional age. Check it out: Normalized Institutional Average H-Index Score as a Function of Institutional Age The result isn’t wholly clear cut: there are a lot

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June 15, 2012 No Comments

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