Presentation: Measuring the impact of publications in research evaluation.

The lecture gives an overview of the possibilities and limitations of measuring the impact of publications (with the help of bibliometrics). The differences between professional and amateur bibliometrics will be shown. Some application examples of a professional bibliometrics will be presented (especially visualization possibilities). Finally, the topic of altmetry (which is propagated as an alternative to bibliometrics) will be discussed.
 

Speaker: Dr. Lutz Bornmann (General Administration of the Max Planck Society, Munich)
 

Further information at: https://www.uni-kassel.de/einrichtungen/incher/veranstaltungen/vortraege-im-wintersemester-201920.html#c18087