Expertise overlap between an expert panel and research groups in global journal maps

Rahman, A. I. M. Jakaria, Guns, Raf , Rousseau, Ronald and Engels, Tim C. E. Expertise overlap between an expert panel and research groups in global journal maps., 2015 . In 15th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics - ISSI, Istanbul (Turkey), 29 June - 4 July 2015. [Conference paper]

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There are no available methods to measure overlap in expertise between a panel of experts and evaluated research groups in discipline-specific research evaluation. This paper explores a bibliometric approach to determining the overlap of expertise, using the 2009 and 2011 research evaluations of ten Pharmaceutical Sciences and nine Biology research groups of the University of Antwerp. We study this overlap at the journal level. Specifically, journal overlay maps are applied to visualize to what extent the research groups and panel members publish in the same journals. Pharmaceutical Sciences panel members published more diversely than the corresponding research groups, whereas, the Biology research groups published more diversely than the panel. Numbers of publications in the same journals vary over a large scale. A different range of coverage was found for different research groups; there is also a significant difference between maximum and minimum coverage based on discipline. Future research will focus on similarity testing, and a comparison with other disciplines.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: Research assessment; Research evaluation; Expert panel; Research group; Barycenter; Overlay map; Matching research expertise; Journal level Overlay map
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information
B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: A. I. M. Jakaria Rahman
Date deposited: 15 Jul 2015 12:12
Last modified: 15 Jul 2015 12:12
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/25424

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