Evaluation of Research Activities of Universities of Ukraine and Belarus

Lazarev, Vladimir, Nazarovets, Serhii and Skalaban, Alexey Evaluation of Research Activities of Universities of Ukraine and Belarus. Romanian Journal of Library and Information Science, 2017, vol. 13, n. 3, pp. 75-84. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Monitoring bibliometric indicators of university rankings is considered as a subject of a university library activity. In order to fulfill comparative assessment of research activities of the universities of Ukraine and Belarus the authors introduced a set of bibliometric indicators. A comparative assessment of the research activities of corresponding universities was fulfilled; the data on the leading universities are presented. The sensitivity of the one of the indicators to rapid changes of the research activity of universities and the fact that the other one is normalized across the fields of science condition advantage of the proposed set over the one that was used in practice of the corresponding national rankings.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: research organization; research activity assessment; bibliometric evaluation; citedness; citations; number of publications; university rankings
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
B. Information use and sociology of information > BH. Information needs and information requirements analysis.
Depositing user: Serhii Nazarovets
Date deposited: 31 Dec 2017 15:08
Last modified: 10 Jan 2018 11:21
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/32126

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