Diversity of Scientific Outputs for Scientific Fields: Appropriate Indicators for Measuring the Scientific Performance
CocciaLab Working Paper 2017 – No. 18
38 Pages Posted: 13 May 2017
Date Written: May 11, 2017
Abstract
Science has a diversity of research fields that differ for the nature of topics investigated and methods of inquiry. Science indicators are quite general and tend to be applied to all research fields without to consider the inner differences. The purpose of this paper is to detect the appropriate science indicators to assess the scientific performance of different scientific fields. The Muldimensional Scaling technique shows the heterogeneity of science indicators to detect the scientific performance of different research fields. The analysis here suggests two scientific behaviour of research fields, when their main research outputs are considered: research fields oriented to publications ISI (included in the Journal Citation Reports by Institute for Scientific Information) and patents and research fields Not-patenting and Not-ISI publications oriented. These results can support appropriate scientometrics for a correct research evaluation of different scientific fields.
Keywords: Research Evaluation, Scientific Performance, Indicators of Science and Technology, Research Fields, Articles, Economics of Science, Scientometrics
JEL Classification: I23, H10, L20
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