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12 SES 02, Paper Sessions
Paper Session
Contribution
In the light of tense budgetary situations, universities and other public and private research institutes are more and more required to create transparency with regard to their performance. Accordingly, researchers are feeling an increasing pressure to perform – in particular due to the performance-based allocation of funds. In order to measure research performance effectively, easy to collect quantitative data and indicators – understood in this context as “quantifying methods” which “map preconditions, processes or results of scientific action into a numeric Comparative” (Hornbostel 1997, p. 180; my transl) – are needed.
The question which indicators are best used to measure research performance is contested. Thus, research performance can be described with the help of a number of indicators, such as, for example, publications, citations, patents, awards, journal editorships or acquisition of third-party funds. In practice, two performance indicators prevail in the field of research: the amount and origin of acquired or spent third-party funds and the number and quality of publications (see Kreysing 2008, p. 21). Information about the latter can be gathered in bibliometric analyses: while the number of publications is an indicator of scholarly productivity, citations are regarded as a measure of the impact of a scholarly publication.
The proposed paper will attempt to answer the question to what extent publications and citations can serve as performance indicators in the field of VET research, placing particular emphasis on the interdependencies between different kinds of indicators (input, output and impact indicators). From the entire spectrum of relevant publication types, particular attention will be paid to articles in scholarly journals. Thus, although journal articles play a less significant role in VET research than in the sciences, they can nonetheless be regarded as the central means of scholarly communication in this field (see Weingart/Winterhager 1984, p. 89). Accordingly, the proposed paper will focus on the conception of a journal ranking in the field of VET research to be used in bibliometric analyses.
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References
Hornbostel 1997 Hornbostel, Stefan: Wissenschaftsindikatoren. Bewertungen in der Wissenschaft. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag ISBN 3-531-12908-2 Kreysing 2008 Kreysing, Matthias: Forschungsförderung mittels leistungsorientierter Mittelvergabe. In: Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung – ZFHE 3 (2008) 1, S. 19-28 Weingart/Winterhager 1984 Weingart, Peter/Winterhager, Matthias: Die Vermessung der Forschung. Theorie und Praxis der Wissenschaftsindikatoren. Frankfurt a. M./New York: Campus ISBN 3-593-33359-7
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