1. Bibliometric Services at the Masaryk University
Michal Petr
Office for Research, Masaryk University
MUST Week 5th September 2018

2. Bibliometrics = useful information for all stakeholders
Scientific information
Key players (authors, institutions, etc.)
„Hot topics“ and „hot papers“
Networks
Visibility
Impact
Potential competitors/collaborators
Benchmark
Research evaluation and funding
Bibliometrics is undoubtedly an useful source of information for the variety of users and for informing research strategies and science policy.
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3. We support:
Resources
Centre for Scientometric Support – bibliometric team (2 people, ca. 1 FTE) scientometrics.muni.cz Comprehensive national / institutional CRIS Web of Science platform: InCites (since 2013), WoS Profiles, Essential Science Indicators Scopus Google Scholar Analytical tools: Bibexcel, Pajek, VOSViewer, Gephi
Lets move a little bit to the bibliometric service, what we use
Were trying to provide expert service which naturallly needs ongoing education and following internationally recognized best practices
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4. Activities Support Analytics Lectures
Maintaining the accurate and reliable database record of the university; person-department relation
Research-related university policies
Analytics
University, departments, teams, individuals
Lectures
Research evaluation topics, research and publishing ethics, self-promotion, open-access, …
We have a broad portfolio of activities
Best Practices in Scientific Publishing
MU’s Position on Predatory Publishing and Open Access Scholarly Journals
Recommendations for working with and understanding bibliometric indicators
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5. Bibliometrics at Masaryk University – customers
Leadership
International collaboration
Faculty evaluations (yearly)
Ongoing regular analyses of university performance
Identification of excellent topics e.g. for webpages and official promotional activities
Submitting excellent results in the national research evaluation
Lets come closer to who are our costumers which also indicates the variability of analyses conducted
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6. Bibliometrics at Masaryk University – customers
Units
Multidimensional analyses for faculties, departments, teams
Individuals
Bibliometric profiles for individual scientists – habilitations and professorial appointments
Supporting or evaluating grant applications
General support (informing publication strategies, increasing visibility, …)
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7. Bibliometrics at Masaryk University – solutions
more perspectives: activity, visibility (journals), impact (citations), collaboration, knowledge base, …
Perhaps you know that in bibliometrics you should never use one indicator to assess the whole systém.
Criterion for expert bibliometrics.
We always try to watch from more perspectives.
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8. Bibliometrics at Masaryk University – solutions
more perspectives: activity, visibility (journals), impact (citations), collaboration, knowledge base, …
WoS Docs
CNCI
Times Cited*
% Docs Cited
PP (top 1%)
PP (top 10%)
Average Percentile
Highly Cited Papers
% Intl. Collab. 47
1,25
962
95,74
12,77
34,7
80,85
Widely spread opinion is that we can study the academic impact by citations.
According to my opinion , the most effective way is to use the indicators based on the percetile distribudtion
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9. Collaboration network
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10. Knowledge base Influential topics
Which topics the researches who are citing my research are dealing with
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11. Case study – seeking research excellence
Objectives
To identify „Focus topics“ for official promotion of the university research
To map university's research potential
Approach: Bottom up
Identification of influential research topics – top percentiles, normalized citation impact, visibility
Network analysis – affiliated authors, clusters and research topics
Examining other production of authors affiliated to highly-cited publications (ESI)
Prestigious grants, awards, peer review results
Top-down
Involvement of faculties
To finish my speech I would like to show you a very special case
and to draw attention to individuals’ excellence in contrast with traditional faculty research trajectories
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12. Case study – seeking research excellence – results
„University Profile Map“
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13. Case study – seeking research excellence – results
„Excellent“ topics
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14. J. Leichmann, M. Petr, P. Dvořák: International Comparison of Research Quality at the Faculty of Science (in Czech only), online.muni.cz, available:
„…excellent results are produced mostly by small and narrow, specialized teams concentrated around a few personalities. Production of internationally excellent results is at units of size of the Faculty possible only for a few „microfields“.
Bibliommetrcis is not only the analysis itself, but also the interpretation.
Has a science policy implications
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15. Cultivates the environment, valuable discussion What library can do:
Conclusions
Why bibliometrics:
Cultivates the environment, valuable discussion
What library can do:
Expert bibliometric support – role of modern scientific library
Cleaning bibliographic information in databases (reliable and valid data)
Supporting researchers in publish or perish game, visibility, networking, self-promotion
Just to conclude all these things, what i learned form bibliometrics is that it initiates valuable discussion
strengthen the position of library
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16. Thank you for your attention
Mgr. Michal Petr
Office for Research
Masaryk University
Žerotínovo náměstí 9, Brno
Tel
scientometrics.muni.cz
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