A comment to the paper by Waltman et al., Scientometrics, 87, 467–481, 2011

Tobias Opthof () and Loet Leydesdorff
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Tobias Opthof: Heart Failure Research Center, Academic Medical Center AMC

Scientometrics, 2011, vol. 88, issue 3, No 20, 1016 pages

Abstract: Abstract In reaction to a previous critique (Opthof and Leydesdorff, J Informetr 4(3):423–430, 2010), the Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) in Leiden proposed to change their old “crown” indicator in citation analysis into a new one. Waltman (Scientometrics 87:467–481, 2011a) argue that this change does not affect rankings at various aggregated levels. However, CWTS data is not publicly available for testing and criticism. Therefore, we comment by using previously published data of Van Raan (Scientometrics 67(3):491–502, 2006) to address the pivotal issue of how the results of citation analysis correlate with the results of peer review. A quality parameter based on peer review was neither significantly correlated with the two parameters developed by the CWTS in the past citations per paper/mean journal citation score (CPP/JCSm) or CPP/FCSm (citations per paper/mean field citation score) nor with the more recently proposed h-index (Hirsch, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102(46):16569–16572, 2005). Given the high correlations between the old and new “crown” indicators, one can expect that the lack of correlation with the peer-review based quality indicator applies equally to the newly developed ones.

Keywords: Citation; Indicator; h-index; Quality; Excellence; Selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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