Severe language effect in university rankings: particularly Germany and France are wronged in citation-based rankings

We applied a set of standard bibliometric indicators to monitor the scientific state-of-arte of 500 universities worldwide and constructed a ranking on the basis of these indicators (Leiden Ranking 2010). We find a dramatic and hitherto largely underestimated language effect in the bibliometric, cit...

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Autores principales: van Raan, Anthony F. J., van Leeuwen, Thed N., Visser, Martijn S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21836762
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0382-1
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description We applied a set of standard bibliometric indicators to monitor the scientific state-of-arte of 500 universities worldwide and constructed a ranking on the basis of these indicators (Leiden Ranking 2010). We find a dramatic and hitherto largely underestimated language effect in the bibliometric, citation-based measurements of research performance when comparing the ranking based on all Web of Science (WoS) covered publications and on only English WoS covered publications, particularly for Germany and France.
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spelling pubmed-31255052011-08-09 Severe language effect in university rankings: particularly Germany and France are wronged in citation-based rankings van Raan, Anthony F. J. van Leeuwen, Thed N. Visser, Martijn S. Scientometrics Article We applied a set of standard bibliometric indicators to monitor the scientific state-of-arte of 500 universities worldwide and constructed a ranking on the basis of these indicators (Leiden Ranking 2010). We find a dramatic and hitherto largely underestimated language effect in the bibliometric, citation-based measurements of research performance when comparing the ranking based on all Web of Science (WoS) covered publications and on only English WoS covered publications, particularly for Germany and France. Springer Netherlands 2011-04-13 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3125505/ /pubmed/21836762 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0382-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2011 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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title_short Severe language effect in university rankings: particularly Germany and France are wronged in citation-based rankings
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0382-1
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