Publication
Title
Is the expertise of evaluation panels congruent with the research interests of the research groups : a quantitative approach based on barycenters
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Abstract
Discipline-specific research evaluation exercises are typically carried out by panels of peers, known as expert panels. To the best of our knowledge, no methods are available to measure overlap in expertise between an expert panel and the units under evaluation. This paper explores bibliometric approaches to determine this overlap, using two research evaluations of the departments of Chemistry (2009) and Physics (2010) of the University of Antwerp as a test case. We explore the usefulness of overlay mapping on a global map of science (with Web of Science subject categories) to gauge overlap of expertise and introduce a set of methods to determine an entitys barycenter according to its publication output. Barycenters can be calculated starting from a similarity matrix of subject categories (N-dimensions) or from a visualization thereof (2-dimensions). We compare the results of the N-dimensional method with those of two 2-dimensional ones (Kamada-Kawai maps and VOS maps) and find that they yield very similar results. The distance between barycenters is used as an indicator of expertise overlap. The results reveal that there is some discrepancy between the panels and the groups publications in both the Chemistry and the Physics departments. The panels were not as diverse as the groups that were assessed. The match between the Chemistry panel and the Department was better than that between the Physics panel and the Department.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of informetrics. - Amsterdam
Publication
Amsterdam : 2015
ISSN
1751-1577
Volume/pages
9:4(2015), p. 704-721
ISI
000367612600003
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UAntwerpen
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Creation 24.08.2015
Last edited 19.10.2017
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