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		<title>What kind of societal relevance do we want?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question about the societal relevance and economic impact of research is increasingly put forward in peer review of research projects, annual appraisal interviews, and institutional research assessment exercises. This is part of a more generic trend in accountability practices in a variety of societal sectors and in the way strategic intelligence is managed in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=citationculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27619120&amp;post=293&amp;subd=citationculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journal ranking biased against interdisciplinary research</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wouters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The widespread use of rankings of journals in research institutes and universities creates a disadvantage for interdisciplinary research in assessment exercises such as the British Research Excellence Framework. This is the conclusion of a paper presented at the 2011 Annual Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science in Cleveland (US) by Ismael [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=citationculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27619120&amp;post=288&amp;subd=citationculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard no longer number 1 in ranking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the new Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011-2012 saw the light. The ranking revealed that Harvard University is no longer number one on the list. Incidentally, the differences with Caltech &#8211; now highest &#8211; are minimal. The main reason for Caltech’s rise are the extra revenues it drew out of industry. Caltech’s income [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=citationculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27619120&amp;post=281&amp;subd=citationculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perspectives on computer simulation and data visualization</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah de Rijcke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to critical analysis of the role of computers, data visualization, simulations and modeling in the sciences, much can be learned from humanities scholars. I’m currently teaching a course on the role of computer-generated images in contemporary science and visual culture at Utrecht University. Yesterday I learned that the New Media department hosts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=citationculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27619120&amp;post=271&amp;subd=citationculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Academic Careers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah de Rijcke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 16, 2011, the Rathenau Institute and the VU University Amsterdam organize a symposium on Dynamics of Academic Leadership. The symposium addresses the conditions that are necessary for high levelperformance and creativity in research, and the implications for researchmanagement and policy. Paul is one of the invited speakers. He will discuss some of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=citationculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27619120&amp;post=218&amp;subd=citationculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science mapping: do we know what we visualize?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah de Rijcke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent landmark in the field of science mapping is Katy Börner’s Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know (MIT Press, 2010). The atlas recently won the ASIS&#38;T Best Information Science Book Award 2011.The kinds of maps covered by the atlas range from historical timelines, network diagrams and citation networks revealing rises in patent citations, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=citationculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27619120&amp;post=219&amp;subd=citationculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still using the Hirsch index? Don’t!</title>
		<link>http://citationculture.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/still-using-the-hirsch-index-dont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wouters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“My research: &#62; 185 papers, h-index 40.” A random quote from a curriculum vitae in the World Wide Web. Sometimes, researchers love their Hirsch index, better known as the h-index. But what does the measure actually mean? Is it a reliable indicator of scientific impact? Our colleagues Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=citationculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27619120&amp;post=220&amp;subd=citationculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not much news in new Shanghai rankings</title>
		<link>http://citationculture.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/not-much-news-in-new-shanghai-rankings-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wouters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks before the start of the 2011 academic season, the latest issue of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was published. The response to this ranking in the Netherlands is telling about the importance ascribed to global university rankings. Utrecht University saw its position improved with 2 points and went to number 48. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=citationculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27619120&amp;post=221&amp;subd=citationculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rankings under Groninger fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 12:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wouters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rafael Wittek, director of the Internuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology, based at the University of Groningen, recently attacked Dutch university policies at the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his famous graduate school. One of his targets was “the hype around rankings”. Accredited in 1986, the ICS was the first national social [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=citationculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27619120&amp;post=222&amp;subd=citationculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anxiety about quality may hinder open access</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 10:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wouters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anxiety about the quality of open access journals hinders the further spread of open access publications. This conclusion was cited many times during the recent Co-ordinating workshop on Open Access to Scientific Information, in Brussels on May 4 this year. The workshop was attended by about 70 key players in Open Access and was organized [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=citationculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27619120&amp;post=223&amp;subd=citationculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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