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Measuring What?

机译：测量什么？

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The authors of the focus article ((Ruscio, Seaman, D'Oriano, Stremlo, & Mahalchik, this issue) in this issue of Measurement write of a thing with which scientists and scholars are all too familiar, the assessment of published research and of its authors. I was startled to discover how little the agenda of the paper seems to engage with factors we rely on for salary and promotion decisions. Scholarly impact and productivity are indeed paramount considerations, but to the extent we choose to quantify these qualities, we normally rely on two categories of numbers: numbers of publications and numbers of citations. The authors undertake to compress this duality into a single measure of "scholarly impact." We might wonder right from the start whether number of papers published, to which I have applied the quite conventional label "productivity," is properly treated as a category of scholarly impact. I prefer to say there is no impact until the work is read and put to use and (in general) cited. While acknowledging that publication count and citation count are conceptually straightforward and easy to tally (indeed, all the hybrid measures the authors discuss are built from such counts), they emphasize that each is inadequate by itself. They do not ask what I regard as the most fundamental question: Why would we prefer any unitary measure to reliance on these two quantities together, or better, a list of publications and the number of citations to each?
机译：本期《测量》的焦点文章（（Ruscio，Seaman，D'Oriano，Stremlo和Mahalchik，本期）的作者写了一个科学家和学者都太熟悉的东西，评估了已发表的研究和我很惊讶地发现，本文的议程似乎很少涉及我们用于薪酬和晋升决策所依赖的因素，学术影响力和生产力确实是最重要的考虑因素，但是在我们选择量化这些质量的范围内，我们通常依靠两类数字：出版物数量和引文数量作者承诺将这种二重性压缩为一种“学者影响力”的度量。我们可能从一开始就想知道是否发表了论文数量，我对此有何评论？如果使用传统的标签“生产力”来恰当地将其视为学术影响力的一类，我想说的是，只有在阅读并投入使用该作品（和一般而言） ed。尽管承认出版物计数和引文计数从概念上讲是简单明了且易于统计的（实际上，作者讨论的所有混合指标均基于此类计数），但他们强调，每个计数指标本身都是不够的。他们没有问我认为什么是最基本的问题：为什么我们希望采用任何统一措施来同时依靠这两个数量，或者更好的是，依赖它们的出版物清单和引用次数？

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    《Measurement》 |2012年第4期|167-169|共3页
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    Theodore M. Porter;

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    Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, 6265 Bunche Hall, Box 951473, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);
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