Parallel session 3 - Monday 19 September 2016

1. Local Bibliometric
Indicators and Research
Mobility
prof. dr. Elizabeth Amann
Ghent University

2. Obstacles
• language barriers
• uncompetitive salaries
• loyalty bonds
• local traditions
• privileging of teaching
needs over research
• internal selection
committees
• insufficient dissemination
of job ads
• differences in academic
career structures
• different “cultures of
counting”

3. Local Bibliometric Indicators
• Flanders:VABB (Flemish Academic Bibliographic
Database
• Denmark: BRI (Bibliometric Research Indicator)
• Finland: JUFO Publication Forum
• Norway: CRISTIN (Current Research
Information System)
• Spain: SPI (Scholarly Publishers Index)
• France: Listes de revues SHS de l’AERES
• Italy: Classificazione delle Riviste - ANVUR ...

4. Local Bibliometric Indicators
• pro: correction of omissions
• book publications
• non-Anglophone venues
• underrepresented disciplines (Social Sciences
and Humanities)
• cons:
• low level of overlap among indicators
• negative impact on international mobility

5. Local Bibliometric Indicators
• Flanders:VABB (Flemish Academic Bibliographic
Database
• Denmark: BRI (Bibliometric Research Indicator)
• Finland: JUFO Publication Forum
• Norway: CRISTIN (Current Research
Information System)
• Spain: SPI (Scholarly Publishers Index)
• France: Listes de revues SHS de l’AERES
• Italy: Classificazione delle Riviste - ANVUR ...

6. Book Publisher Lists/Rankings
• Denmark: Levels 1 & 2 (2 = highest)
• Norway: Levels 1 & 2 (2 = highest)
• Finland: Levels 1, 2 & 3 (3 = highest)
• Flanders: list of automatically recognized presses
• Spain: a ranking:
......

7. Book Publisher Lists/Rankings
• Denmark: Levels 1 & 2
• Norway: Levels 1 & 2
• Finland: Levels 1, 2 & 3 (15 presses)
• Flanders: list of automatically recognized presses
• Spain: a ranking:
top 15
...

8. Book Publisher Lists/Rankings
• Denmark: Levels 1 & 2 (89 presses)
• Norway: Levels 1 & 2 (87 presses)
• Finland: Levels 1, 2 (93 presses) & 3 (15 presses)
• Flanders: list of automatically recognized
presses (135 presses)
• Spain: a ranking:
top 105
......

9. total: 246 presses
33%
27%
33%
28%21%

10. total: 246 presses
13%
20%
6%
52%35%

11. weighting book publications
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Danish 5 8
Finnish 6 1212
Norwegian 5 8
Flemish 444

12. recommendations
• single transnational list of publication venues
• compiled by international committees of
researchers and collection development
librarians
• focus on ‘good practices’: external peer
review, international visibility, no
publication fees
• common convention for weighting
publications