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Two New Factors for the Evaluation of Scientific Performance: U and U

Bilimsel Performansın Değerlendirilmesi İçin İki Yeni Faktör: U ve U’

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115–118
Publication Date
2022-11-05
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Especially the U’ factor may also be helpful for an objective selection in scientific awards, project grants and in appointingacademical staff.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Scientific performance of researchers that translates into academic improvement, tenure position in universities and project grants are commonlyevaluated by using some bibliometric indicators.
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Key Findings & Data:Thus, it is difficult to understand and analyze an individual’sperformance by the outputs coming from collaborative studies.
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Conclusion & Impact:Especially the U’ factor may also be helpful for an objective selection in scientific awards, project grants and in appointingacademical staff.
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Abstract

Scientific performance of researchers that translates into academic improvement, tenure position in universities and project grants are commonlyevaluated by using some bibliometric indicators. These indicators can be calculated through total number of papers and citations, impact factors ofpublishing journals, impact of each paper or impact of total papers. In addition, scientific impact of individuals is also determined by some indexessuch as Hirsch (h) index. All of these measures and indexes have several limitations. Scientific projects and publications are mostly collaborativeand all collaborators do not contribute to these projects and publications equally. Thus, it is difficult to understand and analyze an individual’sperformance by the outputs coming from collaborative studies. Here, a new practice for evaluating individual scientific performance is proposed.U and U’ factors are able to detect a qualified article production capacity of the scientists producing from their research projects and studiesobjectively. Although these factors may not give an idea about their exact contributions and solutions on the specific scientific problems, U factorswill assist a more objective evaluation for individual scientific performance or productivity of the scientists than other tools such as h factor andimpact factor alone. Because h factor excludes certain articles of researchers, in this paper, I propose to use U factor instead of h for a moreobjective evaluation. Especially the U’ factor may also be helpful for an objective selection in scientific awards, project grants and in appointingacademical staff.

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Araştırmacıların akademik gelişime dönüşen bilimsel performansı, üniversitelerde görev süreleri ve proje hibeleri, bazı bibliyometrik göstergeler kullanılarak değerlendirilmektedir. Bu göstergeler toplam makale sayısı ve atıflar, yayınlandıkları dergilerin etki faktörleri, her bir makalenin etkisi veya toplam makalelerin etkisi ile hesaplanabilir. Ayrıca bireylerin bilimsel etkileri de Hirsch (h) indeksi gibi bazı indeksler tarafından belirlenmektedir. Bu ölçümlerin ve indekslerin hepsinde çeşitli sınırlılıklar vardır. Bilimsel projeler ve yayınlar çoğunlukla fazla sayıda kişi ile iş birliğini gerektirir ve tüm ortak çalışanlar bu projelere ve yayınlara eşit ölçüde katkıda bulunmaz. Dolayısıyla, bir bireyin performansını kolaboratif çalışmalardan gelen çıktılarla anlamak ve analiz etmek zordur. Bu makalede bireysel bilimsel performansı değerlendirmek için yeni bir uygulama önerilmiştir. U ve U’ faktörleri, bilimcilerin araştırma projelerinden ve çalışmalarından gelen çıktıların ürün niteliğini ve nitelikli üretim kapasitesini objektif olarak tespit edebilmektedir. Bu faktörler, belirli bilimsel problemler üzerindeki kesin katkılar ve çözümler hakkında bir fikir veremese de, U faktörü, bilim insanlarının bireysel bilimsel performansı veya üretkenliği için, h faktörü ve etki faktörü gibi diğer araçlardan daha objektif bir değerlendirmeye yardımcı olacaktır. H faktörü, araştırmacıların bazı çalışmalarını göz ardı edebilmektedir ve bu makalede, daha objektif bir değerlendirme için h yerine U faktörü kullanımı önerilmektedir. U’ faktörü de özellikle bilimsel ödüllerde, proje hibelerinde ve akademik personelin atanmasında objektif bir seçim için yararlı olabilir.

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UZBAY, T. (2022). Two New Factors for the Evaluation of Scientific Performance: U and U. Turkish Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cilt: 16 - Sayı: 1, 115–118. https://ajindex.com/articles/613809

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