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- Igelström, Peter, 1976-
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20 frågor om bibliometri
- 2018
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In: Ett bibliotek i takt med tiden. - Linköping : Linköpings universitetsbibliotek. - 9789176851470 ; , s. 137-142
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- De flesta yrkesverksamma vid forskningsbibliotek eller inom forskarvärlden har förmodligen på ett eller annat sätt kommit i kontakt med bibliometri, eller åtminstone stött på begreppet. För den som inte är närmare insatt kan dock bibliometrin lätt uppfattas som lite av ett mysterium. Vad går en citeringsanalys egentligen ut på? Vad är det för indikatorer som man talar om inom bibliometrin? Och vad är den ”norska modellen” för någonting?För den som i likhet med mig har en något diffus bild av hur bibliometriska analyser går till, hjälper här medlemmar av Linköpings universitetsbiblioteks bibliometrigrupp till att reda ut begreppen. Gruppen tillkom 2007 på initiativ av bibliotekets dåvarande överbibliotekarie Marianne Hällgren. Syftet var att kunna erbjuda enskilda forskare, forskargrupper och fakulteter vid Linköpings universitet bibliometrisk rådgivning och analys. Internationella rankinglistor över lärosäten hade vid den här tiden börjat få större uppmärksamhet och mätning av universitetens forskningsproduktion fick därför allt större betydelse. Vid forskningsbibliotek hade man sedan länge gjort bibliometriska analyser med hjälp av manuella metoder, men nya digitala verktyg tillät nu att mer avancerade analyser utfördes. Vid LiUB valde man att skapa en grupp som jobbade med bibliometri istället för att som på många andra lärosäten tillsätta enskilda tjänster, detta för att göra bibliometriarbetet mindre personberoende. I april 2009 inrättades vid biblioteket avdelningen Publiceringens infrastruktur (PI) med ansvar för bland annat bibliometriverksamheten vid Linköpings universitetsbibliotek.
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- Larsson, Staffan, 1947-, et al.
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Invisible colleges in research on adult learning : a bibliometric study on international scholarly recognition
- 2019. - 1
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In: Mapping out the research field of adult education and learning. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030109455 - 9783030109462 ; , s. 73-97
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- An “economy of publications and citations” has emerged in academia, where databases as Web of Science and Scopus provide tools for “quality” measurements. The assumption is that such measurements are unbiased in terms of geography, language, gender etc. This is investigated by scrutinizing the “invisible colleges”, i.e. networks of citations in adult learning/education journals, indexed by Scopus. A bibliometric analysis is made of 151,261 direct citation links in 5 journals published between 2006–2014. The outcome shows a pattern of biases: a US/UK, anglophone, male domination. It also shows how the investigated field consists of many loosely connected invisible colleges. This might make the field weak in terms of academic power.
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- Nylander, Erik, 1982-, et al.
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Exploring the Adult Learning Research Field by Analysing Who Cites Whom
- 2018
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In: Vocations and Learning. - : Springer. - 1874-785X .- 1874-7868. ; 11:1, s. 113-131
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article we report on findings from a large-scale bibliographic study conducted based on the citation practices within the field of research on adult learning. Our data consist of 151,261 citation links between more than 33,000 different authors whose papers were published in five leading international journals in the field of adult learning during the time period 2006–2014. By analysing the composition of the dominating citation clusters we are able to construct a telescopic view of the research field based on an accumulation of bibliographic citations. The results consist of two parts. First we go through the dominating players active in the field, their position and mutual relationship. Secondly, we derive two main structural oppositions inherent in the citation networks, one connected to the research object (studying education or work) and the second to the level of analysis (cognition or policy). We find that the most dominating tradition within adult learning the last few decades – sociocultural perspectives on learning - occupies a very central position in the space of citations, balancing between these opposing poles. We hope that this analysis will help foster reflexivity concerning our own research practices, and will reveal the relations of dominance currently prevailing within the field of adult learning.
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- Nylander, Erik, 1982-, et al.
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Exploring the adult learning research field by analysing who cites whom
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In: Mapping out the research field of adult education and learning. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030109455 - 9783030109462 ; , s. 55-72
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article we report on findings from a large-scale bibliographic study conducted based on the citation practices within the field of research on adult learning. Our data consist of 151,261 citation links between more than 33,000 different authors whose papers were published in five leading international journals in the field of adult learning during the time period 2006–2014. By analysing the composition of the dominating citation clusters we are able to construct a telescopic view of the research field based on an accumulation of bibliographic citations. The results consist of two parts. First we go through the dominating players active in the field, their position and mutual relationship. Secondly, we derive two main structural oppositions inherent in the citation networks, one connected to the research object (studying education or work) and the second to the level of analysis (cognition or policy). We find that the most dominating tradition within adult learning the last few decades – socio- cultural perspectives on learning – occupies a very central position in the space of citations, balancing between these opposing poles. We hope that this analysis will help foster reflexivity concerning our own research practices, and will reveal the relations of dominance currently prevailing within the field of adult learning.
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- Nylander, Erik, 1982-, et al.
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The use of bibliometrics in adult education research
- 2020. - 1
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In: Doing critical and creative research in adult education. - : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004420731 - 9789004420731 ; , s. 139-150
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The aim of this chapter is to introduce a methodological approach that can be used in order to analyze how the adult education research field is shaped through research practices, measurement standards and indexation. More specifically, we focus on three formative dimensions that we argue play a significant role in constructing “the rules of the game” in contemporary academia: (i) indexation, (ii) publications and (iii) citations. Our account is nowhere close to exhaustive but outlines how bibliographic data and bibliometric methodology can be used. Hence, to build our argument we draw on the research traditions of bibliometrics which, in the last few decades, has become linked to a highly controversial subject. Namely, how the reward system of the modern university should function. What will be the basis of ‘quality’ assessments of universities? How will merit be fought about and money distributed across different universities and disciplines?
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- Olsson, Lisa, et al.
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Cancelling with the world's largest scholarly publisher : lessons from the Swedish experience of having no access to Elsevier
- 2020
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In: Insights. - : Ubiquity Press, Ltd.. - 2048-7754. ; 33:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article covers the consequences of the decision of the Bibsam consortium to cancel its journal licence agreement with Elsevier, the world's largest scholarly publisher, in 2018. First, we report on how the cancellation affected Swedish researchers. Second, we describe other consequences of the cancellation. Finally, we report on lessons for the future. In short, there was no consensus among researchers on how the cancellation affected them or whether the cancellation was positive or negative for them. Just over half (54%) of the 4,221 researchers who responded to a survey indicated that the cancellation had harmed their work, whereas 37% indicated that it had not. Almost half (48%) of the researchers had a negative view of the cancellation, whereas 38% had a positive view. The cancellation highlighted the ongoing work at research libraries to facilitate the transition to an open access publishing system to more stakeholders in academia than before. It also showed that Swedish vice-chancellors were prepared to suspend subscriptions with a publisher that could not accommodate the needs and requirements of open science. Finally, the cancellation resulted in the signing of a transformative agreement which started on 1 January 2020. If it had not been for the cancellation, the reaching of such an agreement would have been unlikely.
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- Olsson, Lisa, et al.
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Swedish researchers' responses to the cancellation of the big deal with Elsevier
- 2020
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In: Insights: the UKSG journal. - : Ubiquity Press, Ltd.. - 2048-7754. ; 33
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In 2018, the Swedish library consortium, Bibsam, decided to cancel big deal subscriptions with Elsevier. Many researchers (n = 4,221) let their voices be heard in a survey on the consequences of the cancellation. Almost a third of them (n = 1,241) chose to leave free-text responses to the survey question 'Is there anything you would like to add?'. A content analysis on these responses resulted in six themes and from these, three main conclusions are drawn. First, there is no consensus among researchers on whether the cancellation was for good or evil. The most common argument in favour of the cancellation was the principle. The most common argument against cancellation was that it harms researchers and research. A third of the free-text responses expressed ambivalence towards the cancellation, typically as a conflict between wanting to change the current publishing system and simultaneously suffering from the consequences of the cancellation. The general support for open access in principle reveals a flawed publishing system, as most feel the pressure to publish in prestigious journals behind paywalls in practice. Second, it was difficult for researchers to take a position for or against cancellation due to their limited knowledge of the ongoing work of higher education institutions and library consortia. Finally, there are indications that the cancellation made researchers reflect on open access and to some extent alter their publication pattern through their choice of copyright licence and publication channel.
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- Österlund, Heléne, et al.
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Micro litter in the urban environment : sampling andanalysis of undisturbed snow
- 2019
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In: 10e Conférence internationale L'eau dans la ville. - : GRAIE. ; , s. 185-185
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Micro litter was analysed in undisturbed urban snow samples from six sites in the Town of Luleå, Northern Sweden and one control/reference site in the rural areas outside the city. All samples were taken through the whole snow depth, 72-106 cm deep and 107/8 days old, using a snow core sampler. The snow samples were melted, filtered consecutively on 300 and 50 µm filters, and finally analysis of micro litter particles on the filters were counted and categorised under a microscope. The categories were natural and synthetic fibres, plastic fragments, black rubber and other anthropogenic black particles. The results showed that fibres were in the same order of magnitude in the snow as in untreated wastewater and atmospheric fallout. Rubber particles were only detected in snow from the sites near trafficked roads indicating that this size range of rubber does not transport very far. Combustion particles were detected in the highest concentration in all samples. These are proposed to originate from traffic (central sites) and wood burning (residential sites). Plastic fragments were the least detected category in this study corresponding to only a few items per litre of melted snow.
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