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Bibliometric indicators to assist the peer review process in grant decisions

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  • Grant Lewison
  • Robert Cottrell
  • Diane Dixon

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The Wellcome Trust has been using bibliometrics for the last three years to inform the panel that makes decisions on longer-term research grants in neurosciences. These compare an applicant's publications with those of a handful of scientific peers, and citations to these papers compared with a norm group in the applicant's subfield. This paper reports three surveys, two of panel members and one of applicants, to determine their knowledge and views of bibliometrics and of which indicators were the most useful. More than two-thirds of the respondents were in favour of using bibliometrics. They considered citation scores and journal-impact category rankings as being the most helpful. The panel has now decided to continue using bibliometric indicators but to simplify the analysis to make it more cost-effective. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Grant Lewison & Robert Cottrell & Diane Dixon, 1999. "Bibliometric indicators to assist the peer review process in grant decisions," Research Evaluation, Oxford University Press, vol. 8(1), pages 47-52, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rseval:v:8:y:1999:i:1:p:47-52
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    1. Rodrigo Costas & María Bordons, 2008. "Is g-index better than h-index? An exploratory study at the individual level," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 77(2), pages 267-288, November.
    2. Salil Gunashekar & Steven Wooding & Susan Guthrie, 2017. "How do NIHR peer review panels use bibliometric information to support their decisions?," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 112(3), pages 1813-1835, September.
    3. Grant Lewison, 2004. "James Bond and citations to his books," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 59(3), pages 311-320, March.

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