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RQF publication quality measures: methodoligical issues
Lamp, John, Milton, Simon K., Dawson, Linda and Fisher, Julie 2007, RQF publication quality measures: methodoligical issues, in ACIS 2007: proceedings of the 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld, pp. 478-486.
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| Field of Research |
080708 Records and Information Management (excl Business Records and Information Management)
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| Title of paper |
RQF publication quality measures: methodoligical issues
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| Author(s) |
Lamp, John
Milton, Simon K.
Dawson, Linda
Fisher, Julie
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| Date |
2007
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| Conference name |
Australasian Conference on Information Systems (18th: 2007: Toowoomba, Qld.)
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| Title of proceedings |
ACIS 2007: proceedings of the 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems
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| Conference location |
Toowoomba, Qld.
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| Conference dates |
5-7 December 2007
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| ISBN |
9780909756963
0909756961
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| Editor(s) |
Toleman, Mark
Cater-Steel, Aileen
Roberts, David
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| Publisher |
University of Southern Queensland
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| Place of publication |
Toowoomba, Qld
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| Start page |
478
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| End page |
486
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| Keyword(s) |
research management
research evaluation
publication analysis
RQF
Thomson-ISI
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| Language |
eng
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| Summary |
The Research Quality Framework uses Thomson-ISI citation benchmarks as its main set of objective measures of research quality. The Thomson-ISI measures rely on identifying a core set of journals in which the major publications for a discipline are to be found. The core for a discipline is determined by applying a nontransparent process that is partly based on Bradford’s Law (1934). Yet Bradford was not seeking measures about quality of publications or journals. How valid then is it to base measures of publication quality on Bradford’s Law? We explore this by returning to Bradford’s Law and subsequent related research asking ‘what is Bradford’s Law really about?’ We go further, and ask ‘does Bradford’s Law apply in Information Systems?’ We use data from John Lamp’s internationally respected Index of Information Systems Journals to explore the latter question. We have found that Information Systems may have a core of journals only a subset of which is also in the list of Thomson-ISI journals. There remain many unanswered questions about the RQF metrics based on Thomson-ISI and their applicability to information systems.
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| HERDC Research category |
E1 Full written paper - refereed
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| Research Office code |
20071580
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| Copyright notice © |
2007, John Lamp, Simon Milton, Julie Fisher, Linda Dawson
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