Publications
2005
‘Advantages and Dangers of ‘Remote’ Peer Evaluation’
J. Gläser and G. Laudel, Research Evaluation, 14(3):186-198. (PDF)
‘Migration Currents Among the Scientific Elite’
G. Laudel, Minerva, 43:377-395.
‘The Impact of Evaluations on the Content of Australian University Research’
J. Gläser and G. Laudel, in Proceedings TASA 2005 conference, Community, Place, Change, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay Campus, 5-8 Dec, 11 pages. (PDF)
‘Is External Research Funding a Valid Indicator for Research Performance?’
G. Laudel, Research Evaluation, 14(1):27-34.
‘The Governance of Social Science and Everyday Epistemology’
C. Donovan, Public Administration, 83(3):597-615.
‘In Defence of ‘Early Career Universities’’
L. Butler, In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Stockholm, Sweden, July 24-28th, Vol 1, pp. 290-294.
‘New Concepts, Old Weakness: Virtual Community’ (Neue Begriffe, alte Schwächen: Virtuelle Gemeinschaft)
J. Gläser, In M. Jäckel, M. Mai (Hrsg.), Online-Vergesellschaftung? Mediensoziologische Perspektiven auf neue Kommunikationstechnologien, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, pp.51-72. (in German).
‘Women in Higher Education: Issues and Challenges for Part-time Scientists’
C. Donovan, B. Hodgson, E. Scanlon and E. Whitelegg in Women’s Studies International Forum, 28(2-3):247-258.
2004
‘The Myth of the “Breakdown of Control Systems”’
J. Gläser, Erwägen Wissen Ethik, 15:476-478. (in German)
‘Conclave in the Tower of Babel: How Peers Review Interdisciplinary Research’
G. Laudel, in Proceedings TASA 2004 conference, Revisioning Institutions: Change in the 21st Century, La Trobe University, Beechworth Campus, 8-11 December, 8 pages. (PDF)
‘Social Movements as Communities’
J. Gläser, in Proceedings TASA 2004 conference, Revisioning Institutions: Change in the 21st Century, La Trobe University, Beechworth Campus, 8-11 December, 10 pages. (PDF)
‘Expert Interviews and Qualitative Content Analysis as Instruments of Reconstructive Empirical Investigations’
J. Gläser and G. Laudel, Experteninterviews und qualitative Inhaltsanalyse als Instrumente rekonstruierender Untersuchungen, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. ISBN: 3-81-3522-X. (in German)
‘What Happens when Funding is Linked to Publication Counts?’
L. Butler, In H.F. Moed, W. Gläzel and U. Schmoch (eds), Handbook of Quantative Science and Technology Research. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. 2004, pp. 389-40.
‘Why are the Most Influential Books in Australian Sociology not Necessarily the most Highly Cited Ones?’
J. Gläser, Journal of Sociology, 40(3):261-282.
‘The Governance of Social Science’
C. Donovan, in Proceedings Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, Adelaide, 29 September - 1 October 2004, 32 pages. (PDF)
‘ARC-Supported Research: The Impact of Journal Publication Output 1996-2000’
L. Butler, Australian Research Council, Canberra, 199pp.
(available online at www.arc.gov.au/pdf/arc_supported_research.pdf)
‘Intraorganisational Evaluation: Are There ‘Least Evaluable Units’?’
J. Gläser, T.H. Spurling and L. Butler, Research Evaluation, 13(1):19-32.
‘Celebrated Sociologists’
A.H. Halsey and C. Donovan, in A.H. Halsey, A History of Sociology in Britain: Science, Literature and Society, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 168-179.
‘The Shape of Sociology’
A.H. Halsey and C. Donovan, in A.H. Halsey, A History of Sociology in Britain: Science, Literature and Society, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 180-200.
‘Citation and Content Analysis’
C. Donovan, in A.H. Halsey A History of Sociology in Britain: Science, Literature and Society, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 241-249.
‘Introduction: Heterogeneous Collaboration’
J. Gläser, in Jörg Strübing, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Martin Meister (Eds), Cooperation in No Man’s Land, Leske + Budrich, Opladen, pp. 7-24. (in German)
2003
‘NHMRC-Supported Research: The Impact of Journal Publication Output’
L Butler, National Health and Medical Research Council, Canberra. 74 pages.
(available online at www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/synopses/nh75syn.htm)
‘Social Science in the Service of Science and Technology: A Case of Mistaken Identity within National Research Policy’
C Donovan, in Proceedings TASA 2003 conference, New Times, New Worlds, New Ideas: Sociology Today and Tomorrow, University of New England, Armidale, 4-6 December, 8 pages.
‘The Art of Getting Funded: How Scientists Adapt to their Funding Conditions’
G Laudel, in Proceedings TASA 2003 conference, New Times, New Worlds, New Ideas: Sociology Today and Tomorrow, University of New England, Armidale, 4-6 December, 11 pages.
‘A Highly Efficient Waste of Effort: Open Source Software Development as a Specific System of Collective Production’
J Gläser, in Proceedings TASA 2003 conference, New Times, New Worlds, New Ideas: Sociology Today and Tomorrow, University of New England, Armidale, 4-6 December, 9 pages.
‘Privatisierung von Wissenschaft?’
J Gläser, in S. Böschen and I. Schulz-Schaeffer (HRSG.), Wissenschaft in der Wissensgesellschaft, Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden pp. 55-76.
‘Modifying Publication Practices in response to Funding Formulas’
L. Butler, Research Evaluation, 12(1):39-46.
‘Explaining Australia’s Increased Share of ISI publications — The Effects of a Funding Formula Based on Publication Counts’
L. Butler,Research Policy, 32(1):143-155.
‘What Internet Use Does and Does not Change in Scientific Communities’
J Gläser, Science Studies, 16(1):38-51.
‘Studying the Brain Drain: Can Bibliometric Methods Help?’
G. Laudel, Scientometrics, 57(2):215-237.
2002
‘A List of Published Papers in No Measure of Value’
L. Butler, Nature, 419(6910):877, 31 October.
‘What Do We Measure by Co-Authorships?’
G. Laudel, Research Evaluation, 11(1):3-15.
‘Identifying “Highly-rated” Journals - An Australian Case Study’
L. Butler, Scientometrics, 53(2):207-227.
2001
‘Integrating Scientometric Indicators into Sociological Studies: Methodical and Methodological Problems’
J. Gläser and G. Laudel, Scientometrics, 52(3):411-434.
‘Monitoring Australia’s Scientific Research’
L. Butler, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra. 173pp.
Copies are available @$55.00 from the Australian Academy of Science www.science.org.au.
‘Mode 2a and Mode 2b’
J. Gläser, In Gerd Bender (Ed.), New Modes of Knowledge Production, Campus, Frankfurt/New York, pp. 83-99. (in German)
‘Analysing the Journal Output of NHMRC Research Grants Schemes’
L. Butler and B. Biglia, National Health and Medical Research Council, Canberra, March, 108pp.
(available online at www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/synopses/r21syn.htm)
‘What is Behind Australia’s Increased Share of ISI Publications’
L. Butler, In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, Sydney, Australia, July 16-20th, University of New South Wales, Vol 1, pp. 89-101.
‘Revisiting Bibliometric Issues Using New Empirical Data’
L. Butler, Research Evaluation, 10(1):59-65.
2000
‘Educational Research in Australia: A Bibliometric Analysis’
T.J. Phelan, D.S. Anderson and P. Bourke, In The Impact of Educational Research, Higher Education Division, Department of Education, Training & Youth Affairs, Canberra, December, pp. 575-671.
‘Evaluation of Scientific Productivity’
T. Phelan, Scientist, 14(19):39.
‘Is Australian Educational Research Worthwhile?’
T. Phelan, Australian Journal of Education, 44(2):175-194.
‘Indicators Used to Measure the Innovation Process: Defects and Possible Remedies’
M. Dodgson and S. Hinze, Research Evaluation, 9(2):101-114.
‘Special Issue on Data and Strategies in Evaluating Public R&D’
Bev Biglia (Guest editor), Research Evaluation, 9(2).
This issue contains papers from a conference held by REPP in November 1999.
1999
‘The Efficacy of Different Modes of Funding Research: Perspectives from Australian Data on the Biological Sciences’
P. Bourke and L. Butler, Research Policy, 28:489-499.
‘Funding Australia’s Basic Biomedical Research of 1993 and 1994’
L. Butler, The Medical Journal of Australia, 171(11/12):629-633.
‘Who ‘Owns’ this Publication?’
L. Butler, In Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Colima, Mexico, July 5-8., Universidad de Colima, pp. 87-96, 1999.
‘Collaboration and Cross-disciplinarity in Autoimmune Diseases.’
S. Hinze, In Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Colima, Mexico, July 5-8., Universidad de Colima, pp. 195-209, 1999.
Also reprinted in Scientometrics, 46(3):457-471, 1999.
‘Why Are There Top Dogs in Global Science?’
T. Phelan and S. Cole, Times Higher Education Supplement, June 18, 1999.
Also reprinted as ‘The Science of Scientific Output’, T. Phelan and S. Cole, The Australian, June 30, 1999.
‘Educational Research in Australia: A Bibliometric Analysis’
T. Phelan, P. Bourke, and D. Anderson, In Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, The Impact of Educational Research, DETYA No. 6646.HERC00A, Canberra, pp. 579-671.
‘A Compendium of Issues for Citation Analysis’
T. Phelan, Scientometrics, 45(1):117-136, 1999.
‘The Scientific Productivity of Nations’
S. Cole and T. Phelan, Minerva, 37(1):1-23, Spring 1999.
‘A Bibliometric Analysis of Biological Sciences Research in Australia’
P. Bourke, L. Butler and B. Biglia, Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Higher Education Division, DETYA No. 6307HERC99A, Commonwealth of Australia, June 1999 .
‘Internationalization of Technological Competencies in the Pharmaceutical Industry’
G. Reger and S. Hinze, In G. Reger, M. Beise and H. Belitz (eds), Internationalization of Technological Competencies. Trends and Effects in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Semiconductors and Telecommunication. Physica, Heidelberg. 1999. (in German)
1998
‘Australian Biomedical Research: Funding Acknowledgements and Performance’
L. Butler, B. Biglia and P. Bourke, National Health and Medical Research Council Report, Catalogue No. 9812335, December 1998.
(Available online at www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/synopses/r9cover.htm)
‘The Concentration of Research in Australian Universities: Six Measures of Activity and Impact’
P. Bourke and L. Butler, Higher Education Series, Report No. 32, Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, August 1998.
‘Institutions and the Map of Science: Matching University Departments and Fields of Research’
P. Bourke and L. Butler, Research Policy, 26:711-718, 1998.
1997
‘CSIRO: Profile of Basic Research’
P. Bourke, L. Butler and B. Biglia, Monograph Series No. 4 ,1997.
In 1996 the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) commissioned a report to be carried out by the Research Evaluation and Policy Project (REPP). The report provided a bibliometric profile of the basic research output and performance of the organisation. It included a comparison between CSIRO and other Australian research sectors in the fields and sub-fields of research in which the organisation is active. This monograph, the latest in the REPP series, publishes the major findings of the report. The study found that CSIRO’s presence in the scientific literature has not declined, despite the pressure for closer ties with industry and the ‘distractions of recent restructuring’. Its continuing strength in the major journal indices depends substantially on its traditional areas of strength: agricultural, earth and applied sciences; engineering and biotechnology.
‘Mapping Australia’s Basic Research in the Medical and Health Sciences’
P. Bourke and L. Butler, The Medical Journal of Australia, 167:610-613, 1/15 December 1997.
‘Mapping Discipline Boundaries in the Social Sciences’
P. Bourke, 1996 K.S. Cunningham Annual Lecture, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, 1997.
‘Evaluating University Research: The British Research Assessment Exercise and Australian Practice’
P. Bourke, National Board of Employment, Education and Training Commissioned Report No. 56, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, July 1997.
‘Knowledge Production, Patents and Technological Intelligence’
K. Devanney and B. Biglia, Proceedings of a Conference on the Assessment and Use of Scientific and Technological Knowledge, March 1997.
1996
‘Monitoring Research in the Periphery: Australia and the ISI Indices’
P. Bourke, L. Butler and B. Biglia, Monograph Series No. 3, 1996.
Previous studies have shown that the publication of research in ISI indexed journals substantially increases its impact. This study examines the international focus of publication patterns in Australia and investigates the international visibility of Australian research. In addition, Monitoring Research in the Periphery: Australia and the ISI Indices explores the nature and extent of ISI coverage and questions its efficacy as a measure of research activity.
‘Publication Types, Citation Rates and Evaluation’
P. Bourke and L. Butler, Scientometrics, 37(3):473-494, 1996.
‘Standard Issues in a National Bibliometric Database: The Australian Case’
P. Bourke and L. Butler, Scientometrics, 35(2):199-207, 1996.
‘Bibliometric Analysis Prepared for The Strategic Review of the Psychology Discipline’, P. Bourke and L. Butler, In Psychological Science in Australia, National Board of Employment, Education and Training, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, pp. 111-153, April 1996.
‘ARC Should Do Its Research’
P. Bourke and J. Madden, The Australian Higher Education Supplement, April 24, 1996.
1995
‘Recent Foresight Studies: Implications for Australia’
P. Bourke and L. Butler, Monograph Series No. 2, 1995.
This publication examines the findings of American and British studies into the future directions of science and technology research. Recent Foresight Studies: Implications for Australia considers the implications of these studies for Australian research and development and suggests ways in which Australia can participate to best advantage in future global scientific developments.
‘International Links in Higher Education Research’
P. Bourke and L. Butler, National Board of Employment, Education and Training, Commissioned Report No. 37, 1995.
The foremost study of international connections of Australian university research, this report details the differing patterns of international collaboration across disciplines and universities. In recognition of the increasing globalision of research, this study emphasises the escalating impact of Asian-Pacific countries in international scientific discovery and suggests that Australian science would benefit by taking full advantage of developments in this rapidly changing region.
‘The Use of Bibliometic Data in Evaluating a Research University: Issues and Measures’
P. Bourke and L. Butler, In Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, River Forest IL, USA, June 7-10, Learned Information Inc., NJ. pp. 93-102, 1995.
‘The SCI Works Well’
P. Bourke and L. Butler, The Australian Higher Education Supplement, March 22, 1995.
‘Science in our Universities: What’s Done Where?’
P. Bourke and L. Butler, The Australian Higher Education Supplement, March 8, 1995.
1994
‘Science in Australia: Out for the Count?’
P. Bourke, The Australian Higher Education Supplement, September 14, 1994.
1993
‘A Crisis for Australian Science?’
P. Bourke and L. Butler, Monograph Series No. 1. 1993.
This report was written in response to a Science Watch article documenting the recent decline in the impact of Australian scientific publications. The significance given to Australian research was measured by the frequency of citations in the indices of the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI). A Crisis for Australian Science? provides a detailed time-series analysis of Australia’s share of scientific discovery at the international level across all fields of science.
‘Mapping Scientific Research In Universities: Departments and Fields’
P. Bourke and L. Butler, Occasional Paper No. 1. 1993.
This Occasional Paper demonstrates the multidisciplinary nature of modern scientific research by showing the range of fields in which publications from science departments occur.
‘Australian science: ‘Some Worries Mate’’
P. Bourke and L. Butler, Australian Campus Review, November 18-24, 1993.
‘Debunking Citation Analysis: A Reply’
P. Bourke, Australian Campus Review, July 1-7, 1993.
‘Research: The Achievers’
P. Bourke, Australian Campus Review, May 20-26, 1993.
‘Issues for Scholars’
P. Bourke, in J. Mulvaney and C. Steele (eds) Changes in Scholarly Communication Patterns: Australia and the Electronic Library, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1993.
1992
‘The Institute of Advanced Studies, ANU’
P. Bourke, The Cambridge Review Special Issue on Research Institutes, 113:80-85, June 1992.
‘Gauging the Width’
P. Bourke and B. Martin, The Times Higher Education Supplement, July 14, 1992.
Reprinted in Australian Campus Review Weekly, August 6-12, 1992.
1991
‘The Research of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, 1976-1988: A Bibliometric Profile’
P. Bourke, in Performance Indicators: Report of the Research Group, Volume 2, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1991.
For further information and copies of publications please contact:
Bev Biglia
Research Evaluation and Policy Project
Research School of Social Sciences
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
T: (02) 6125 4849
F: (02) 6125 9767
E: bevb@coombs.anu.edu.au
