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Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation

Uses and Abuses

By: Yves Gingras

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Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation

Uses and Abuses

By: Yves Gingras

Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation and university rankings. The research evaluation market is booming. “Ranking,” “metrics,” “h-index,” and “impact factors” are reigning buzzwords. Government and research administrators want to evaluate everything—teachers, professors, training programs, universities—using quantitative indicators. Among the tools used to measure “research excellence,” bibliometrics—aggregate data on publications and citations—has become dominant. Bibliometrics is hailed as an “objective” measure of research quality, a quantitative measure more useful than “subjective” and intuitive evaluation methods such as peer review that have been used since scientific papers were first published in the seventeenth century. In this book, Yves Gingras offers a spirited argument against an unquestioning reliance on bibliometrics as an indicator of research quality. Gingras shows that bibliometric rankings have no real scientific validity, rarely measuring what they pretend to. Although the study of publication and citation patterns, at the proper scales, can yield insights on the global dynamics of science over time, ill-defined quantitative indicators often generate perverse and unintended effects on the direction of research. Moreover, abuse of bibliometrics occurs when data is manipulated to boost rankings. Gingras looks at the politics of evaluation and argues that using numbers can be a way to control scientists and diminish their autonomy in the evaluation process. Proposing precise criteria for establishing the validity of indicators at a given scale of analysis, Gingras questions why universities are so eager to let invalid indicators influence their research strategy.

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MIT Press

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0262337665

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Science and Religion

An Impossible Dialogue

By: Yves Gingras

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Science and Religion

An Impossible Dialogue

By: Yves Gingras

Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relations between science and religion now returned to the public domain and what is at stake in this debate? To answer these questions, historian and sociologist of science Yves Gingras retraces the long history of the troubled relationship between science and religion, from the condemnation of Galileo for heresy in 1633 until his rehabilitation by John Paul II in 1992. He reconstructs the process of the gradual separation of science from theology and religion, showing how God and natural theology became marginalized in the scientific field in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In contrast to the dominant trend among historians of science, Gingras argues that science and religion are social institutions that give rise to incompatible ways of knowing, rooted in different methodologies and forms of knowledge, and that there never was, and cannot be, a genuine dialogue between them. Wide-ranging and authoritative, this new book on one of the fundamental questions of Western thought will be of great interest to students and scholars of the history of science and of religion as well as to general readers who are intrigued by the new and much-publicized conversations about the alleged links between science and religion.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509518940

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9781509518944

Origines de la Recherche Scientifique Au Canada

By: Yves Gingras

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Origines de la Recherche Scientifique Au Canada

By: Yves Gingras

Annotation Gingras (history, U. of Quebec) describes the evolution of teaching into scientific research in Canada during the late 19th century, the demands of World War I, the national establishment in place by 1930, and the subsequent issues within the research community. Translated from the French. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773508236

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9780773508231

Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology

Proceedings of the Tidalites 2012 Conference

By: Bernadette Tessier,Jean-Yves Reynaud

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Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology

Proceedings of the Tidalites 2012 Conference

By: Bernadette Tessier,Jean-Yves Reynaud

Tidal deposits have been a specific research topic for about 40 years, and whilst this has resulted in a proliferation of papers in scientific journals, there have only been a few book-length syntheses. Over the years, tidal sedimentology has been reinforced by fluid mechanics and numerical modelling but has remained rooted in facies and stratigraphic studies. Recent developments in tidal sedimentology lean toward a more quantitative assessment of the imprint of tides in the facies record of intertidal and shallow subtidal areas. They highlight the increasing relevance of tidal deposits studies, from high resolution subsurface reservoir geology to climate change and sea-level rise. This volume gathers 17 contributions to the Tidalites 2012 congress held in Caen, France. It reflects current advances in the sedimentology and stratigraphy of tidal deposits, in both ancient and modern environments. It shows the current diversity of this field of research, through a wide spectrum of methods including remote sensing, in-situ hydrodynamical measurements, and ichnology, in addition to classic field studies and petrography.

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360

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119218381

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The Trace Factory

By: Yves Jeanneret

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The Trace Factory

By: Yves Jeanneret

The collection and treatment of traces which reveal who we are and what we do naturally piques our interest when it pertains to others, and anxiety when it concerns ourselves. Do we truly know what a trace is? And if knowledge is power, how vulnerable are we in the public sphere? The demonstrability of a trace hides the complexity of the process that allows it to be produced, interpreted and used. This book proposes a reasoned approach to the analysis of the trace as an object and as a sign. By following such an approach, the reader will understand how the media participates in the creation and deployment of traces, and the issues raised by what can be traced on social media. The Trace Factory offers a historical perspective, returning to the founding theories of collecting and producing traces linked to knowledge and power in society. Observing technology and information through the prism of these theories, a large number of devices and their uses are evaluated. This book offers itself as a tool of thought and work for researchers, professionals and social actors of all kinds who are confronted with the existence, treatment and interpretation of the traces of society and culture.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1786304201

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Advances in Mycorrhizal Science and Technology

By: Damase Khasa,Yves Piché,Andrew P. Coughlan

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Advances in Mycorrhizal Science and Technology

By: Damase Khasa,Yves Piché,Andrew P. Coughlan

Mycorrhizal symbioses are widespread and fundamental components of terrestrial ecosystems and have shaped plant evolution. Features such topics as plant/fungal communication, the interaction of mycorrhizal fungi with other soil microorganisms, and the use of mycorrhizal fungi in plant-production systems.

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NRC Research Press

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0660198835

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9780660198835

Contemporary Theories and Practice in Education

By: Yves Bertrand

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Contemporary Theories and Practice in Education

By: Yves Bertrand

Presents a synthesis of some 30 theoretical approaches to education including spiritualistic, personalist, psychocognitive, technological, social cognitive, social, and academic theories. This edition, a translation of the 1993 French language edition published by Agence d'ARC, Quebec, is published by Magna Publications, Inc., 2718 Dryden Drive, Madison, WI 53704-3086. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Atwood Publications

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1891859072

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Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation

Uses and Abuses

By: Yves Gingras

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Physics and the Rise of Scientific Research in Canada

By: Yves Gingras

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Physics and the Rise of Scientific Research in Canada

By: Yves Gingras

The teaching of engineering and a change in liberal arts curricula, both stimulated by industrial growth, encouraged the creation of specialized courses in the sciences. By the 1890s, Gingras argues, trained researchers had begun to appear in Canadian universities. The technological demands of the First World War and the founding, in 1916, of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) accelerated the growth of scientific research. The Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada could no longer publish everything submitted to it because of the disproportionately large number of research papers from the fields of science. In response, the NRC created the Canadian Journal of Research, a journal specifically dedicated to the publication of scientific research. By 1930, a stable, national system of scientific research was in place in Canada. Following the dramatic increase in the national importance of their disciplines, scientists faced the problem of social identity. Gingras demonstrates that in the case of physics this took the form of a conflict between those who promoted a professional orientation, necessary to compete successfully with engineers in the labour market, and those, mainly in the universities, who were concerned with problems of the discipline such as publication, internal management, and awards. Physics and the Rise of Scientific Research in Canada is the first book to provide a general analysis of the origins of scientific research in Canadian universities. Gingras proposes a sociological model of the formation of scientific disciplines, distinguishing the profession from the discipline, two notions often confused by historians and sociologists of science.

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0773562818

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Book's by Yves Gingras

Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation

Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation

Science and Religion

Science and Religion

Origines de la Recherche Scientifique Au Canada

Origines de la Recherche Scientifique Au Canada

Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology

Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology

The Trace Factory

The Trace Factory

Advances in Mycorrhizal Science and Technology

Advances in Mycorrhizal Science and Technology

Contemporary Theories and Practice in Education

Contemporary Theories and Practice in Education

Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation

Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation

Physics and the Rise of Scientific Research in Canada

Physics and the Rise of Scientific Research in Canada

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