Terje Tüür-Fröhlich
The Non-Trivial Effects of Trivial Errors on Scientific Evaluation
Block: Informationswissenschaft
Location: Hörsaal A1
Time: Friday, 14.9.2012, 09:30-10:00
Abstract
In my paper, the following topics will be discussed:
- trivial errors (such as misspellings of author names, journal titles, institutions, wrong document type classifications) in data banks and search engines and their high relevance in the evaluation era,
- citation analysis as an important quantitative evaluation tool,
- endogenous bias-induced errors and exogenous trivial errors in data banks and their non-trivial effects in quantitative evaluation,
- errors & biases in »quick and dirty« evaluations,
- problems of (authors, institutions) name & publication title disambiguation.
To illustrate, I will present a case study of the mutants of the surname of the famous French sociologist pierre bourdieu in various databanks und search engines and their potential effects for visibility and impact measurement.
Short biography of Terje Tüür-Fröhlich
2-7/2012 Universitätsassistentin (Karenzvertretung), 2007 – 2011 Forschungsstipendiatin am Institut für Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (JKU), seit 2011 Universitätslektorin ebendort.
