Measuring research productivity at individual, discipline and institutional levels

PROFESSOR GIOVANNI ABRAMO

Technology Research Director

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

The webinar will demonstrate how scientometrics can be applied to measure and compare research performance of individuals and research organizations, and how it can be applied to assess strengths and weaknesses at the field level of organizations.

In this hour long webinar Professor Giovanni Abramo of the Italian Research Council (CNR) will illustrate why the most popular research performance indicators are not valid, and the distortions in rankings that often result.

We will be covering the following topics:

• How to measure and compare individual research performance
• Reviewing research performance at aggregate level
• An overview of bibliometric indicators
• Importance of researchers’ Field Classification
• The validity of the most popular research indicators
• And much more…