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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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Title RQF publication quality measures: methodoligical issues
Author(s) Lamp, John
Milton, Simon K.
Dawson, Linda
Fisher, Julie
Conference name Australasian Conference on Information Systems (18th: 2007: Toowoomba, Qld.)
Conference location Toowoomba, Qld.
Conference dates 5-7 December 2007
Title of proceedings ACIS 2007: proceedings of the 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems
Editor(s) Toleman, Mark
Cater-Steel, Aileen
Roberts, David
Publication date 2007
Conference series Australasian Conference on Information Systems
Start page 478
End page 486
Publisher University of Southern Queensland
Place of publication Toowoomba, Qld
Keyword(s) research management
research evaluation
publication analysis
RQF
Thomson-ISI
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.
ISBN 9780909756963
0909756961
Language eng
Field of Research 080708 Records and Information Management (excl Business Records and Information Management)
HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice ©2007, ACIS
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30008019

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