Quality assessment of library and information science school faculties

Autor:	William Brace
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	Higher education business.industry Quality assessment media_common.quotation_subject Library science Library and Information Sciences Education Perceived quality Index (publishing) Quality (business) business Citation Psychology Productivity Information Systems media_common
Zdroj:	Education for Information. 10:115-123
ISSN:	1875-8649 0167-8329
DOI:	10.3233/efi-1992-10204
Popis:	Citations are examined as an index of the quality of library and information science school faculties. Using the citations of the faculties at those schools appearing on White's 1986 list of schools perceived to be "best," a comparison is made between total citation count per school and total citation count per school normalized by total numbers of faculty. Citations of the faculties of ten randomly select­ ed library and information science schools are examined in the same manner. The author's own school is included for comparison. The data for all the schools examined tend to show that measuring productivi­ ty by citation does not correlate with perceived quality. For each school there tends to be one or two in­ dividuals who are the major producer of articles which in turn draw the largest number of citations. Ques­ tions are raised about productivity as a measure of quality and about the need for schools to be located within research institutions.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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