Publication counting methods for a national research evaluation exercise
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Highlights：
• We analyze the field rankings for eight variants of counting methods.
• We analyze data on 0.58 million publications by Polish researchers.
• Research evaluation exercises count publications to achieve various goals.
• The choice of publication counting method is a multidimensional task.
• A change of counting method affects the rankings in hard sciences more.
摘要
•We analyze the field rankings for eight variants of counting methods.•We analyze data on 0.58 million publications by Polish researchers.•Research evaluation exercises count publications to achieve various goals.•The choice of publication counting method is a multidimensional task.•A change of counting method affects the rankings in hard sciences more.
论文关键词：Evaluation,Counting method,Whole counting,Fractional counting,Complete counting
论文评审过程：Received 22 December 2018, Revised 31 May 2019, Accepted 4 July 2019, Available online 30 July 2019, Version of Record 30 July 2019.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2019.07.001
