Developing the New Qualitative Measurement Indicator and its Application in Scientific Papers研究.pdf

China．USABusinessReview．ISSN 1537-1514 March2013，Vo1．12，No．3，322—330 酋 LI舞it,4INeat DevelopingtheNewQualitativeMeasurementIndicatorandits ApplicationinScientificPapers Yong—JeongKim，DongHoonOh KoreaInstituteofSTEvaluationandPlanning(KISTEP)，Seoul，Korea Thisarticleintroducesanew qualitativemeasurementindicator，theRelativelyRank-normalized ImpactFactor f尺 n thatcanovercomedrawbacksoftheexistingqualitativeindicators(JournalIF，normalizedIF)．The qualities0fSCIpapersinG7andBRICsareinvestigatedusingthisindicator．TheresultoftheR， analysisof m0secountriesshowsthattheUSproducesnotonlythelargestquantitybutalsothebestqualityofSCIpapers．The USistheresearchleaderinboth b“asicscience’’and “bio·science”．Th eUK alsoshowshighqualiyt inalmostall areas，evensuperiortotheUSinsomeresearchareassuchaspharmacologyandtoxicology，molecularbiologyand genetics．etc．．OverallthequalitativestatusofscientificpapersinallBRIC countriesarenotyetuptopar，although theyhayeachievedaquantitativeexpansionofpublications．Howeverin “engineering”Chinaisthesecondonlyto theUSinioumalquality． 脚 w。rdsscientiffcpaper，qualitativemeasurementindicat。r，RelativelyRank-normalizedImpactFactor(R2nlF)， JournalImpactFactor，G7，BRIC IntrOducti0n The obiective measurementofresearch performance isan important topic in the evaluation and establishmentofSTpolicies．Thequalityofscientificpapersisingeneralthemostfundamentalmeansof measuringresearchperfomr ance．However．measuringresearchperformanceisnotaseasya itaPPeas，andits improperusecanbequitemisleading． Certain1v．theactualnumberofcitationswouldprovideabetterperformanceindicator．However，thisis notordinarilyposs