Electronic publishing and bibliometrics
Henk F. Moed
http://www.cwts.nl/hm/
Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
Netherlands
Henk F. Moed is a senior staff member at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), in the Department (Faculty) of Social Sciences at Leiden University, as from 1986. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Science Studies at the University of Leiden in 1989. He has been active in numerous research topics, including: the creation of bibliometric databases from raw data from Thomson Scientific’s Web of Science and Elsevier’s Scopus; analysis of inaccuracies in citation matching; assessment of the potentialities and pitfalls of journal impact factors; the development and application of science indicators for the measurement of research performance in the basic natural- and life sciences; the use of bibliometric indicators as a tool to assess peer review procedures; the development and application of performance indicators in social sciences and humanities; studies of the effects of ‘Open Access’ upon research impact and studies of patterns in ‘usage’ (downloading) behaviour of users of electronic scientific publication warehouses; studies of the effects of the use of bibliometric indicators upon scientific authors and journal publishers.
He published over 50 research articles and letters in the journals Scientometrics, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, Nature, Research Policy, Journal of Information Science, Research Evaluation, Journal of Documentation, Library Trends, R&D Management, Chemical Intelligencer, Current Science, Information Processing & Management, Higher Education, Science and Public Policy and European Journal of Cancer. He is Associate editor of the journal Scientometrics as from 1990 and editorial Board member of the Journal of Informetrics as from 2007. He is a winner of the Derek de Solla Price Award in 1999. He is (co-) editor of the Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research: The Use of Publication and Patent Statistics in Studies of S&T Systems, published by Kluwer/Springer in 2004. He published in 2005 a monograph, Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation (Springer, 346 pp.), which is one of the very few textbooks in the field, providing to a broad scientific/scholarly audience both technical information and a theoretical background, and proposing criteria for proper use of citation-based indicators in research evaluation. He was program chair of the International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) in Madrid, 25-27 June 2007, and editor of the Proceedings of this conference (900 pp.). He was program chair of the International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators in 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2008.