Les Derives de l'Evaluation de la Recherche: du bon usage de la bibliometrie (The Excesses of Research Evaluation: The Proper Use of Bibliometrics)

摘要

Yves Gingras (YG) is a sociologist and, along with Benoit Godin, a pioneer of evaluation and bibliometrics in French-speaking Canada. His works were constantly inspired by the concern for historical depth and the connection between global thinking and practice of decision support in research. He is now the scientific director of OST-Montreal, which he contributed in launching-a team recognized for the quality, and often the originality-of its research. Adapted from conferences presentations, the short essay he gives here belongs to the critical literature on evaluation, a necessary counterpoint to the chaotic flourishing of naive transposition of managerial models to the world of research. The body of the book is comprised of four chapters in two parts: bibliometrics (origins, bibliometrics, and science dynamics) and evaluation (context of indicators, limits, and recommendations). For convenience, I shall follow the organization of the chapters.