New bibliometric techniques for the evaluation of medical schools

摘要

Bibliometrics have been used in novel ways to assist with the evaluation of two medical schools, one in England and one in Sweden. The first evaluation was intended to allow the relative strengths in 26 subfields of five component campuses to be estimated. Selective filters for each subfield were defined, many of them with the help of the school's research staff, so that relevant papers could be retrieved from a database on the basis of their title keywords and specialist journals.