Bibliometric measures for research groups?

There are bibliometric measures for journals (most notoriously, impact factor, but also Eigenfactor) and bibliometric measures for individuals (such as h-index), but does anyone know of bibliometric measures aimed at group impact, as for a lab or research center or department? Have the alt-metrics folks come up with any?

dsalo

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Joe: The closest that I can think of is that I remember someone had a poster at ASIS&T a few years back tracking faculty advisors & advisees ... I *think* it was A Preliminary Social Network Analysis of MPACT, and looking over the full text, the only bibliographic stuff they reference is dissertations ... but one of their references is a 2005 Persson & Åström paper on most cited universities.

Answer by cpikas

People have tried using h-index for groups, but somewhat unsuccessfully IMO. Here's an example, I'll try to edit this later with more: van Raan, A. (2006). Comparison of the hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment for 147 chemistry research groups. Scientometrics, 67(3), 491. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-006-0066-4

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Simon Spero: I'm inclined to agree; H doesn't seem to have a natural fit for multiple authors; what do you count as self-citation, how do you account for changed composition over time; is the metric dominated by the top articles of just a few group members, etc.
Joe: odd... the doi wont resolve, but I found it referenced in multiple places, but it wont resolve ... http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-006-0066-4. vs. http://www.akademiai.com/content/jx04n72413rk03u5/. or arXiv

Answer by Simon Spero

Scientometrics is usually the first place to check; many of their articles are open-access.\ This article may be a good seed for reference following:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/q167303883771815/

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Answer by Simon Spero

A answer more specific to the dsalo would be to ask Dietmar Wolfram at UWM; he's been an active researcher in this field for a long time, and may be able to recommend experts at YPOW.

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Answer by aarontay

Have a look at the following sites which have very detailed methodology for ranking groups and institutions.

http://kib.ki.se/sites/kib.ki.se/files/Bibliometric_indicators_definitions_1.0.pdf

http://kib.ki.se/sites/kib.ki.se/files/bibliometric_handbook_karolinska_institutet_v_1.05.pdf

http://www.leidenranking.com/methodology.aspx

I am not an expert but my casual reading in the past 2 years in this area seem to indicate among other groups CWTS, Leiden University has done a lot of research on this area.