NEW BIBLIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES FOR THE EVALUATION OF MEDICAL-SCHOOLS

Bibliometrics have been used in novel ways to assist with the evaluati on of two medical schools, one in England and one in Sweden. The first evaluation was intended to allow the relative strengths in 26 subfiel ds of five component campuses to be estimated. Selective filters for e ach subfield were defined, many of them with the help of the school's research staff, so that relevant papers could be retrieved from a data base on the basis of their title keywords and specialist journals. The campus outputs were then analysed by the research level of the journa ls (clinical/basic) and their influence. In the second evaluation, nin e different indicators of research output were produced so that the sc hool could be compared with four others in Scandinavia. The indicators included measures of output, co-authorship, journal esteem and citati ons by papers and by patents.