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Élisabeth de Turckheim

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arXiv2025

Impact of a reclassification of Web of Science articles on bibliometric indicators

This work aims at evaluating a reclassification of Web of Science articles implemented at OST. Articles from the 254 scientific categories of the Web of Science were reclassified at article level in 242 modified categories and 11 disciplines using the method of S. Milojević (2020). The reclassification is based on paper references categories and it no longer assigns papers to multiple or to multidisciplinary categories. It improves the accuracy and the modularity of the WoS classification. As there are important changes in document assignment at the lowest level, usual indicators such as disciplinary profiles or field normalized indicators are significantly modified. This study examines some of these modifications to provide explanations for the recipients of OST reports. Changes in specialization indexes reveal specific journal choices by scientists. In a sample of 25 countries, Brazil and China offer examples of facilities or constraints for selecting journals to publish certain research works.

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arXiv2017

Improving fitness: Mapping research priorities against societal needs on obesity

Science policy is increasingly shifting towards an emphasis in societal problems or grand challenges. As a result, new evaluative tools are needed to help assess not only the knowledge production side of research programmes or organisations, but also the articulation of research agendas with societal needs. In this paper, we present an exploratory investigation of science supply and societal needs on the grand challenge of obesity -an emerging health problem with enormous social costs. We illustrate a potential approach that uses topic modelling to explore: (a) how scientific publications can be used to describe existing priorities in science production; (b) how records of questions posed in the European parliament can be used as an instance of mapping discourse of social needs; (c) how the comparison between the two may show (mis)alignments between societal concerns and scientific outputs. While this is a technical exercise, we propose that this type of mapping methods can be useful for informing strategic planning and evaluation in funding agencies.

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