Rüdiger Mutz
Biographic Data
| ID | 2749103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rüdiger Mutz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rüdiger |
| FAMILY NAME | Mutz |
| SIGNATURE | MUTZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3345-6090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Do universities behave like tankers in stormy seas? A multilevel latent state-trait model of universities’ competitiveness in research
How to use assignments of United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) to scientific papers in research evaluation? The proposal of a gold standard combining assignments from different data pro…
To identify research that addresses the biggest problems facing the world today, researchers have used the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a blueprint for measuring the societal impact of research. Although one might assume that the mapping of papers to the SDGs has a high degree of uniformity (based more or less on the same data), empirical results show that this is not the case: different mapping approaches lead to d…
Reliable individual differences in researcher performance capacity estimates
Are latent variables of researcher performance capacity merely elaborate proxies of productivity? To investigate this research question, we propose extensions of recently used item-response theory models for the estimation of researcher performance capacity. We argue that productivity should be considered as a potential explanatory variable of reliable individual differences between researchers. Thus, we extend the Conway-Maxwell Poisson counts m…
Scientific publishing without gatekeeping
At the end of January 2023, eLife introduced a new publishing model (alongside the old-traditional-publishing model): all manuscripts submitted as preprints are peer-reviewed and published if they are deemed worthy of review by the editorial team (“editorial triage”). The model abandons the gatekeeping function and retains the previous “consultative approach to peer review”. Even under the changed conditions, the question of the quality of judgem…
How to assess the impact of fellowships on academic careers? Latent transition analyses for funding programmes of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Although fellowship programmes continue to be seen as an effective means of advancing young researchers' academic careers, the impact of fellowship programmes on fellows' career development is still unclear. The central question of this article concerns the evaluation of fellowship programmes: What methodological challenges does the evaluation of fellowship programmes pose with regard to career development, and how these can be addressed in the c…
Why summing up bibliometric indicators does not justify a composite indicator
Various bibliometric indicators have been used to assess the researchers’ impact, but composites of such indicators, namely a metric that combines various individual indicators to describe a complex construct, have received a strong critique thus far. We employ concepts from psychometrics to revisit a composite proposed by Ioannidis et al. (2020) that aimed to represent researcher impact. Based on a selected sample of highly cited researchers, ou…
Diversity and interdisciplinarity
Diversity is a central concept not only in ecology, but also in the social sciences and in bibliometrics. The discussion about an adequate measure of diversity is strongly driven by the work of Rao (Sankhyā Indian J Stat Series A 44:1-22, 1982) and Stirling (J R Soc Interface 4:707-719, 2007). It is to the credit of Leydesdorff (Scientometr 116:2113-2121, 2018) to have proposed a decisive improvement with regard to an inconsistency in the Rao-Ste…
Growth rates of modern science
Growth of science is a prevalent issue in science of science studies. In recent years, two new bibliographic databases have been introduced, which can be used to study growth processes in science from centuries back: Dimensions from Digital Science and Microsoft Academic. In this study, we used publication data from these new databases and added publication data from two established databases (Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics and Scopus fr…
Mapping the impact of papers on various status groups in excellencemapping.net
In over five years, Bornmann, Stefaner, de Moya Anegon, and Mutz (2014b) and Bornmann, Stefaner, de Moya Anegón, and Mutz (2014c, 2015) have published several releases of the www.excellencemapping.net tool revealing (clusters of) excellent institutions worldwide based on citation data. With the new release, a completely revised tool has been published. It is not only based on citation data (bibliometrics), but also Mendeley data (altmetrics). Thu…
Growth rates of modern science
Many studies (in information science) have looked at the growth of science. In this study, we reexamine the question of the growth of science. To do this we (a) use current data up to publication year 2012 and (b) analyze the data across all disciplines and also separately for the natural sciences and for the medical and health sciences. Furthermore, the data were analyzed with an advanced statistical technique—segmented regression analysis—which…
University and student segmentation
Background. It is often claimed that psychology students' attitudes towards research methods and statistics affect course enrolment, persistence, achievement, and course climate. However, the inter-institutional variability has been widely neglected in the research on students' attitudes towards research methods and statistics, but it is important for didactic purposes (heterogeneity of the student population).Aims. The paper presents a scale bas…
Citation counts for research evaluation
With the ready accessibility of bibliometric data and the availability of ready-to-use tools for generating bibliometric indicators for evaluation purposes, there is the danger of inappropriate use. Here we present standards of good practice for analyzing bibliometric data and presenting and interpreting the results. Comparisons drawn between research groups as to research performance are valid only if (1) the scientific impact of the research gr…
Citation counts for research evaluation
With the ready accessibility of bibliometric data and the availability of ready-to-use tools for generating bibliometric indicators for evaluation purposes, there is the danger of inappropriate use. Here we present standards of good practice for analyzing bibliometric data and presenting and interpreting the results. Comparisons drawn between research groups as to research performance are valid only if (1) the scientific impact of the research gr…
University and student segmentation
Background. It is often claimed that psychology students' attitudes towards research methods and statistics affect course enrolment, persistence, achievement, and course climate. However, the inter-institutional variability has been widely neglected in the research on students' attitudes towards research methods and statistics, but it is important for didactic purposes (heterogeneity of the student population).Aims. The paper presents a scale bas…
Citation counts for research evaluation
With the ready accessibility of bibliometric data and the availability of ready-to-use tools for generating bibliometric indicators for evaluation purposes, there is the danger of inappropriate use. Here we present standards of good practice for analyzing bibliometric data and presenting and interpreting the results. Comparisons drawn between research groups as to research performance are valid only if (1) the scientific impact of the research gr…
University and student segmentation
Background. It is often claimed that psychology students' attitudes towards research methods and statistics affect course enrolment, persistence, achievement, and course climate. However, the inter-institutional variability has been widely neglected in the research on students' attitudes towards research methods and statistics, but it is important for didactic purposes (heterogeneity of the student population).Aims. The paper presents a scale bas…
Growth rates of modern science
Many studies (in information science) have looked at the growth of science. In this study, we reexamine the question of the growth of science. To do this we (a) use current data up to publication year 2012 and (b) analyze the data across all disciplines and also separately for the natural sciences and for the medical and health sciences. Furthermore, the data were analyzed with an advanced statistical technique—segmented regression analysis—which…
Growth rates of modern science
Growth of science is a prevalent issue in science of science studies. In recent years, two new bibliographic databases have been introduced, which can be used to study growth processes in science from centuries back: Dimensions from Digital Science and Microsoft Academic. In this study, we used publication data from these new databases and added publication data from two established databases (Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics and Scopus fr…
Mapping the impact of papers on various status groups in excellencemapping.net
In over five years, Bornmann, Stefaner, de Moya Anegon, and Mutz (2014b) and Bornmann, Stefaner, de Moya Anegón, and Mutz (2014c, 2015) have published several releases of the www.excellencemapping.net tool revealing (clusters of) excellent institutions worldwide based on citation data. With the new release, a completely revised tool has been published. It is not only based on citation data (bibliometrics), but also Mendeley data (altmetrics). Thu…
Diversity and interdisciplinarity
Diversity is a central concept not only in ecology, but also in the social sciences and in bibliometrics. The discussion about an adequate measure of diversity is strongly driven by the work of Rao (Sankhyā Indian J Stat Series A 44:1-22, 1982) and Stirling (J R Soc Interface 4:707-719, 2007). It is to the credit of Leydesdorff (Scientometr 116:2113-2121, 2018) to have proposed a decisive improvement with regard to an inconsistency in the Rao-Ste…
Why summing up bibliometric indicators does not justify a composite indicator
Various bibliometric indicators have been used to assess the researchers’ impact, but composites of such indicators, namely a metric that combines various individual indicators to describe a complex construct, have received a strong critique thus far. We employ concepts from psychometrics to revisit a composite proposed by Ioannidis et al. (2020) that aimed to represent researcher impact. Based on a selected sample of highly cited researchers, ou…
How to use assignments of United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) to scientific papers in research evaluation? The proposal of a gold standard combining assignments from different data pro…
To identify research that addresses the biggest problems facing the world today, researchers have used the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a blueprint for measuring the societal impact of research. Although one might assume that the mapping of papers to the SDGs has a high degree of uniformity (based more or less on the same data), empirical results show that this is not the case: different mapping approaches lead to d…
Reliable individual differences in researcher performance capacity estimates
Are latent variables of researcher performance capacity merely elaborate proxies of productivity? To investigate this research question, we propose extensions of recently used item-response theory models for the estimation of researcher performance capacity. We argue that productivity should be considered as a potential explanatory variable of reliable individual differences between researchers. Thus, we extend the Conway-Maxwell Poisson counts m…
Scientific publishing without gatekeeping
At the end of January 2023, eLife introduced a new publishing model (alongside the old-traditional-publishing model): all manuscripts submitted as preprints are peer-reviewed and published if they are deemed worthy of review by the editorial team (“editorial triage”). The model abandons the gatekeeping function and retains the previous “consultative approach to peer review”. Even under the changed conditions, the question of the quality of judgem…
How to assess the impact of fellowships on academic careers? Latent transition analyses for funding programmes of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Although fellowship programmes continue to be seen as an effective means of advancing young researchers' academic careers, the impact of fellowship programmes on fellows' career development is still unclear. The central question of this article concerns the evaluation of fellowship programmes: What methodological challenges does the evaluation of fellowship programmes pose with regard to career development, and how these can be addressed in the c…
Do universities behave like tankers in stormy seas? A multilevel latent state-trait model of universities’ competitiveness in research
Computer Science (9 works) · scientometrics and bibliometrics research (8 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Bibliometrics (5 works) · Library science (5 works) · Statistics (5 works) · Data science (4 works) · Economics (4 works)