Abstract:The prevailing role of counting citations over the added scientific value evaluating distorts the scientific society. As result, the scientific work becomes a kind of business, for instance, to obtain as more citations as possible. It is important to counterbalance the role of coun ting citations by using additional qualitative criteria. The aim of this survey is to discuss an approach based on measure of “usefulness of scientific contribution” called “usc-index” and published in Markov et al, 2013. It is grounded on theory of Knowledge Market. In accordance with this, we remember main elements of this theory. After that we recall some information about Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informetrics and Webometrics as well as some critical analyses of journals’ metrics and quantity measures. Finally, we outline the approach for evaluation usefulness of the scientific contributions.

Keywords: Information Market, Knowledge Market, Usefulness of the Scientific Contributions

ACM Classification Keywords: A.1 Introductory and Survey

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USEFULNESS OF SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS

Krassimir Markov, KrassimiraIvanova?, Vitalii Velychko

http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol20/ijita20-01-p01.pdf