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JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 562-574Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2013.02.005
Keywords
Evaluative bibliometrics; Practical significance; Highly-cited papers; Average adjusted predictions; Average marginal effects; Adjusted predictions at representative values; Marginal effects at representative values
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Evaluative bibliometrics is concerned with comparing research units by using statistical procedures. According to Williams (2012) an empirical study should be concerned with the substantive and practical significance of the findings as well as the sign and statistical significance of effects. In this study we will explain what adjusted predictions and marginal effects are and how useful they are for institutional evaluative bibliometrics. As an illustration, we will calculate a regression model using publications (and citation data) produced by four universities in German-speaking countries from 1980 to 2010. We will show how these predictions and effects can be estimated and plotted, and how this makes it far easier to get a practical feel for the substantive meaning of results in evaluative bibliometric studies. An added benefit of this approach is that it makes it far easier to explain results obtained via sophisticated statistical techniques to a broader and sometimes non-technical audience. We will focus particularly on Average Adjusted Predictions (AAPs), Average Marginal Effects (AMEs), Adjusted Predictions at Representative Values (APRVs) and Marginal Effects at Representative Values (MERVs). (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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