[D-G] Bibliometrics advice needed.

[Super Dragon]

Dear list,
changing tact just very slightly, myself and a scientific journals editor have gotten together to write a book about bibliometrics, This was inspired for me partly by the recent Middlesex debacle and partly by a long standing sense of indignation (ever since the first RAE) about having writing weighed by the pound. Indeed, I left academia in disgust in the late nineties with the view that who would want to play in a band with that kind of drummer...

Sadly, I have learned there is little escape as these very same performance metrics continue to permeate everything I do and I suspect that is the case for any scholar (new or establsihed) with an interest in D and G.  This seems to me a travesty with limited options for defence. Either ignore it totally and meditate under a tree, which I managed to do (metaphorically) for a number of years or take it on. I am in the mode of taking on at the moment and wondered if anyone else had thoughts to share? attempts to measure reasearch quality are not going to go away but they could be less naive about the question of defining quality. In particular, we are interested in approaches to measurement that build in an untimely (indeed immeasurable)  or futue active dimension to the metrics they advocate. At presnt, the 'best' metrics are ones which appeal to anthroplogogy to propose kinship networks ( this is a reaction to the two year window arbitraily imposed to talk about an articles citational life which undepins the notorious H index). I have not found anything yet that does anything more than challenege the measurement criteria for bibliometrics 

Sorry if this all sounds a bit technical. Any advice warmly welcomed. 

Cheers Ruth 
journals o valid citation indices forms of measurement that acknowledge the immeasurable as their contitive (unground) 

Sloughing one's skin.-The snake that cannot slough its skin perishes. Likewise spirits which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirits (Nietzsche: Daybreak:V:573)   


--- superdragon at addlebrain.com wrote:

From: "Super Dragon" <superdragon at addlebrain.com>
To: <deleuze-guattari at lists.driftline.org>
Subject: Re: [D-G] Concepts seen as functions (malgosia askanas)
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 09:02:40 -0700

I was trying to express the way a concept passes only through its own components in the plane of immanence. Swimming seemed a useful image for this 

Sloughing one's skin.-The snake that cannot slough its skin perishes. Likewise spirits which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirits (Nietzsche: Daybreak:V:573)   


--- hwenk at web.de wrote:

From: "Harald Wenk" <hwenk at web.de>
To: <deleuze-guattari at lists.driftline.org>
Subject: Re: [D-G] Concepts seen as functions (malgosia askanas)
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:46:35 -0400

Dear group,

The picture of the head ove water in a struggling
of swimming si raelly good,
but it ahs indded to eb expalined a lot.

You refer to the eternel intellectual part of the human mind, arent you?

Reardimng universal
notuions stay to
be:
ante re, in re, post re,
in spite they are THEMSELVES events or singularities.

(Ther are "copies" or "tokons", repetituions ).

"old fashioned" as I am,
I like to "translate" the old to the new
expresssions as undertandable a possible.
Especially,as there are lots and lots of notions in philolsophy,
not always good ones.

Buti like metaphers, symboles and images, narratives too.


greetings

Harald


At 5:04 PM -0700 7/29/11, Super Dragon wrote:
>hello, as i undersyand it language is not prior to the concept of the concept, language is merely the topslice of the unconcious and the non symbolizable is simultaneous with this in wip dg talk about concepts as laying out a plane over the nonconceptual in thinking in a way whic passes through its own components. i struggled with this for a long time until i was able to think of it a bit like swimming or treading water in so far as the actualisation is about movements which sustain a space of thought that suspends the thought of drowning (temporarily)
>
>hope that makes sense
>ruth
>nb maybe the letter a is better thought of as (a) indefinite article?
Sloughing one's skin.-The snake that cannot slough its skin perishes. Likewise spirits which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirits (Nietzsche: Daybreak:V:573)  
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