Fact check: Using mainly English database to evaluate rejected Japanese scholars was wrong October 10, 2020 (Mainichi Japan) Japanese version Waseda University professor Masanori Okada speaks at a hearing with opposition party members over Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's refusal to appoint six recommended members to the Science Council of Japan, at the Diet on Oct. 2, 2020. The screen shows Ryuichi Ozawa of the Jikei University School of Medicine, and Takaaki Matsumiya of Ritsumeikan University, who were both recommended as new members of the Science Council of Japan but not appointed. (Mainichi Kan Takeuchi) After controversy erupted over Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's decision not to appoint six of 105 recommended members to the Science Council of Japan
ブランドコピーN級品 a post circulating on Twitter stated that "when the six were looked up using the scientific evaluation tool Scopus, they all had low values and there is no way they can be regarded as scholars internationally." A similar claim was featured on an internet program, spreading further. But Scopus, an abstract and citation database, mainly covers literature in English and it includes hardly any Japanese-language papers. It was therefore inappropriate to try to evaluate Japanese humanities and sociology researchers with it. In short, the claims are mistaken. The problem post was retweeted over 5,000 times after being posted by an anonymous account on Oct. 5, but has since been deleted. The tweet asserted that that examination of the six scholars using Scopus had revealed a "stunning fact," namely that only researcher "KY" was found on the database and the person only had an "h-index of 2, while the others stood at zero." The tweet added that this showed the six could not be called scholars by international standards, and added, "Perhaps the prime minister ruled these people out after looking this up. They are not scientists, and from the outset they can't be called international scholars." On the internet program "Toranomon News," aired on Oct. 7, economic analyst Tsukasa Jonen made comments practically identical to the Twitter post, and that video was viewed over 600,000 times. A tweet referencing the video was retweeted over 1,800 times. So, what exactly is Scopus? The official website at https://www.elsevier.com/en-in/solutions/scopus states: "Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals
ブランド服コピー books and conference proceedings." The description says Scopus, operated by Netherlands-based publisher Elsevier, delivers "a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities." Another explanation says its database "contains 55+ million items indexed from 21,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers worldwide." Takaaki Kajita
スーパーコピー時計 president of the Science Council of Japan, explains a request addressed to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga over his decision not to appoint six members to the council in spite of its recommendation. (Mainichi/Tomohiro Ikeda) In its original capacity, Scopus is a tool to search for published titles, but it is also used for evaluation analysis. The database's h-index indicates the number of citations a scholar's articles have, with an index of 10
ブランドコピー服 for example, indicating that a scholar has 10 papers that have been cited at least 10 times. The Mainichi Shimbun created an account and conducted a search. The "KY" in the tweet likely referred to University of Tokyo professor Yoko Kato, the only one of the rejected scholars with those initials. A search for her and her affiliation turned up an h-index of 2. Papers from the other five scholars did not appear. Was it appropriate to evaluate the scholars using Scopus? Makoto Goto, an associate professor at the National Museum of Japanese History who authored a paper on measured evaluation of research in the humanities and sociology, commented, "It's a mistake to evaluate a humanities and sociology researcher from Japan using Scopus alone. "Elsevier publishes English-language magazines and books, and as a rule
偽物ブランド its database gathers papers in English. When it comes to researchers in the natural sciences, their research themes are common throughout the world, so in many cases, the papers are written in English, and most papers at the pinnacle of the field are in English. In the humanities and social sciences, however, Japanese history, Japanese literature, Japanese law and other such topics rely on the Japanese language, and a large portion of the research themes are domestically oriented. It is therefore common to write the papers in Japanese. In other developed countries, too, it is the norm to write papers in the social sciences in their own languages. "To sum it up, Scopus contains hardly any papers in Japanese, so there's absolutely no meaning in consulting the index (for these Japanese scholars). You can't do statistical work on what isn't there." The index has been misused in the past by those trying to do research evaluations without fully understanding the meaning of the measurement data. This misuse became a problem internationally, with claims of arbitrariness in the index used for university rankings. As a result, the British science journal Nature published guidelines in 2015 titled "The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics" cautioning against evaluating individuals or institutions based on a single index. The manifesto contains 10 guidelines, such as, "Account for variation by field in publication and citation practices." "The use of Scopus in this case goes against this rule," Goto says. "I got the impression that someone is going out of their way to use the tool to push their own claims. I fear that if such misuse spreads, then it could affect other researchers." (Japanese original by Hiromi Makino, Integrated Digital News Center) Font Size SML Print Go to The Mainichi Home Page Related Articles Editorial: PM should retract Japan science council decision if he can give no reason for it Uproar as Fuji TV airs false comment over former Japan science council members' pension
