From the Editor - International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives - Volume 10, Number 1, 2011

Abstract

In recent years, bibliometrics has been used to measure the utility of publications by means of systematically counting the amount of times a publication has been cited. This could not have been carried out without the use and accessibility of information electronically on the Internet. The intent of bibliometrics is to legitimise, justify, and acknowledge 'quality' information coming from credible sources, but it has also introduced the study of scholarly research performance, which has resulted in some rather unfortunate consequences. Among other things, it has been found that research performance and impact cannot be measured by the quantity of publications or by a ranking of impact factors relating to journals.