International Survey of Research University Faculty: Use of Bibliometric Ratings, Identifiers & Indicators: Use of Bibliometric Ratings, Identifiers and Indicators

This study presents data from 325 faculty of major universities in the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Australia about how they view bibliometric indicators such as the h-index, how trustworthy they are believed to be and how often they are checked or calculated. The study presents data on the use of particular tools and indicators, giving specific data for all of the following: Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, ORCID ID, Thomsen-Reuters Research ID, Scimago, bepress, SciVal, JSTORE, International, SciFinder, arXiv and CrossRef, among others. Data in the report is broken out by tenure status, gender, age, semester teaching load, academic field, academic title, and political views of the survey participant, as well as by the country or origin, public/private status and world ranking of the universities of the survey participants.