| Código |
18229
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| Ano |
1
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| Semestre |
L0
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| Créditos ECTS |
1
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| Carga Horária |
O (15H)/T(3H)/TP(9H)
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| Área Científica |
Gestão
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Objectivos de Aprendizagem |
This course aims at providing an overview on metascience, the systematic and
empirical study of how science and research is conducted, organized, evaluated, and disseminated.
Participants will develop key skills for understanding how scientific activity operates, functions, and evolves as an individual or collective socioeconomic endeavour.
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Conteúdos programáticos |
Module 1:
Course overview and evaluation. Definitions and terminology. Historical view of the research field of metascience.
Module 2:
Bibliometric databases. Leiden manifesto and San Francisco Declaration.
Module 3:
Authorship and scientific credit. Researcher’s performance: the h index.
Module 4:
Citations and scientific impact. Scientific collaboration and teamwork.
Module 5:
The journal Impact Factor and other alternative journal-metrics.
Module 6:
University rankings: Shanghai ranking and other institutional rankings.
Module 7:
Research productivity: gender and geography bias. Matthew effect in
science.
Module 8:
Evaluation. Tools and resources.
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Metodologias de Ensino e Critérios de Avaliação |
Participants will be expected to prepare an essay and present an article of the field in a journal club.
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Bibliografia principal |
The Science of Science. 2021. Dashun Wang and Albert-László Barabási. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108610834
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| Língua |
Português
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