L’Association pour la mesure des sciences et des techniques (Adest) et l’évaluation de la recherche en France
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Jean-Pierre Courtial, « L’Association pour la mesure des sciences et des techniques (Adest) et l’évaluation de la recherche en France », La Revue pour l’histoire du CNRS, ID : 10.4000/histoire-cnrs.564
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The Association for the Measurement of Sciences and Technology The evaluation of research is a major contemporary problem. Should one speak of “sanction-evaluation”, meaning by that a tool allowing the all-too-famous cuts which so often characterize the management of research through the use of budgetary cuts? Or should one speak of “positioning-evaluation”, a kind of tool to help researchers? The early work in this direction relied on the act of counting scientific publications. This activity of counting scientific publications had passed into the habits of documentalists and researchers in the field of « the science of science ». It was bibliometry. The main idea was that research in a given area was analogus into an exhaustible resource similar to a deposit of metal ore. In the United States, in Philadelphia, the Institute for Scientific Information, working from citations tables to scientific articles, displayed “research fronts” based on “seminal articles”, in virtually direct relation with Kuhn’s theory of scientific paradigms. Bibliometry had become scientometry.