A new approach to evaluating research performance using bibliometrics : JST's research impact and influence as compared with an overseas funding agency's

Abstract

This paper examines the research impact and influence of Japan Science Technology Agency (JST) as compared with that an overseas funding agency. Discussions include special considerations, methodology, indicators, and findings of the comparative analysis. In self-evaluating the FY2008 research impact and influence, the citation data of articles from JST Targeted Basic Research Program were compared to that of articles from an overseas funding agency: conditions representing the features or nature of the Program implementation were first established, and articles meeting the requirements were extracted, followed by comparison using two indicators, viz (1) the total number of citations received by articles within the category of certain research topic and (2) the total number of articles cited amongst the world's top 1% per research topic.