Gunnar Sivertsen
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Institution: Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education
Country: Norway
Email: gunnar.sivertsen@nifu.no
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Institution: Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education
Country: Norway
Email: gunnar.sivertsen@nifu.no
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Gunnar Sivertsen is Research Professor and Head of Bibliometric Research at the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU) in Oslo. His expertise is in studies of scholarly communication and publishing and in the development and use of bibliometric indicators for statistics, evaluation, funding, and science policy. He has a doctoral degree in Scandinavian literature from the University of Oslo.
He also:
• Developed the so-called “Norwegian model” for providing research evaluation and statistics with complete and quality-assured open data on scientific publishing in all fields, including the social sciences and humanities. So far adopted by Denmark, Finland and Norway, partly also by Belgium (Flanders) and Portugal.
• Chaired a working group appointed by the European Science Foundation to look for solutions for comprehensive bibliometric data coverage in the social sciences and humanities; resulted so far in ERIH PLUS