Bibliometrics has a problem. In fact, the field — which tracks scholarly impact in everything from journal papers to citations, data sets and tweets — has a lot of problems. Its indicators need better ...

Bibliometrics is a set of methods to quantitatively analyze scientific and technological literature. Citation analysis and content analysis are commonly used bibliometric methods. While bibliometric ...

Data are increasingly used to govern science. Research evaluations that were once bespoke and performed by peers are now routine and reliant on metrics 1. The problem is that evaluation is now led by ...

In September 2010, Jason Priem, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, was interested in promoting the value of a set of ...

Do you feel a bit late out of the gate when it comes to bibliometrics? You’re probably not alone. Bibliometrics are the quantitative ways that scholarly books, journals, and other publications can be ...

IEEE recognizes the increasing importance of bibliometric indicators as independent measures of quality or impact of any scientific publication and therefore explicitly and firmly condemns any ...

Citation analysis (also referred as citation tracking) is “the study of the relationship between and among the authors of texts, mainly for the purpose of identifying relevance and influence ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper investigates the fitness-for-purpose and soundness of bibliometric parameters for measuring and elucidating the research ...

Metrics are quantitative measures designed to help people evaluate research outputs. There are many types of metric available, but this guide focuses on those designed to help track the attention ...

There are many different metrics available, each using different calculations and data to assess different aspects of research publication. Some (like the Scimago Journal Rank or Impact Factor) are ...