Forcing research to fit the mould of high-impact journals weakens it. Hiring decisions should be based on merit, not impact factor, says Reinhard Werner. How do we recognize a good scientist? There is ...

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 ...

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 ...

John P. A. Ioannidis and colleagues asked the most highly cited biomedical scientists to score their top-ten papers in six ways. You have full access to this article via your institution. We got some ...

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 ...

I recently discussed over coffee with my colleague Riel Tanyag publication metrics and how to measure the impact of knowledge products, a topic only librarians, publishers, web professionals, and ...

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 ...