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Bibliometrics is a set of methods to quantitatively analyze scientific and technological literature.

Bibliometrics is a set of methods to quantitatively analyze scientific and technological literature. In fact, many research fields use bibliometric methods to explore the impact of their field, the impact of a set of researchers, or the impact of a particular paper. Bibliometrics are now used in quantitative research assessment exercises of academic output which is starting to threaten practice based research.

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What are some examples of famous scholars with low h-index?

The h-index is often used to measure a 'quality' of a scholar, and it is also often criticized as a lousy measure, since there is more into quality than just the number of papers and citations. What are some examples of arguably great and famous…
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How does PLOS ONE maintain its impact factor?

The PLOS ONE journal has an impact factor over 3. The specialist journals in my field top out with impact factors of about 3. As impact factor is in essence a measure of citations per article, it seems surprising that a journal like PLOS ONE that…
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What is a fair metric for assessing the citation impact of journals across disciplines?

To quote Thomsons "a journal's Impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years." I assume that disciplines vary in average number of citations…
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How much does the impact factor vary from year to year?

Journal impact factors are averages of samples of a power-law distribution (most papers are not cited, lots are highly cited). Wouldn't you expect the year-to-year impact factor to vary widely...? At least for journals publishing few papers? What is…
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Which bibliometrics index to trust more?

We've already discussed about which bibliometric indeces are diffused the most, and how they work. We all know that, along the most common h-index, there are many other parameters deriving from it or similar to it. From Publish or Perish website, we…
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Is there an official, widely used subject classification?

For a university project I want to classify authors according to the subjects/domains they frequently publish in. For this purpose I want to first establish a subject classification with the according hierarchies (for example, chemical engineering…
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Is there formal data demonstrating that academic pressures has been increasing over time?

QUESTION: Is there formal data demonstrating that academic pressures (e.g. "publish or perish") has been increasing over time? Did anybody draw a rough calendar of which laws and rules changed at which time, resulting in the rise of such academic…
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Are standard metrics of academic output skewed by the relative popularity of a field?

The number of citations seems to be a good unit of measurement for someone's success in a specific field, however, shouldn't the h-index also include the popularity of a given field? For example, I've seen papers in computer science being cited…
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What sources provide a list of all academic topics?

I'm an STS student, so bear with me; I'm happy to provide clarification but I want to leave the specific application unspecified: What sources would you consult if you were trying to generate a huge "list of all academic topics"? I'm thinking it…
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How to calculate Hm-Index?

Michael Schreiber proposed the Hm-Index. It is related to the h-index but it adjusts for the number of authors on a paper. So, for instance, if you had two people with a h-index of 10, but one had all sole-author papers and the other had…
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How would I judge the status of a researcher without talking to them or reading their papers?

I was using Google Scholar to judge the rank of a researcher, but then realized I couldn't find everyone I wanted to and came across this question which highlighted this problem. Looking at Scorpus, which was suggested in that same answer, seems to…
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Acknowledgments in google scholar citations

Is it acceptable to add articles under my profile in "google scholar citation" in which i was acknowledged for my real contribution rather than being a co-author?
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Is there a formal way to aggregate the Web of Science Categories?

I'm doing network analysis at the level of the author using data from Web of Science. As you might know, the column, WC has information about the Web of Science Categories, which are around 250 disciplines. I was wondering if there is a proper way…
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Is there a tool for finding or visualizing bibliographic trails between two sources?

As the questions indicates, I am curious if there is a tool that finds bibliographic trails ("cited by Y", "cites X") connecting two sources. I have found connectedpapers.com but this only works for inserting a single source.
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How does Semantic Scholar count influential citations?

On Semantic Scholar, each author has a count of "Highly Influential Citations", see for example https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Onur-Mutlu/1734461. This information is also present in the API (field influentialCitationCount). How are those…
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