Bibliometrics is a set of methods to quantitatively analyze scientific and technological literature.
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What computations of the Lotka function exist for publications in humanities meta-disciplines?
Given Lotka's law's general applicability to publishing rates and bibliometrics; what computations of the Lotka function exist for the meta-disciplines in the humanities? (Philosophy, History, ...
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How complete are academic databases?
Right now I'm using Web of Knowledge, ScienceDirect, etc. to find papers to read and get some metadata. My university has a subscription, so this is nice. As far as I know these databases simply have ...
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Scientific output of researchers in industry and academia
How does the scientific output of PhD’s who work in industry compare to that of PhD’s who stayed in academia (professors, mainly). In mean, in terms of number of publications, conferences, etc.
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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 ...
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Does the eigenfactor ranking depend on number of articles in a journal?
The eigenfactor is offered by ISI Web of Knowledge as an alternative journal score compared to the impact factor. It is explained on their site as follows:
The Eigenfactor Score calculation is ...
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Will self-citation be viewed as self-promotion in academia?
As we know, citation counts are important to judge one's research activity. Is it good to cite one's previous works? Will it be viewed as an act of advertisement or self-promotion?
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What is the closest alternative journal to journal X?
Does anyone know of a website or resource that identifies the nearest journal neighbours to journal X (any specific journal) in terms of content (perhaps defined by some distance metric defined on ...
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Easy way to see historical trend in keywords in publications?
Is there an easy way or existing tool to generate a historical chart with the occurrence of one or more user-specified keyword(s) (combinations) in academic publications, based on the words in the ...
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How do I use/add first name (or forename) in citation?
I like to use first names (or forename) to cite the work of others.
It has become even more relevent when I found that somebody working in my field shares my initial and surname.
However, this is not ...
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Which is the most accepted measure for an individual's academic productivity?
Among the various indices for academic productivity/impact in the respective field, which is most accepted one?
You can see some productivity measures, used in academia, here and here
This question ...
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What is the average number of articles written per author in a year and has it increased recently?
Does anyone researched the data about scientific productivity? I.e. what is the average number of articles written by author in a year in a specific field? I am referring to average, since this 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 ...
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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 ...
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How many people read an individual journal article?
General background
Some time ago, I was reading a blog post, where there was some discussion about how many people read journal articles.
I think that such an estimate is important when trying to ...
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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 ...
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What are the common productivity measures of a scientist, like h-index?
I am aware of h-index. I was wondering what other types of scores are both widely and rarely used to measure the impact of a scientist?
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Scientifically meaningful sources of bibliometrics
Whether we like it or not, modern academia is increasingly being measured, in some vain attempt to get objective measures. Although it is unwise to fight 'being measured', it is at least possible to ...
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Where can I find the Impact Factor for a given journal?
As from title. Not all journals provide the impact factor on their homepage. For those who don't where can I find their impact factor ?
