Questions tagged [bibliometrics]
Bibliometrics is a set of methods to quantitatively analyze scientific and technological literature.
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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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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 ...
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How to get cited and how to boost the impact of one's work?
Six years ago while I was working in a company outside academia, I had been involved in improving a process which was hot in academia. I have developed a new method which, among other notable ...
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Towards a Stackexchange-like comment/reputation system for research papers
We have had quite a few discussions on how to gauge the quality of research papers and academic journals. The consensus is that it is tough to identify a single metric which could reveal this quality ...
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How and why did the top journals become top journals?
Journals like Nature and Science have impressive impact factors. How and why did these top journals become top journals? Why are they able to sustain their statuses?
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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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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 ?
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What are the super cool tricks to getting published in high impact journals?
I am starting a post-doc in Cognitive Neuroscience and I am interested in publishing my work in high impact journals (e.g., Nature, Science, Behavioral and Brain Science). I have already published ...
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How do journals improve their impact factor?
I would like to know how journals improve their impact score? It seems that great journals have almost always been great and second tier journals have always been second tier. How does a journal go ...
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Does Impact Factor reflect the quality of a journal?
Is the impact factor really useful for judging the quality of a journal article?
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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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Strategy for submission of articles to highly ranked journals
I am working on a research project that all total will probably end up lasting about two years. As the research progresses, I am writing articles about each new discovery/study, with each article ...
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why is the impact factor of mathematical journals "often" lower than the impact factor of journals in other disciplines
I was always wondering why is the impact factor of mathematical journals "often" lower than the impact factor of journals in other disciplines? I come up with some guesses that I would like to know ...
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How to survive in the academic world: focus entirely on top-tier results, or spend effort on lower-tier results to boost h-index?
During my fourth year as a postdoctoral researcher in computer science at my university, a position for an assistant professor opened up and was available to be filled by one of the local postdocs. We ...
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How to withdraw an under review manuscript from a journal when you decide you want to submit to another journal with a higher impact factor?
I submitted my first article to a journal and the journal indicated that it was now under review.
Now, I want to withdraw my article. The journal has a lower impact factor than a different journal, ...
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How do I get published in Nature or Science?
I'm a fairly new chemical engineering graduate student. I've been doing research for one semester so far (in molecular dynamics) and in the process have learned about journals and "impact factor" (a ...
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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 ...
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Is it good to have all the PhD publications in one journal
I have two papers published in a APS journal and another paper just got accepted to the same journal (the journal is a reputed one in my field). It has been almost two years for my PhD. So I have ...
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How to remove citations from Google Scholar profile?
As the number of citations to some of my articles recently increased, I took a look to see who cites me among the articles listed on Google Scholar. To my surprise I found that I was cited in a ...
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Is the reputation/prestige of the scientific journals where you published a paper really important?
Excuse me for the naive question, but is the reputation/prestige of the journal you chose for your publication really important?
In the end, I believe the scientific content of your paper must be the ...
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What is the effect of a journal going open-access on its impact factor?
I recently saw this reasonably interesting graphic regarding journals and open access.
As many of you know, there is a large discussion about open access. It appears to be most strong within ...
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Why did SoftwareX’ impact factor drop from 4.5 SJR to 0.4 last year?
I planned to submit one of my long-developed software pieces to the prestigious journal SoftwareX. I was preparing for this for a while and making my code ready, and was just about to submit and ...
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Recently published paper does not cite my very relevant work
Before I start my PhD I worked in a group that researched on the application of a particular area to a particular domain. No other research group published work in this area+domain. So I can safely ...
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Mention impact factor or conference acceptance rate in CV
Some people, in their CV or publication list, add bibliometric information to each entry. I've typically seen:
mention the impact factor of each journal
number of citations of each paper
mention the ...
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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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Is there an independent oversight body of Journal Impact Factors?
I have read many questions on this site that relate to Journal impact factors, for example, in relation to how that may affect where to publish etc.
I am wondering is there an independent oversight ...
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Are academic indicators (h-index, impact factor, etc) really adopted by institutions? Currently used? And how?
Academic indicators (h-index, impact factor, modified h-indexes, etc) have a long string of criticism by academics and not (see here, here or here).
Instead of debating (endlessly) on how "not ...
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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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What is the average number of articles written per author in a year and has it increased recently?
Did anyone research 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 maybe ...
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Are there boycotts of university rankings?
Motivation: Our university has asked us to provide contacts for possible referees for our university for the QS ranking; apparently this "find your own reviewers" system has a 40% weight in ...
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How can I stop a "citation cartel" still active?
How can I fight against a "citation cartel" (still active)?
They are manipulating citations (mostly through "coercive citation") from at least two journals. Two journal are used as "platforms" and two ...
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Is there documentation on how long it takes before publications are indexed by Scopus and Web of Science?
The two major bibliographic databases - Scopus and Web of Science\Web of Knowledge - have one very badly-documented limitation; their update lag. While the majority of papers are added quickly, it can ...
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From a historical perspective, when did impact factors become so important?
This is a question on the historicity of impact factors for journals. There are hundreds of questions and websites on the impact factor of journals, or journal rankings (and fake rankings and impact ...
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Curious case of self-citations and how to monitor self-citers?
If one looks superficially at the publications of author X, he seems to be one of the top scientists in his field. But looking more closely his citations are 60% from himself 35% from his co-author, ...
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What is the relationship between impact factor and journal ranking
As a second year graduate student, it's become increasingly difficult for me to figure out what journals are the most prestigious. My research is very interdisciplinary, and so journals from many ...
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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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How does Microsoft Academic Search generate its rankings?
Yesterday, during some idle time in the office, a colleague of mine has discovered that I am currently ranked at position 20 worldwide by Microsoft Academic Search for my subfield regarding the last 5 ...
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Is it OK to add citations from low impact factor journals?
For example, let us consider that I write a manuscript which is to be submitted to one of the prestigious journals such as PRL, PRB, etc. In this manuscript, is it OK to cite from some journals which ...
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If I write a really bad, but controversial, paper, can I increase my h-index?
Imagine that I write a paper about a controversial topic like global warming denial, the link between vaccines and autism, why different races have different IQ. After publication, the paper gets the ...
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Should self-citations be excluded when calculating the h-index?
The Hirsch index, or h-index is a widely used citation statistic that, arguably, accurately reflects the impact of a scientist. It takes into account the number of publications as well as how often ...
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Can [edit: or should] a scientist's h-index decrease in the case highly cited publications are retracted?
I am at the moment preparing a workshop unit dealing with 'digital publication'. While writing down my script I noticed that I usually tell the participants that a scientist's h-index cannot decrease. ...
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What is a common way to tell if an academic is "above average," or outstanding in their field? Is their h-index (Hirsh index) one of them?
If one claimed that a particular scholar was "above average" or "noted" in their field, is there any good metric by which to support or deny such a claim?
Is there a generally accepted way to ...
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My h-index is very low and I want to increase it
Nowadays universities judge faculty based on their h-index, to be promoted from assistant to associate or to be hired as associate in some universities you need at least a h-index of 10. I am ...
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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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