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Comparing People with Bibliometrics [PDF]
Bibliometric indicators, citation counts and/or download counts are increasingly being used to inform personnel decisions such as hiring or promotions. These statistics are very often misused.
Kurtz, Michael J.
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Scholarly usage data provides unique opportunities to address the known shortcomings of citation analysis. However, the collection, processing and analysis of usage data remains an area of active research.
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Bibliometrics of Bibliometrics: A Research Topic in the Mirror of Bibliometric Indicators [PDF]
This exploratory study tries to get insights on one way of exteriorizing the publication activity of bibliometricians and how such activity is taken into consideration within the scientific community. As we thought in advance, the evidence shows that the
Víctor Rodríguez
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Competencies for bibliometrics [PDF]
Universities are increasingly offering support services for bibliometrics, often based in the library. This paper describes work done to produce a competency model for those supporting bibliometrics. The results of a questionnaire in which current practitioners rated bibliometric tasks as entry level, core or specialist are reported.
Cox, A.M.+3 more
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Universality in bibliometrics [PDF]
Many discussions have enlarged the literature in Bibliometrics since the Hirsh proposal, the so called $h$-index. Ranking papers according to their citations, this index quantifies a researcher only by its greatest possible number of papers that are cited at least $h$ times.
Roberto da Silva+3 more
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Interpreting Bibliometric Data [PDF]
Many academic analyses of good practice in the use of bibliometric data address only technical aspects and fail to account for and appreciate user requirements, expectations, and actual practice. Bibliometric indicators are rarely the only evidence put before any user group.
Chris Gebert+6 more
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Bibliometric Study of Literature on Bibliometrics [PDF]
This paper analyses growth pattern, core journals and authors' distribution in the field of bibliometrics using data from Library And Information Science Abstracts (LISA). Growth of literature does not show any definite pattern. Bradford’s law of scattering is used to identify core journals and determines 'Scientometrics' as the core journals in this ...
Neera Verma+2 more
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This letter is a preprint and its final version is published in ...
Torres-Salinas, Daniel+2 more
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Scientific workflows for bibliometrics [PDF]
Scientific workflows organize the assembly of specialized software into an overall data flow and are particularly well suited for multi-step analyses using different types of software tools. They are also favorable in terms of reusability, as previously designed workflows could be made publicly available through the myExperiment community and then used
Arzu Tugce Guler+2 more
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