Comment: Bibliometrics in the Context of the UK Research Assessment Exercise [PDF]
Research funding and reputation in the UK have, for over two decades, been increasingly dependent on a regular peer-review of all UK departments. This is to move to a system more based on bibliometrics. Assessment exercises of this kind influence the behavior of institutions, departments and individuals, and therefore bibliometrics will have effects ...
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Bibliometrics as Weapons of Mass Citation La bibliométrie comme arme de citation massive
The allocation of resources for research is increasingly based on so-called 'bibliometrics'. Scientists are now deemed to be successful on the sole condition that their work be abundantly cited. This world-wide trend appears to enjoy support not
Antoinette Molinié+1 more
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Bibliometrics has the ambitious goal of measuring science. To this end, it exploits the way science is disseminated trough scientific publications and the resulting citation network of scientific papers. We survey the main historical contributions to the field, the most interesting bibliometric indicators, and the most popular bibliometric data sources.
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Science and its significant other: Representing the humanities in bibliometric scholarship [PDF]
Bibliometrics offers a particular representation of science. Through bibliometric methods a bibliometrician will always highlight particular elements of publications, and through these elements operationalize particular representations of science, while obscuring other possible representations from view.
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Measurement of scientific literature: a review of methods
Measurement of scientific literature is here considered a substantial part of the study of interdisciplinarity. It is argued that the determination of interdisciplinarity can be made through the use of scientometrics and bibliometrics.
Alexandre do Espírito Santo+1 more
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Bibliometric-based Study of Scientist Academic Genealogy
This study aims to construct new models and methods of academic genealogy research based on bibliometrics.
Lv Ruihua, Chang Huan
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Editorial for the Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval Workshop at ECIR 2014 [PDF]
This first "Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval" (BIR 2014) workshop aims to engage with the IR community about possible links to bibliometrics and scholarly communication. Bibliometric techniques are not yet widely used to enhance retrieval processes in digital libraries, although they offer value-added effects for users.
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Comparing Bibliometric Statistics Obtained from the Web of Science and Scopus [PDF]
For more than 40 years, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI, now part of Thomson Reuters) produced the only available bibliographic databases from which bibliometricians could compile large-scale bibliometric indicators. ISI's citation indexes, now regrouped under the Web of Science (WoS), were the major sources of bibliometric data until ...
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By the Numbers: Bibliometrics and Altmetrics as Measures of Faculty Impact in the Field of Religion.
Citation analysis is a staple in the sciences for measuring the impact of faculty members' output, but heavy reliance on monographs as a vehicle of scholarly communication diminished the value of bibliometrics in theological disciplines.
Beth M. Sheppard
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Editorial for the First Workshop on Mining Scientific Papers: Computational Linguistics and Bibliometrics [PDF]
The workshop "Mining Scientific Papers: Computational Linguistics and Bibliometrics" (CLBib 2015), co-located with the 15th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference (ISSI 2015), brought together researchers in Bibliometrics and Computational Linguistics in order to study the ways Bibliometrics can benefit from large-scale ...
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