Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: Uses and Abuses [Book Review]
Measuring the impact of research and publications (bibliometrics) has become increasingly common for libraries, academic institutions, and scholars.
Sarah Norris
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On the challenges ahead of spatial scientometrics focusing on the city level [PDF]
Since the mid-1970s, it has become highly acknowledged to measure and evaluate changes in international research collaborations and the scientific performance of institutions and countries through the prism of bibliometric and scientometric data. Spatial bibliometrics and scientometrics (henceforward spatial scientometrics) have traditionally focused ...
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La bibliometr a es la ciencia que estudia con una metodolog a de ra z estad stica las formas de producci n, contenidos, difusi n y efectos (principalmente en t rminos de impacto) de las publicaciones. El mayor inter s de la bibliometr a (o cienciometr a, si la restringimos a las publicaciones acad micas) reside en que permite estudiar ...
Rovira-Esteva, Sara+2 more
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Scientometric mapping of the trends, impact, and thematic evolution of scientific production on ehrlichiosis in veterinary medicine [PDF]
Background and Aim: This study focuses on the scientific output of ehrlichiosis, a tick-borne disease that affects a variety of animal species, including dogs, cats, and livestock.
Fran Espinoza-Carhuancho+6 more
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Career development tips for today's nursing academic: bibliometrics, altmetrics and social media [PDF]
© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aims: A discussion of bibliometrics, altmetrics and social media for the contemporary nursing scholar and academic researcher.
Smith, Derek R., Watson, Roger
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Do bibliometrics introduce gender, institutional or interdisciplinary biases into research evaluations? [PDF]
Systematic evaluations of publicly funded research typically employ a combination of bibliometrics and peer review, but it is not known whether the bibliometric component introduces biases. This article compares three alternative mechanisms for scoring 73,612 UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) journal articles from all 34 field-based Units of ...
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On the analogy between the evolution of thermodynamicand bibliometric systems: a breakthrough or justa bubble? [PDF]
This paper presents an in depth study of an interesting analogy, recently proposed by Prathap (Scientometrics 87(3):515-524, 2011a), between the evolution of thermodynamic and bibliometric systems.
Franceschini, Fiorenzo+1 more
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Feasibility of common bibliometrics in evaluating translational science
Introduction A pilot study by 6 Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) explored how bibliometrics can be used to assess research influence. Methods
M. Schneider+6 more
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Cities on and off the map: A bibliometric assessment of urban globalisation research [PDF]
Growing out of writings on Global (North) cities, urban globalisation research (UGR) has expanded its canon to engage with an increasing diversity of cities and locations. Yet, this broadening has been uneven and controversial in its theoretical horizons
Grant, R., Jianu, R., Kanai, J. M.
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Theme Mapping and Bibliometrics Analysis of One Decade of Big Data Research in the Scopus Database
Recently, the popularity of big data as a research field has shown continuous and wide-scale growth. This study aims to capture the scientific structure and topic evolution of big data research using bibliometrics and text mining-based analysis methods ...
Anne Parlina, K. Ramli, H. Murfi
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