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Bibliometric profile of top-cited single-author articles in the Science Citation Index Expanded
Chuang, Kun-Yang; Ho, Yuh-Shan - In: Journal of Informetrics 8 (2014) 4, pp. 951-962
In this study, we identified and analyzed characteristics of top-cited single-author articles published in the Science Citation Index Expanded from 1991 to 2010. A top-cited single-author article was defined as an article that had been cited at least 1000 times from the time of its publication...
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The Hirsch spectrum: A novel tool for analyzing scientific journals
Franceschini, Fiorenzo; Maisano, Domenico - In: Journal of Informetrics 4 (2010) 1, pp. 64-73
This paper introduces the Hirsch spectrum (h-spectrum) for analyzing the academic reputation of a scientific journal. h-Spectrum is a novel tool based on the Hirsch (h) index. It is easy to construct: considering a specific journal in a specific interval of time, h-spectrum is defined as the...
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How important is choice of the scaling factor in standardizing citations?
Abramo, Giovanni; Cicero, Tindaro; D’Angelo, Ciriaco … - In: Journal of Informetrics 6 (2012) 4, pp. 645-654
standardization involves scaling by some factor that characterizes the distribution of the citations of articles from the same year … scaling factor chosen to standardize their citations. To do this we first prepare the productivity rankings for all …
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Individual research performance: A proposal for comparing apples to oranges
Abramo, Giovanni; Cicero, Tindaro; D’Angelo, Ciriaco … - In: Journal of Informetrics 7 (2013) 2, pp. 528-539
The evaluation of performance at the individual level is of fundamental importance in informing management decisions. The literature provides various indicators and types of measures, however a problem that is still unresolved and little addressed is how to compare the performance of researchers...
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Consistent bibliometric rankings of authors and of journals
Bouyssou, D.; Marchant, T. - In: Journal of Informetrics 4 (2010) 3, pp. 365-378
it/he publishes. We present a pair of consistent rankings (impact factor for the journals and total number of citations …
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Empirical study of L-Sequence: The basic h-index sequence for cumulative publications with consideration of the yearly citation performance
Liu, Yu; Yang, Yongliang - In: Journal of Informetrics 8 (2014) 3, pp. 478-485
performance (for convenience, referred as L-Sequence). L-Sequence consists of a series of L factors. Based on the citations …
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Revisiting the scaling of citations for research assessment
Abramo, Giovanni; Cicero, Tindaro; D’Angelo, Ciriaco … - In: Journal of Informetrics 6 (2012) 4, pp. 470-479
, have begun opening to bibliometric indicators. The citations received by a publication are assumed as proxy for its quality … to compare the effectiveness of the different methods of normalizing citations, in order to provide useful indications to … that the citations average is the most effective scaling parameter, when the average is based only on the publications …
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Modeling a century of citation distributions
Wallace, Matthew L.; Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves - In: Journal of Informetrics 3 (2009) 4, pp. 296-303
The prevalence of uncited papers or of highly cited papers, with respect to the bulk of publications, provides important clues as to the dynamics of scientific research. Using 25 million papers and 600 million references from the Web of Science over the 1900–2006 period, this paper proposes a...
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Chinese-language articles are not biased in citations: Evidences from Chinese-English bilingual journals in Scopus and Web of Science
Li, Jiang; Qiao, Lili; Li, Wenyuze; Jin, Yidan - In: Journal of Informetrics 8 (2014) 4, pp. 912-916
-language articles were not biased in citations compared with English-language articles, since they received a large number of citations … received citations from Chinese-language articles, but it was not found in WoS whose coverage of Chinese-language articles is …
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Independent research of China in Science Citation Index Expanded during 1980–2011
Fu, Hui-Zhen; Ho, Yuh-Shan - In: Journal of Informetrics 7 (2013) 1, pp. 210-222
1000 citations were examined, and were observed to concern medicine, nanotube, and adsorption. In addition, main …
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