Recent results indicate that, in spite of the skewness of citation distributions, the ranking of research units that focus on the upper tail of citation distributions is quite similar to the ranking one obtains with average-based indicators. This paper explores the conjecture that this can be...

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 USA is the most productive, most cited...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the research and citation impact of open access (OA) journals versus non-OA journals being published in the spectrum of library and information science (LIS) across the world and to further ascertain whether OA journals have greater citation counts than...

Purpose – This paper's aim is to examine the citation impact of Iranian funded research publications and compare it with research which received no funding. Design/methodology/approach – Using a bibliometric method, the study investigated 80,300 Iranian publications published from 2000 to...