Every year, in hundreds of universities and colleges throughout the world, thousands of academic administrators go through the painful process of evaluating tens of thousands of candidates for promotion. In most cases, their decisions are based on a faculty committee’s appraisal of the candidate’s teaching ability, research performance, and involvement in the scholarly community. Although this ...

Databases catalogue the corpus of research literature into scientific categories and report classes of bibliometric data such as the number of citations to articles, the number of authors, journals, funding agencies, institutes, references, etc. The number of articles and citations in a category are gauges of productivity and scientific impact but a quantitative basis to compare researchers bet...

When evaluated for promotion or tenure, faculty members are increasingly judged more on the quality than on the quantity of their scholarly publications. As a result, they want help from librarians in locating all citations to their published works for documentation in their curriculum vitae. Citation analysis using Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index provides a logical sta...

Citations from patents to scientific publications provide useful evidence about the commercial impact of academic research but automatically searchable databases are needed to exploit this connection for large scale patent citation evaluations. Google covers multiple different international patent office databases but does not index patent citations or allow automatic searches. In response, thi...

This article explores the status of research in hydrogeol-ogy using data mining techniques. First we try to explain what citation analysis is and review some of the previous work on citation analysis. The main idea in this article is to address some common issues about citation numbers and the use of these data. To validate the use of citation numbers, we compare the citation patterns for Water...

In this paper, we build on the idea of Citation Proximity Analysis (CPA), originally introduced in [1], by developing a step by step scalable approach for building CPA-based recommender systems. As part of this approach, we introduce three new proximity functions, extending the basic assumption of co-citation analysis (stating that the more often two articles are co-cited in a document, the mor...

The intellectual structure and substance of the knowledge utilization field: A longitudinal author co-citation analysis, 1945-2004 Implementation Science 2008, 3:49 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-3-49 Carole A. Estabrooks ([email protected]) Linda Derksen ([email protected]) Connie Winther ([email protected]) John N. Lavis ([email protected]) Shannon D. Scott (shannon.scott@ualb...