using bibliographic records from the social science citation index, science citation index, and arts & humanities citation index, this paper tries to give a complete view of the evolution of the field of scientometrics based on its literature published during 1980 to 2009. this is a descriptive survey using scientometric indicators. findings revealed that out of 691 articles in the field of sci...

A citation-based indicator for interdisciplinarity has been missing hitherto among the set of available journal indicators despite the high policy-relevance of “interdisciplinarity” (Laudel & Origgi, 2006; Wagner et al., 2010). None of the more recent additions to the set of journal indicators has focused specifically on interdisciplinarity (Zitt, 2005). Leydesdorff (2007) experimented with bet...

Data is indexed in the Web of Science through the inclusion of data journal content in Web of Science journal databases and data repository content in the Data Citation Index. Here we detail new developments in data journal selection and inclusion, as well as recommended practices for research authors, data providers, journal publishers, and funding organizations, to improve citation and attrib...

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The paper proposes a heuristic approach to modeling the cumulative distribution of citations of papers in scientific journals by means of the Wakeby distribution. The Markov process of citation leading to the Wakeby distribution is analyzed using the terminal time formalism. The Wakeby distribution is derived in the paper from the simple and general inhomogeneous Choquet-Deny convolution equati...

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Rankings of scholarly journals based on citation data are often met with scepticism by the scientific community. Part of the scepticism is due to disparity between the common perception of journals' prestige and their ranking based on citation counts. A more serious concern is the inappropriate use of journal rankings to evaluate the scientific influence of researchers. The paper focuses on ana...