Due to the increasing number of authors per publication, a change in counting method for a publication or citation indicator will often change the result of the indicator. Therefore it is important to know why a specific counting method has been applied. I have analyzed arguments for counting methods in a sample of 13 recent bibliometric studies and compared the result with discussions of argum...

Impact factor in 2000 the usual way of expressing citation frequency, but has the advantage that it permits easier comparison of the impact Fig. 1 shows that Cardiovascular Research will score an of consecutive year volumes of the journal. Fig. 2 shows all time high impact factor of 3.59 in the year 2000. This an optimum for the citation frequency of the 1995 contents impact factor reflects the...

PRINCIPLES Citation metrics are commonly used as a proxy for scientific merit and relevance. Papers published in English, however, may exhibit a higher citation frequency than research articles published in other languages, though this issue has not yet been investigated from a Swiss perspective where English is not the native language. METHODS To assess the impact of publication language on ...

Digital libraries do not assign importance/relevance scores to their publications, authors, or publication venues, even though scores are potentially useful for (a) providing comparative assessment, or ”importances”, of publications, authors, publication venues, (b) ranking publications returned in search outputs, and (c) using scores in locating similar publications. Using social networks and ...

Research evaluation is increasingly popular and important among research funding bodies and science policy makers. Various indicators have been proposed to evaluate the standing of individual scientists, institutions, journals, or countries. A simple and popular one among the indicators is the h-index, the Hirsch index (Hirsch 2005), which is an indicator for lifetime achievement of a scholar. ...

The performance-oriented allocation of funds and excellence initiatives is now widespread in science and research and has led to questions concerning fair national and international bibliometric benchmarks for comparing scientific institutions becoming a hot topic. As publication and citation practices strongly depend on scientific fields, field normalisation is widely recognised as necessary f...

The citation relationships between publications, which are significant for assessing the importance of scholarly components within a network, have been used for various scientific applications. Missing citation metadata in scholarly databases, however, create problems for classical citation-based ranking algorithms and challenge the performance of citation-based retrieval systems. In this resea...

background: thesis is an important part of specialisation and doctorate education and requires intense work. the aim of this study was to investigate the publication rates of turkish public health doctorate theses (phdt) and public health specialization (phst) theses in international and turkish national peer-review journals and to analyze the distribution of research areas. methods: list of al...

As the APJCP steps in its 18th year of serving cancer scientists in Asia and Pacific region, the need to look back and examine past strategies is a must. After going through lows of losing Expanded Science Citation status (Moore, 2015) and reaching to the verge of losing PubMed listing (Mosavi Jarrahi, 2016), the journal is now in a stable situation to plan for its future. The journal citation ...