In a previous editorial,l I discussed the use of the Science Citation hufex~ in evaluating research. In this editorial, I am reprinting part of a letter which expressed my reaction to the use of publication counting--which underlies the whole publish-or-perish sYndrome-as a method of evaluating research. Some background may be necessary. In 1963, Hedge suggested that “publication of scientific ...

One of the most important requirements of building applicable models and meaningful indicators for the use of scientometrics at the micro and meso level is the correct identification and disambiguation of authors and institutes. Platforms like ResearcherID or ORCID with author registration providing high reliability but lower coverage now provide appropriate data sets for the development and te...

BACKGROUND Our aim, within the collaborative study SPHERE (Strengthening Public Health Research in Europe), was to produce a bibliometric overview of public health research literature for Europe. METHODS A search strategy ('filter') was designed to interrogate the Science Citation Index (SCI) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) databases for research articles published between 01/01/...

Introduction: In contrast with other tropical countries, Cuba has been frequently studied from the point of views scientometrics. It reported that Cuban researchers often failed to cite or collaborate them, and 78 % scientifc output is published in journals mostly missed by Scopus Web Science. Objective: this article, we analyze article characteristics (subject, language, authorship), instituti...

We are interested in modelling the time to first citation, that is how long does it take for a publication to be cited for the first time after it has been published in a journal. We argue that both cited and uncited publications should contribute to the distribution of the time to first citation. Moreover, our objective is to model the time to first citation nonparametrically, hence under no p...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Tropical and vector borne diseases have always been a challenge for the medical science and society and exerted high impact on society in terms of financial, economical and psychological relevance. Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is one of the tropical diseases which is prevalent in under developing and developed countries. The objective of this study is to analyze the literat...

â  publishing geographical journals which is most often carried out by universities and research institutions and by the private sector in the country has an important role in providing scientific achievements and shows the status of the geographical society of the country. it is also one the evaluation tools for the status of articles, authors and how they are being indexed in the citation dat...

There are many real-life examples of formal systems that support constructions or proofs, but that do not provide direct support for remembering them so that they can be recalled and reused in the future. In this paper we examine the operations of publication (remembering a proof) and citation (recalling a proof for reuse), regarding them as forms of common subexpression elimination on proof te...

Objective: This study aimed to identify and analyse the characteristics of highly cited papers (HCPs) in optics publications from India indexed Web Science Core Collection database over past 30 years. The analysis focused on document types, annual production citations per publication, journals, countries, institutes, authors, top papers. also evaluated publication performance institutions compa...