Despite preceding related publications, works dealing with the resolution of software engineering problems by search techniques has especially risen since 2001. By its first decade, the Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) approach has been successfully employed in several software engineering contexts, using various optimization techniques. Aside the relevance of such applications, knowled...

Bibliometric Evaluation vs. Informed Peer Review: Evidence from Italy A relevant question for the organization of large scale research assessments is whether bibliometric evaluation and informed peer review where reviewers know where the work was published, yield similar results. It would suggest, for instance, that less costly bibliometric evaluation might at least partly replace informed peer...

Bibliometrics has become an increasingly necessary tool for studying and analysing an institution's scientific activity. Research librarians must be able to extract, interpret and represent bibliometric data in different ways depending on the user to whom they are to be presented. In this article, we describe the process of creating a bibliometric data management and consultation tool, called B...

This chapter provides an introduction into the topic of visualizing bibliometric networks. First, the most commonly studied types of bibliometric networks (i.e., citation, co-citation, bibliographic coupling, keyword co-occurrence, and co-authorship networks) are discussed, and three popular visualization approaches (i.e., distance-based, graph-based, and timeline-based approaches) are distingu...

This study introduces a bibliometric approach to study international scientific migration, based on an analysis of the affiliation countries of authors publishing in peer reviewed scientificscholarly journals indexed in Scopus. A model is presented relating base notions in migration and collaboration studies to bibliometric constructs, and its potentialities and limitations are discussed. Synch...

BACKGROUND The h index bibliometric indicator for evaluating scientists and scientific institutions plays an increasingly important role in evaluating contemporary scientific research, including chemistry. RESULTS Citations are meaningful. The best way of measuring performance is to use the informed peer review, where peers judge on the base of a bibliometric report, once the limits and advan...

Structured abstract Purpose: To carry out a bibliometric analysis of the development of Chinese research in superconductivity since the advent of high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) in the mid-Eighties, and to compare Chinese research with that of its international competitors. the Web of Science database. Findings: Chinese HTS research has grown steadily in importance over the period with...

Bibliometric techniques have been introduced to the field of industrial health in the past two decades. Since then, several studies have assessed progression of science in this area using quantitative measures and qualitative measures such as impact factor or H-indices. Since novel procedures such as density-equalizing mapping have not been used so far, the present study combined classical bibl...

The paper adds a category to the list of possible negative steering effects of bibliometric indicators with a category for changes in credit assignment. The results of a longitudinal study of credit assignment practices in the fields of economics and information science are presented. The practice of alphabetization of authorship is demonstrated to vary significantly between the two fields. A s...