In recent years the number of academic publication increased strongly. As this information flood grows, it becomes more difficult for researchers to find relevant literature effectively. To overcome this difficulty, recommendation systems can be used which often utilize text similarity to find related documents. To improve those systems we add scientometrics as a ranking measure for popularity ...

The research area of scientometrics began during the second half of the 19th century. After decades of growth, the international field of scientometrics has become increasingly mature. The present study intends to understand the evolution of the collaboration network in Scientometrics. The growth of the discipline is divided into three stages: the first time period (1978-1990), the second perio...

Scholia is a tool to handle scientific bibliographic information through Wikidata. The Scholia Web service creates on-the-fly scholarly profiles for researchers, organizations, journals, publishers, individual scholarly works, and for research topics. To collect the data, it queries the SPARQL-based Wikidata Query Service. Among several display formats available in Scholia are lists of publicat...

The research field of spatial scientometrics is dedicated to measuring and analyzing science with spatial components (e.g., location, place, mapping). It involves the study of spatial patterns, impacts and trends of scientific activities (e.g., co-publication, citation, academic mobility) based on bibliographic databases. Because of the dynamic nature of this field, researchers from interdiscip...

The field of scientometrics is concerned with measuring and analyzing the impact of science in its broadest sense. All but the most basic measures require a substantial amount of data retrieval, cleaning, and integration, and therefore are performed semi-automatically on relatively small subsets of data. Furthermore, many of the more interesting and advanced questions in the field of scientomet...

This article is devoted to the attitude of Russian university teachers toward scientometrics and its indicators, which have been imposed on them by administrations state since 2012. In addition substantiating problem’s urgency, contains a brief critical outline main scientometric parameters their application in practice Russia. To evaluate this, 283 people from leading universities Russia (incl...

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