The Humboltian image of an independent academic is challenged by the recent developments in the governance of universities. Digital technology has produced new tools for the surveillance and steering of researchers’ work. Researchers become actors in an economy based on the disembedded symbolic tokens of publications and citations. Incentives are produced, which make researchers subservient to ...

The production and publication of scientific works have increased significantly in the last years, being the Internet the main factor of access and diffusion of these. In view of this, researchers from several areas of knowledge have carried out several studies on scientific production data in order to analyze phenomena and trends about science. The understanding of how research has evolved can...

This paper presents a methodological framework for developing scientific mobility indicators based on bibliometric data. We identify nearly 16 million individual authors from all publications covered in the Web of Science for the 2008-2015 period. Based on the information provided across individuals’ publication record, we propose a general classification by which to analyze scientific mobility...

Both publication and patent indicators are used as proxy to measure the scientific and technological productivity of a country. An application for a patent indicates that there has been a production of new knowledge linked to an invention, and, more importantly, that this knowledge might have potential economic returns. The bibliometric indicator that measures the number of publications gives a...

The indices such as h-index, e-index etc has received much attention from the scientific community owing to their prowess to impact journal quality. Many different indicatorshave been developed to overcome drawbacks of h-index. Nearly four indices which are of prime importance in the publishing industry were utilized.In this paper, we present a modified k-means algorithm to generate three clust...

This paper presents an overview of advanced bibliometric methods for (1) objective and transparent assessment of strengths and weaknesses in research performance, and (2) monitoring interdisciplinary scientific developments. In the first application, we focus on the detailed analysis of research performance in an international comparative perspective. We demonstrate that advanced bibliometric m...

We analyze the citation distributions of all papers published in Physical Review journals between 1985 and 2009. The average number of citations received by papers published in a given year and in a given field is computed. Large variations are found, showing that it is not fair to compare citation numbers across fields and years. However, when a rescaling procedure by the average is used, it i...

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