It is a sobering fact that some 90% of papers that have been published in academic journals are never cited. Indeed, as many as 50% of papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, referees and journal editors. We know this thanks to citation analysis, a branch of information science in which researchers study the way articles in a scholarly field are accessed and referenced by othe...

Through citation analysis, this study explored the distribution of document type, language and publication year for citations in social science journals. Samples were research articles published in 2010 from first-rank journals, as assessed by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Science Council and indexed in Taiwan Social Sciences Citation Index (TSSCI). The section in w...

Abstract We demonstrate that by using a triple of simple numerical summaries: an author’s productivity, their overall impact, and single other bibliometric index aims to capture the shape citation distribution, we can reconstruct popular metrics impact with sufficient degree precision. thus conclude use many indices may be unnecessary – entities should not multiplied beyond necessity. Such stud...

In this paper we propose two new indexes to quantify the citation status of papers and authors. The Percentile Rank Index (PRI) indicates the citation rank of the author’s individual papers among the papers published in the same year and source (journal or multi-authored monograph or book.) PRI is independent of the paper’s age, specialty, or source journal size. The Author’s Superiority Index ...

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