Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK, School of Health Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK, Edinburgh Ethnicity and Health Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough Un...

Scholarly usage data provides unique opportunities to address the known shortcomings of citation analysis. However, the collection, processing and analysis of usage data remains an area of active research. This article provides a review of the state-of-the-art in usage-based informetric, i.e. the use of usage data to study the scholarly process.

Why devote an ARIST chapter to scholarly communication and bibliometrics, and why now? Bibliometrics already is a frequently covered ARIST topic, with chapters such as that by White and McCain (1989) on bibliometrics generally, White and McCain (1997) on visualization of literatures, Wilson and Hood (2001) on informetric laws, and Tabah (2001) on literature dynamics. Similarly, scholarly commun...

Each year since 2004, a new Horizon Report has been released. Each edition attempts to forecast the most promising technologies likely to impact on education along three horizons: the short term (the year of the report), the mid-term (the next 2 years) and the long term (the next 4 years). This paper analyzes the evolution of technology trends from 2004 to 2014 that correspond to the long-term ...

This paper introduces a novel application in bibliometrics of the barycenter method. Using places of publication barycenters, we measure internationalization of book publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Based on 2002-2011 data for Flanders, Belgium, we demonstrate how the geographic center of weight of book publishing is different for the Social Sciences than for the Humanities. Wh...

This research uses 10-year (2004-2013) publication and citation data related to plant biotechnology to assess the research performance, impact, and collaboration of member states of the ASEAN in plant biotechnology. Findings indicate increased scientific output of ASEAN countries in plant biotechnology as well as increased research collaborations by individual member states and with internation...

The allocation of resources for research is increasingly based on so-called ‘bibliometrics’. Scientists are now deemed to be successful on the sole condition that their work be abundantly cited. This world-wide trend appears to enjoy support not only by granting agencies (whose task is obviously simplified by extensive recourse to bibliometrics), but also by the scientists themselves (who seem ...

The expansion and multiplication of information sources their heterogeneity on the Web are one main difficulties encountered by users today. As a result, integration is essential. It enables data from several to be brought together consolidated. A concrete case this diversity concerns use bibliometrics analyze literature indexed in bibliographic databases. Indeed, huge amounts generated every d...