Many thousands of researchers are now using personal bibliographic managers such as Reference Manager, EndNote and ProCite to access bibliographic databases via the Z39.50 protocol. Using the EndNote software as an example, this paper demonstrates how researchers are using a standard search interface to access diverse databases and download references into their personal databases. There follow...

To reveal information hiding in link space of bibliographical networks, link analysis has been studied from different perspectives in recent years. In this paper, we address a novel problem namely citation prediction, that is: given information about authors, topics, target publication venues as well as time of certain research paper, finding and predicting the citation relationship between a q...

Citation-based similarity measures such as Bibliographic Coupling and Co-Citation are an integral component of many information retrieval systems. However, comparisons of the strengths and weaknesses of measures are challenging due to the lack of suitable test collections. This paper presents CITREC, an open evaluation framework for citation-based and text-based similarity measures. CITREC prep...

Journals in the " Information Science and Library Science " category of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) were compared using both bibliometric and bibliographic features. Data collected covered: journal impact factor, number of issues per year, number of authors per paper, longevity, editorial board membership, frequency of publication, number of databases indexing the journal, number of aggregat...

great deal of critical and creative thinking is needed for authoring a good paper. Nevertheless, there is a simple task during manuscript preparation, namely reference listing, which, although needs no intelligence, it can seem extremely tedious and time-consuming to authors. Apart from the impact of computers on many aspects of research, they can be a dream tool for dealing with repetitious, d...

A citation in an academic text provides the reader with exact publication information to uniquely identify and locate a scholarly resource for further study. In the domain of academic research, citations are a key part of linking discrete pieces of knowledge. As opposed to the natural language mostly used in academic texts, bibliographic applications are typically based on structured publicatio...

You know the feeling—while reading an article on a topic related to your own research, you gradually become aware of a strong similarity between the ideas expressed and those you published some time ago. A quick glance at the references cited shows you that your article isn’t mentioned. If the author is known to you, and you are confident that he or she knows about your work, then you have to d...

using bibliographic records from the social science citation index, science citation index, and arts & humanities citation index, this paper tries to give a complete view of the evolution of the field of scientometrics based on its literature published during 1980 to 2009. this is a descriptive survey using scientometric indicators. findings revealed that out of 691 articles in the field of sci...