Traditional citation analysis has been widely applied to detect patterns of scientific collaboration, map the landscapes of scholarly disciplines, assess the impact of research outputs, and observe knowledge transfer across domains. It is, however, limited, as it assumes all citations are of similar value and weights each equally. Content-based citation analysis (CCA) addresses a citation’s val...

this study historically analyzes the scientific output of mathematics to describe its structure, notions and scientific origin using the historiographical method. the research data consisted of scientific outputs of mathematics in isi database, science citation index (sci) and social science citation index (ssci) during 8 years (1990 to 2007). the data collection tool was the search engine and ...

objective(s): citation tracking is an important method to analyze the scientific impact of journal articles and can be done through scopus (sc), google scholar (gs), or isi web of knowledge (wos). in the current study, we analyzed the citations to 2011-2012 articles of iranian journal of basic medical sciences (ijbms) in these three resources.   material and methods: the relevant data from sc, ...

librarians are frequently consulted about proper citation formats and support the use of pc-based personal bibliographic citation management programs, such as endnote, often used by faculty and graduate students. recently, free or inexpensive web-based tools have been developed that create citations and format bibliographies. an analysis of citations generated by these programs shows that they ...

journal performance metrics are designed to help users know the best journals in different scientific fields. in this article, some journals indexed in isc database are compared using scopus and isc performance indicators. the scopus journal analyzer uses snip and sjr as alternatives for if which consider citation analysis differently. new performance indicators consider differences in citation...