In 2011, Thomson-Reuters introduced the Book Citation Index (BKCI) as part of the Science Citation Index (SCI). The interface of the Web of Science version 5 enables users to search for both “Books” and “Book Chapters” as new categories. Books and book chapters, however, were always among the cited references, and book chapters have been included in the database since 2005. We explore the two c...

Methods developed for mapping the journal structures contained in aggregated journaljournal citations in the Science Citation Index are applied to the Chinese Science Citation Database of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This database covers 991 journals, of which only 37 had originally English titles. Using factoranalytical and graph-analytical techniques we show that this data is dually struc...

since reference practices influence journal impact factor (jif), author self- citation (asc), number of times an author cites herself / himself, and journal self-citation (jsc), number of times the journal cites itself, as a portion of total citations should be considered in citation analysis. isi provides quantitative indicators for publications in english language. therefore, those scientific...

Introduction: Cambodia is a small agricultural tropical country for which only two scientometric studies, published five years ago, were available until now. Objective: To identify, Cambodian research, subjects, outlets, authors, institutions, citations and recommendations. Methods: The data retrieved from the Science Citation Index Expanded (January 04, 2021) using word “Cambodia” period 1972 ...

Aggregated journal-journal citations for 1999 are compared with similar data in the Journal Citation Reports 1998 of the Social Science Citation Index. In addition to indicating local change, probabilistic entropy measures enable us to analyze changes in distributions at different levels of aggregation. The indicators are compared by elaborating the journal-journal mappings and in relation to s...

This paper presents a scientometric study about information management. Both the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index were used to analyse the literature about information management by various criteria like journal subject category, origins of the authors, publication languages, chronological distribution. Furthermore, a citation analysis was conducted. On the basis of ...

background: in this study, the impact of self-citation (journal and author) on impact factor of iranian english medical journals in two international citation databases, web of science (wos) and islamic world science citation center (isc), were compared by citation analysis. methods: twelve journals in wos and 26 journals in isc databases indexed between the years (2006-2009) were selected and ...