The following provides a more in-depth view of some selected research initiatives over the years 2006-2016, their impacts on the field, along with some associated publication metrics using Google Scholar. As in all the modeling studies I conduct, an extensive literature search and synthesis was carried out and appropriate modeling functions were carefully formulated to best reflect the biology....

In this issue, not without some embarrassment, we digest a contribution from our own. The main objective of this study is to ascertain the presence and visibility of Latin American repositories in Google and Google Scholar through the application of page count and visibility indicators. For a sample of 127 repositories, the results indicate that the indexing ratio is low in Google, and virtuall...

BACKGROUND Information overload, increasing time constraints, and inappropriate search strategies complicate the detection of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). The aim of this study was to provide clinicians with recommendations for search strategies to efficiently identify relevant CPGs in SUMSearch and Google Scholar. METHODS We compared the retrieval efficiency (retrieval performance) o...

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The editors were recently made aware that a paper published in Entropy in 2003 [1] exhibited characteristics of duplication and self-plagiarism. After investigating the matter, and discussing the situation with the authors, they have offered to retract this paper. In particular, authors reused parts of their previous publications that appeared in Open Systems & Information Dynamics [2], Applied...

The purpose of this editorial note was to conduct a citation analysis of the Webology journal in order to show the journal impact factor, h-index, i10-index, i20-index, and patent citations. This note indicates to what extent the Webology journal is used and cited by the international scientific community. The results show that the total number of citations to Webology papers on Google Scholar ...

Citation indicators are increasingly used in book-based disciplines to support peer-review in the evaluation of authors and to gauge the prestige of publishers. However, since global citation databases seem to offer weak coverage of books outside the West, it is not clear whether the influence of non-Western books can be assessed with citations. To investigate this, citations were extracted fro...

We deal with a problem faced by scholars every day: identifying relevant papers on a given topic. In particular, we focus on the scenario where a scholar can come up with a few papers (e.g., suggested by a colleague) and then wants to find “all” the other related publications. Our proposed approach to the problem is based on the concept of keyqueries: formulating keyqueries from the input paper...

Purpose: The single publication h index has been introduced by Schubert (2009) as the h index calculated for the list of citing publications of one single publication. Approach: In this paper, we present a Web application where the single publication h index and related performance measures (the single publication m index, h 2 lower, h 2 center, and h 2 upper) can be automatically calculated fo...

In this paper we describe a system for visualizing and analyzing worldwide research topics, rtopmap. We gather data from google scholar academic research profiles, putting together a weighted topics graph, consisting of over 35,000 nodes and 646,000 edges. The nodes correspond to self-reported research topics, and edges correspond to cooccurring topics in google scholar profiles. The rtopmap sy...