Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the results of recent experiments in determining the h-index at the country level for the 10 Ibero-American countries of South America. Design/methodology/approach – The three citation index components (Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index) of the Web of Science system of Thomson-Reuters and...

I was inoculated with Citation Fever shortly after coming to Yale and delivering the lectures that became Science Since Babylon (1961). In those days, the early 1960s, the National Science Foundation had a Science Information Council, which was supposed to advise and consult on policy questions concerned with funding the scientflc literature. One may question how much impact we had on policy, b...

This study examines the differences between Scopus and Web of Science in the citation counting, citation ranking, and h-index of 22 top human-computer interaction (HCI) researchers from EQUATOR—a large British Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration project. Results indicate that Scopus provides significantly more coverage of HCI literature than Web of Science, primarily due to coverage of rel...

WEB OF SCIENCE Data for this project are drawn from Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science database, covering the Science Citation Index Expanded, the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. All articles from 2008 to 2012 were included in the analysis. The raw data were transformed into a relational database on an SQL server, hosted at Observatoire des sciences et de...