Citation Analysis in Research EvaluationThis book is written for members of the scholarly research community, and for persons involved in research evaluation and research policy. More specifically, it is directed towards the following four main groups of readers: – All scientists and scholars who have been or will be subjected to a quantitative assessment of research performance using citation analysis. – Research policy makers and managers who wish to become conversant with the basic features of citation analysis, and about its potentialities and limitations. – Members of peer review committees and other evaluators, who consider the use of citation analysis as a tool in their assessments. – Practitioners and students in the field of quantitative science and technology studies, informetrics, and library and information science. Citation analysis involves the construction and application of a series of indicators of the ‘impact’, ‘influence’ or ‘quality’ of scholarly work, derived from citation data, i.e. data on references cited in footnotes or bibliographies of scholarly research publications. Such indicators are applied both in the study of scholarly communication and in the assessment of research performance. The term ‘scholarly’ comprises all domains of science and scholarship, including not only those fields that are normally denoted as science – the natural and life sciences, mathematical and technical sciences – but also social sciences and humanities. |
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active applied basic biases bibliometric indicators cent Chapter chemistry citation analysis citation counts citation impact indicator citation rates citations measure cited documents cited items cited papers cited references contributions database denoted developed disciplines discrepancies domestic authors entities Eugene Garfield extent field Garfield Glänzel highly cited important included institutions intellectual influence ISI Citation Indexes ISI Indexes ISI journal ISI source journals journal categories journal impact factors journals processed Leiden University methodologies Netherlands non-ISI normalised citation impact number of papers particular peer ratings peer review percentage perspective presented publication output publication productivity quantitative science Raan reference lists referencing research assessment exercises research departments research evaluation research groups research performance research quality role scholarly communication science and technology Science Citation Index sciences and humanities scientific scientists Scientometrics self-citation social sciences source articles statistics subfields Table take into account tend Thomson Scientific total number valid Web of Science