Citation Indexing, Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities

Citation Indexing, Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities
Author: Eugene Garfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1983
Genre: Law
ISBN:

A conceptual view of citation indexing; A historical view of citation indexing; The design and production of a citation index; The application of citation indexing to the patent literature; The citation index as a search tool; A science management tool; Citation analysis as a method of historical research into science; Mapping the structure of science; Citation analysis of sientific journals; Perspective on citation analysis of scientists.

Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation

Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation
Author: Henk F. Moed
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2006-03-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1402037147

This 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.

Index to Scientific Reviews

Index to Scientific Reviews
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 838
Release: 1974*
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Semiannual. "An international interdisciplinary index to the review literature of science, medicine, agriculture, technology, and the behavioral sciences". Includes literature appearing in about 75 full coverage source journals, articles with 40 or more references, and marked review references in Science citation index data base. SCI format, with citation, source, permuterm, corporate, patent, and anonymous indexes; also journal lists.

Springer Handbook of Science and Technology Indicators

Springer Handbook of Science and Technology Indicators
Author: Wolfgang Glänzel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1103
Release: 2019-10-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 303002511X

This handbook presents the state of the art of quantitative methods and models to understand and assess the science and technology system. Focusing on various aspects of the development and application of indicators derived from data on scholarly publications, patents and electronic communications, the individual chapters, written by leading experts, discuss theoretical and methodological issues, illustrate applications, highlight their policy context and relevance, and point to future research directions. A substantial portion of the book is dedicated to detailed descriptions and analyses of data sources, presenting both traditional and advanced approaches. It addresses the main bibliographic metrics and indexes, such as the journal impact factor and the h-index, as well as altmetric and webometric indicators and science mapping techniques on different levels of aggregation and in the context of their value for the assessment of research performance as well as their impact on research policy and society. It also presents and critically discusses various national research evaluation systems. Complementing the sections reflecting on the science system, the technology section includes multiple chapters that explain different aspects of patent statistics, patent classification and database search methods to retrieve patent-related information. In addition, it examines the relevance of trademarks and standards as additional technological indicators. The Springer Handbook of Science and Technology Indicators is an invaluable resource for practitioners, scientists and policy makers wanting a systematic and thorough analysis of the potential and limitations of the various approaches to assess research and research performance.

Research Analytics

Research Analytics
Author: Francisco J. Cantu-Ortiz
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2017-10-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498786383

The growth of machines and users of the Internet has led to the proliferation of all sorts of data concerning individuals, institutions, companies, governments, universities, and all kinds of known objects and events happening everywhere in daily life. Scientific knowledge is not an exception to the data boom. The phenomenon of data growth in science pushes forth as the number of scientific papers published doubles every 9–15 years, and the need for methods and tools to understand what is reported in scientific literature becomes evident. As the number of academicians and innovators swells, so do the number of publications of all types, yielding outlets of documents and depots of authors and institutions that need to be found in Bibliometric databases. These databases are dug into and treated to hand over metrics of research performance by means of Scientometrics that analyze the toil of individuals, institutions, journals, countries, and even regions of the world. The objective of this book is to assist students, professors, university managers, government, industry, and stakeholders in general, understand which are the main Bibliometric databases, what are the key research indicators, and who are the main players in university rankings and the methodologies and approaches that they employ in producing ranking tables. The book is divided into two sections. The first looks at Scientometric databases, including Scopus and Google Scholar as well as institutional repositories. The second section examines the application of Scientometrics to world-class universities and the role that Scientometrics can play in competition among them. It looks at university rankings and the methodologies used to create these rankings. Individual chapters examine specific rankings that include: QS World University Scimago Institutions Webometrics U-Multirank U.S. News & World Report The book concludes with a discussion of university performance in the age of research analytics.

FSTA Thesaurus

FSTA Thesaurus
Author:
Publisher: IFIS Publishing
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0860141713

The FSTA Thesaurus is an invaluable search aid for users of the FSTA database, and an excellent reference tool for food and nutrition libraries. This eighth edition contains 10,246 carefully chosen keywords that relate to the fields of food science, food technology and food-related human nutrition, and includes the Latin names of many microbial, plant and animal species. For more information on the products and services from IFIS Publishing visit our website, www.foodsciencecentral.com.

Measuring Research

Measuring Research
Author: Cassidy R. Sugimoto
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2018
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0190640111

Policy makers, academic administrators, scholars, and members of the public are clamoring for indicators of the value and reach of research. The question of how to quantify the impact and importance of research and scholarly output, from the publication of books and journal articles to the indexing of citations and tweets, is a critical one in predicting innovation, and in deciding what sorts of research is supported and whom is hired to carry it out. There is a wide set of data and tools available for measuring research, but they are often used in crude ways, and each have their own limitations and internal logics. Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) will provide, for the first time, an accessible account of the methods used to gather and analyze data on research output and impact. Following a brief history of scholarly communication and its measurement -- from traditional peer review to crowdsourced review on the social web -- the book will look at the classification of knowledge and academic disciplines, the differences between citations and references, the role of peer review, national research evaluation exercises, the tools used to measure research, the many different types of measurement indicators, and how to measure interdisciplinarity. The book also addresses emerging issues within scholarly communication, including whether or not measurement promotes a "publish or perish" culture, fraud in research, or "citation cartels." It will also look at the stakeholders behind these analytical tools, the adverse effects of these quantifications, and the future of research measurement.