This paper aims to inform choice of citation time window for research evaluation, by
answering three questions:(1) How accurate is it to use citation counts in short time windows …

With the passage of more time from the original date of publication, the measure of the
impact of scientific works using subsequent citation counts becomes more accurate …

The present paper addresses some of the many possible uses of citations, including
bookmark, intellectual heritage, impact tracker, and self-serving purposes. The main focus is …

Abstract The findings of Bornmann, Leydesdorff, and Wang (2013b) revealed that the
consideration of journal impact improves the prediction of long-term citation impact. This …

In bibliometrics, the association of “impact” with central‐tendency statistics is mistaken.
Impacts add up, and citation curves therefore should be integrated instead of averaged. For …

Most scientometricians reject the use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual
articles and their authors. The well-known San Francisco Declaration on Research …

Citation frequency is often used in hiring and tenure decisions as an indicator of the quality
of a researcher's publications. In this paper, we examine the influence of discipline …

This paper reviews a range of studies conducted by the authors on indicators reflecting
scholarly journal impact. A critical examination of the journal impact data in the Journal …

Not all highly cited papers have the same citation life cycle curves, ie curves of frequency of
citations received vs. time. The citation life of ten randomly selected Citation Classics, five in …

A fundamental problem in citation analysis is the prediction of the long-term citation impact
of recent publications. We propose a model to predict a probability distribution for the future …