The advent of large-scale datasets that trace the workings of science has encouraged
researchers from many different disciplinary backgrounds to turn scientific methods into …

This article surveys topic distributions of the academic literature that employs the terms
bibliometrics, scientometrics, and informetrics. This exploration allows informing on the …

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 …

Background Academics in all disciplines increasingly use social media to share their
publications on the internet, reaching out to different audiences. In the last few years …

The under-attribution of women's contributions to scientific scholarship is well known and
well studied. One measure of this under-attribution is the citation gap between men and …

Richard E. Rubin's book has served as the authoritative introductory text for generations of
library and information science practitioners, with each new edition taking in its stride the …

Recent research reveals that the social media usage has been rapidly increased in higher
education. Yet we know a little about the consequences of social media use among …

In this study, we address the question whether (and to what extent, respectively) altmetrics
are related to the scientific quality of papers (as measured by peer assessments). Only a few …

Research is a highly competitive profession where evaluation plays a central role; journals
are ranked and individuals are evaluated based on their publication number, the number of …

Altmetrics have been proposed as a way to assess the societal impact of research. Although
altmetrics are already in use as impact or attention metrics in different contexts, it is still not …