Citations are increasingly used as performance indicators in research policy and within the
research system. Usually, citations are assumed to reflect the impact of the research or its …

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

This is the first comprehensive overview of the'science of science,'an emerging
interdisciplinary field that relies on big data to unveil the reproducible patterns that govern …

Purpose This study aims to review the progress of research on artificial intelligence (AI)
relating to the hospitality and tourism industry, focusing on the content, focal points, key …

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 …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present a narrative review of studies on the citing
behavior of scientists, covering mainly research published in the last 15 years. Based on the …

Bibliometric studies are increasingly being used for research assessment. Bibliometric
indicators are strongly methodology‐dependent but for all of them, various types of data …

Researchers are used to being evaluated: publications, hiring, tenure and funding decisions
are all based on the evaluation of research. Traditionally, this evaluation relied on …

We begin with a short history of measuring science and discuss how the Science Citation
Index has revolutionized the quantitative study of science and created a strong application …

After a review of developments in the quantitative study of science, particularly since the
early 1970s, I focus on two current main lines of 'measuring science'based on bibliometric …