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

Citation impact indicators nowadays play an important role in research evaluation, and
consequently these indicators have received a lot of attention in the bibliometric and …

Bibliometrics is the study of academic publishing that uses statistics to describe publishing
trends and to highlight relationships between published works. Likened to epidemiology …

Citation metrics are widely used and misused. We have created a publicly available
database of 100,000 top scientists that provides standardized information on citations, h …

Characterizing the structure of knowledge, the evolution of research topics, and the
emergence of topics has always been an important part of information science (IS). Our …

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 …

With the rapid development of emerging technologies, research on technology adoption is
valuable for improving the reception efficiency of new technologies. This paper uses …

Since the relaunch of Microsoft Academic Services (MAS) 4 years ago, scholarly
communications have undergone dramatic changes: more ideas are being exchanged …

Here we present the first empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that a gender-
heterogeneous problem-solving team generally produced journal articles perceived to be …

Becoming Metric-Wise: A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers aims to inform researchers
about metrics so that they become aware of the evaluative techniques being applied to their …