Although the evaluation of knowledge in the form of a quantitation of scientific output is not uncontroversial, it is a widely practised form of science evaluation. For more than 30 years, the Science Citation Index (SCI) has been alone in fulfilling mis purpose. But since 2005 Scopus is a direct competitor to the SCI-databases. Comparing the two databases should help to answer questions that c...

Fuzzy decision-making consists in making decisions under complex and uncertain environments where the information can be assessed with fuzzy sets and systems. The aim of this study is to review the main contributions in this field by using a bibliometric approach. For doing so, the article uses a wide range of bibliometric indicators including the citations and the h-index. Moreover, it also us...

This paper analyses some of the most popular scientific journals in the Quality field from the point of view of three bibliometric indicators: the Hirsch (h) index for journals, the total number of citations and the h-spectrum. In particular, h-spectrum is a novel tool based on h, making it possible to (i) identify a reference profile of the typical authors of a journal; (ii) compare different ...

Objective. The purpose of this work is to analyse the knowledge structure and trends in scientific research in the Online Information Reviews journal by bibliometric analysis of key words and social network analysis of co-words. Methods.

Background: There is a paucity of information about the oral pathology related articles published in a pathology journal. This study aimed to audit the oral pathology related articles published in Iranian Journal of Pathology (Iran J Pathol)from 2006 to 2015. Methods: Bibliometric analysis of issues of Iran J Pathol from 2006 to 2015 was perf...

INTRODUCTION Publishing research results as journal articles is the most common format used by researchers for dissemination of advancements in science. To select where to publish, authors must know how to identify the most recognized journals in each field, adopting quality criteria. PURPOSE To discuss journal selection criteria and bibliometric indicators for evaluation of scientific produc...

Introduction Today prominent and comprehensive databases such as Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (WoS) or Elsevier’s Scopus are highly in use for bibliometric research. However, these databases do not index full texts hindering researchers to carry out more detailed analyses. Besides, it is possible that some indexed publications do not have DOI numbers playing an important role to access full ...

Scientific research needs lots of literature searches that cost a large amount of time and energy. Bibliometric techniques could help us find research hotspots and grasp the research direction yet can’t reveal huge hidden information in massive literature since the existing bibliometric analysis techniques employ mainly simple statistical analysis techniques. Hence, we propose to introduce data...