Bibliometric indexes are customary used in evaluating the impact of scientific research, even though it is very well known that in different research areas they may range in very different intervals. Sometimes, this is evident even within a single given field of investigation making very difficult (and inaccurate) the assessment of scientific papers. On the other hand, the problem can be recast...

To develop search filters and retrieve information estimating the Croatian scientific output (SO) focusing on Public Health (PH) and Preventive Medicine (PM) in MEDLINE. A PubMed search of the MEDLINE database was performed to retrieve articles added to this database between 2000 and 2007. Search filters inspired by previous strategies were applied involving 'geographical', 'place of publicatio...

The British controversy over the validity of Urquhart’s and Garfield’s Laws during the 1970s constitutes an important episode in the formulation of the probability structure of human knowledge. This controversy took place within the historical context of the convergence of two scientific revolutions—the bibliometric and the biometric—that had been launched in Britain. The preceding decades had ...

Journal classification systems play an important role in bibliometric analyses. The two most important bibliographic databases, Web of Science and Scopus, each provide a journal classification system. However, no study has systematically investigated the accuracy of these classification systems. To examine and compare the accuracy of journal classification systems, we BLOCKIN

The evaluation of science uses a variety of bibliometric indicators mostly based on citations despite not having an unequivocal relationship between citations and scientific quality. These indicators however, encompass more than an indication of visibility, relevance and impact of the articles and may represent in a researcher’s career prestige, job opportunities, career promotion, awards, rese...

This paper aims to develop a method integrating techniques: Content Analysis, Bibliometric Analysis, Social Network Analysis and Concept Mapping in a Systematic Literature Review Environment. The application of the method will occur in the area of Industrial Energy Efficiency. This paper hopes to contribute with the field of Research Methodology. Key-words – Systematic Literature Review, Conten...

This paper describes the application of data mining techniques for eludicating patterns and trends in technological innovation. Specifically, we focus on the use of bibliometric methods, viz techniques which focus on trends in the publication of text documents rather than the content of these documents. Of particular interest is the relationship between publication patterns, as characterized by...

This work stems from the idea of describing the scientific productivity of Italian statisticians. There are several problems that must be addressed in achieving this goal:What data should be used? Have the data been cleaned?What techniques can be used?We propose the use ofmultiple sources andmultiplemetrics to get a complete information base. We check the correctness of the data using multivari...