Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify some issues regarding citation indexing, analysis and searching. Design/methodology/approach – The paper begins with a discussion on an article in the D-Lib Magazine and then focuses on deflated citation counts and inflated and phantom citation counts. Findings – The combination of the inflated citation count values dispensed by Google Scholar (...

The large amount of information contained in bibliographic databases has recently boosted the use of citations, and other indicators based on citation numbers, as tools for the quantitative assessment of scientific research. Citations counts are often interpreted as proxies for the scientific influence of papers, journals, scholars, and institutions. However, a rigorous and scientifically groun...

Citation is considered as the most popular quality assessment metric for scientific papers, and it thus important to determine what factors promote citation count of a paper in comparison others same field. The main aim this study model counts research published SCI or SCI-Expanded journals Statistics field with growing number works Turkey. It well known that right-skewed nature makes classical...