Introduction As it was emphasized by Moed, H.F., Glänzel W. & Schmoch U. (2005) in their editors’ introduction to the Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research: "A most important data source for analysis of the science system is the Science Citation Index (SCI) and related Citation Indexes published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI–Thomson Scientific, Philadelphia...

Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (WoS) began systematically collecting acknowledgment information in August 2008. Since then, bibliometric analysis of funding acknowledgment (FA) has been growing and has aroused intense interest and attention from both academia and policy makers. Examining the distribution of FA by citation index database, by language, and by acknowledgment type, we noted covera...

This study deals with the analysis of cited references in Web of Science (WoS) to e-prints on arXiv. Created in 1991, arXiv accelerated the scholarly communication and developed into a well-established e-print repository that functions as an essential access point to the latest research in physics, astrophysics, mathematics, computer science and related fields. Authors evidently rely on arXiv f...

In a recent letter, Carlos Vilchez-Román criticizes Bornmann et al. (2015) for using data which cannot be reproduced without access to an in-house version of the Web-of-Science (WoS) at the Max Planck Digital Libraries (MPDL, Munich). We agree with the norm of replicability and therefore returned to our data. Is the problem only a practical one of automation or does the inhouse processing add a...

Background: The purpose of this scientometric investigation was to analyze some features of the international scientific communications in the field of the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea. Methods: The publication output on this interdisciplinary topic that had been reflected in three data-bases (Web of Science, MEDLINE and Scopus) for the period from 2009 till 2013 was analyzed. The follo...

objective(s): citation tracking is an important method to analyze the scientific impact of journal articles and can be done through scopus (sc), google scholar (gs), or isi web of knowledge (wos). in the current study, we analyzed the citations to 2011-2012 articles of iranian journal of basic medical sciences (ijbms) in these three resources.   material and methods: the relevant data from sc, ...

This paper studies the correlations between peer review and citation indicators when evaluating research quality in library and information science (LIS). Forty two LIS experts provided judgments on a five-point scale of the quality of research published by 101 scholars; the median rankings resulting from these judgments were then correlated with h-, gand H-index values computed using three dif...

Research impact of paywalled versus open access papers" This note presents data from the 1science OAIndx on the average of relative citations (ARC) for 3.3 million papers published from 2007 to 2009 and indexed in the Web of Science (WoS). These data show a decidedly large citation advantage for open access (OA) papers, despite them suffering from a lag in availability compared to paywalled pap...