Bibliometrics has the ambitious goal of measuring science. To this end, it exploits the way science is disseminated trough scientific publications and the resulting citation network of scientific papers. We survey the main historical contributions to the field, the most interesting bibliometric indicators, and the most popular bibliometric data sources. Moreover, we discuss distributions common...

nursing research in the middle east: a multi-layer bibliometric study rashidi a * received: 12 aug , 2013 accepted: 26 oct , 2013 abstract background & aims: nurses along with other clinical professions play important role on people's health around the world. however various bibliometric analysis in medical care have shown a notable level of sophistication, a few bibliometric analysis has ...

Bibliometric Evaluation vs. Informed Peer Review: Evidence from Italy A relevant question for the organization of large scale research assessments is whether bibliometric evaluation and informed peer review where reviewers know where the work was published, yield similar results. It would suggest, for instance, that less costly bibliometric evaluation might at least partly replace informed peer...

Bibliometrics has become an increasingly necessary tool for studying and analysing an institution's scientific activity. Research librarians must be able to extract, interpret and represent bibliometric data in different ways depending on the user to whom they are to be presented. In this article, we describe the process of creating a bibliometric data management and consultation tool, called B...

This chapter provides an introduction into the topic of visualizing bibliometric networks. First, the most commonly studied types of bibliometric networks (i.e., citation, co-citation, bibliographic coupling, keyword co-occurrence, and co-authorship networks) are discussed, and three popular visualization approaches (i.e., distance-based, graph-based, and timeline-based approaches) are distingu...

BACKGROUND The h index bibliometric indicator for evaluating scientists and scientific institutions plays an increasingly important role in evaluating contemporary scientific research, including chemistry. RESULTS Citations are meaningful. The best way of measuring performance is to use the informed peer review, where peers judge on the base of a bibliometric report, once the limits and advan...

Introduction The scientific community has developed many institutionalized forms of evaluation where peer review has an important role, but recently, bibliometric methods have been gaining some acceptability to assess the scientific performance. The two techniques have been related to one another in different ways: 1) bibliometric methods have been used to analyze the peer review processes (Moe...

BACKGROUND The peer review system has been traditionally challenged due to its many limitations especially for allocating funding. Bibliometric indicators may well present themselves as a complement. OBJECTIVE We analyze the relationship between peers' ratings and bibliometric indicators for Spanish researchers in the 2007 National R&D Plan for 23 research fields. METHODS AND MATERIALS We a...

This short note contains some remarks on a recent bibliometric survey about some of the major scientific journals in the field of Quality Engineering/Management (Qual. Reliab. Engng. Int. 2010; 26(6):593–604). In particular, thanks to Professor Woodall’s precious indication, it has been freshly noticed that some results in the original work are biased by mistakes in the bibliometric databases (...

The diversity of bibliometric indices today poses the challenge of exploiting the relationships among them. Our research uncovers the best core set of relevant indices for predicting other bibliometric indices. An added difficulty is to select the role of each variable, that is, which bibliometric indices are predictive variables and which are response variables. This results in a novel multiou...