the aim of the present research is to study scientometric indicators (the number of articles and citations, the mean citation per paper, h-index, y-index, and the national and international collaboration) of medical and non-medical highly cited papers of iran in the essential science indicators (esi). the research population is all highly cited articles of iran in esi during 2005 to 2015. data ...

Introduction The enlarged coverage of the international publication and citation databases Web of Science and Scopus towards local media in social sciences was a welcome response to an increased usage of these databases in evaluation and funding systems. The mostly international journals available earlier were the basis for the development of current standard bibliometric indicators. The same i...

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When comparing the average citation impact of research groups, universities and countries, field normalisation reduces the influence of discipline and time. Confidence intervals for these indicators can help with attempts to infer whether differences between sets of publications are due to chance factors. Although both bootstrapping and formulae have been proposed for these, their accuracy is u...