The Rise and Rise of Citation Analysis

By Lokman I. Meho. arXiv.org, 2006

370 citations recorded by the source corpus.

With the vast majority of scientific papers now available online, the author describes how the Web is allowing physicists and information providers to measure more accurately the impact of these papers and their authors. Provides a historical background of citation analysis, ISI's citation databases, and the impact factor. Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Web of Science and other more recent citation data sources (e.g., Scopus and Google Scholar), the impact of the Web on citation analysis, and the emergence of new citation-based research assessment measures (e.g., h-index). Argues that the use of multiple Web-based citation tools allows more accurate visualizations of scholarly communication networks. Also argues that publishing a journal article is now only the first step in disseminating one's work.

Subfields: Information Systems, Statistics and Probability

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Negative results are disappearing from most disciplines and countries (2011, background): “Individual scientists, research institutions, countries, international organizations, and scientific journals are increasingly evaluated based on the numbers of papers they publish and citations they receive (Shelton et al. 2009; Meho 2007; Nicolini and Nozza 2008; King 2004).”
Web of Science use in published research and review papers 1997–2017: a selective, dynamic, cross-domain, content-based analysis (2017, methodology): “As is well documented elsewhere, the ‘‘impact factor’’ is the measure adopted in the InCites Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for SCI and SSCI (Garﬁeld 1977, 2007; Meho 2007).”
Library 2.0: A guide to participatory library service (2008, neutral): “That means that when computing the h(2) index using a publication set put together for a scientist using Web of Science data (Thomson Scientific), less work is needed to check the accuracy of the publications data, especially with regard to homographs—that is, to distinguish between scientists that ”
The rate of growth in scientific publication and the decline in coverage provided by Science Citation Index (2010, methodology): “The use of Google Scholar as a citation source involves many problems ( Meho 2006; ”