Is citation analysis a legitimate evaluation tool?

By Eugene Garfield. Scientometrics, 2005

648 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science, Statistics and Probability

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Citations, Citation Indicators, and Research Quality: An Overview of Basic Concepts and Theories (2019, background): “As an example, Garfield (1979a) early emphasized that “Instead of directly comparing the citation counts of, say, a mathematician against that of a biochemist, both should be ranked with their peers, and the comparison should be made between rankings” (p. 367).”
Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Citation/Co-citation Analysis (2019, neutral): “Bibliometric analyses are attractive due to their unobtrusive and objective nature (Garfield 1979).”
Social Entrepreneurship: An exploratory citation analysis (2013, background): “Furthermore it is assumed that bibliographical references reflect interconnections between scholars and make conjunctions of scientific conceptions visible (Small 1978; Garfield 1979).”
Thinking inside the box? Intellectual structure of the knowledge base of innovation research (1988–2008) (2013, methodology): “Bibliometrics uses citations and co-citations as indicators of scientific communication and flows of knowledge among domains and disciplines (Small, 1973, 1978; Garfield, 1979; Lievrouw, 1989).”
Franchising research on emerging markets: Bibliometric and content analyses (2021, background): “Using transparent, reproducible search and review processes increases the reliability of the results and reduces the subjective bias of the literature reviews (Garfield, 1979; Maditati et al., 2018; Zupic & Čater, 2015).”
An integrated approach for main path analysis: Development of the Hirsch index as an example (2012, background): “Garfield et al. (1964) established a citation network of DNA publications and then traced the significant publications based on their citation counts. The set of DNA publications that they investigated was small (40 publications) such that the task was manageable. Presently, the accumulated publicat”
Bibliometric Methods in Management and Organization (2015, neutral): “They introduce a measure of objectivity into the evaluation of scientific literature (Garfield, 1979) and can be used to detect informal research networks, i.e. “invisible colleges”, which exist under the surface but are not formally linked (Crane, 1972; Price, 1965).”