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Lost in publication: how measurement harms science (2008, background): “Brian Friel, 1997: Give Me Your Answer, Do!”
Predicting Publication Success for Biologists (2013, methodology): “The h-index (Hirsch 2005) incorporates data on both citations and publications but was not consistently available for all researchers in our study (this is because Elsevier’s Scopus database, which we used to generate h-indexes, does not incorporate papers published prior to 1996).”
Universality of citation distributions: Toward an objective measure of scientific impact (2008, background): “Citation analysis is a bibliometric tool that is becoming increasingly popular to evaluate the performance of different actors in the academic and scientific arena, ranging from individual scholars [1, 2, 3], to journals, departments, universities [4] and national institutions [5] up to whole countr”
Citations, Citation Indicators, and Research Quality: An Overview of Basic Concepts and Theories (2019, methodology): “The h-index was introduced in 2005 (Hirsch, 2005) and rapidly became a very popular bibliometric measure.”