Citation impact indicators nowadays play an important role in research evaluation, and
consequently these indicators have received a lot of attention in the bibliometric and …

Evaluating scientific research has always been difficult. The peer-review process, which has
been the mainstay of science evaluation for nearly a century, takes time, expertise, and no …

The 21st century has seen the launch of new space-borne sensors based on LiDAR (light
detection and ranging) technology developed in the second half of the 20th century …

This paper aims to inform choice of citation time window for research evaluation, by
answering three questions:(1) How accurate is it to use citation counts in short time windows …

The ability to predict the long-term impact of a scientific article soon after its publication is of
great value towards accurate assessment of research performance. In this work we test the …

This paper investigates the data accumulation velocity of 12 Altmetric. com data sources.
DOI created date recorded by Crossref and altmetric event posted date tracked by Altmetric …

Empirical evidence shows that co-authored publications achieve higher visibility and impact.
The aim of the current work is to test for the existence of a similar correlation for Italian …

The intention of this work is to analyze top scientists' collaboration behavior at the
“international”,“domestic extramural” and “intramural” levels, and compare it to that of their …

Although bibliometrics has been a separate research field for many years, there is still no
uniformity in the way bibliometric analyses are applied to individual researchers. Therefore …

The total area of plastic-covered crops of 3019 million hectares has been increasing steadily
around the world, particularly in the form of crops maintained under plastic-covered …