In recent years, several scientometrics and bibliometrics indicators were proposed to
evaluate the scientific impact of individuals, institutions, colleges, universities and research …

Policy makers, academic administrators, scholars, and members of the public are clamoring
for indicators of the value and reach of research. The question of how to quantify the impact …

Citation analysis—the exploration of reference patterns in the scholarly and scientific
literature—has long been applied in a number of social sciences to study research impact …

Becoming Metric-Wise: A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers aims to inform researchers
about metrics so that they become aware of the evaluative techniques being applied to their …

The Covid-19 pandemic has been the highest disruptive event in the world recent history.
Worldwide academic research on this topic has led to an explosion of scientific literature …

This study continues a long history of author cocitation analysis (and more recently, author
bibliographic coupling analysis) of the intellectual structure of information science (IS) into …

Research papers not only involve author collaboration networks but also relate to
knowledge networks. Previous research claims that a paper's citations are related to the …

The citation impact of a scientific publication is usually seen as a one-dimensional concept.
We introduce a multidimensional framework for characterizing the citation impact of a …

Background Although being a simple and effective index that has been widely used to
evaluate academic output of scientists, the h-index suffers from drawbacks. One critical …

In this chapter, a survey of the literature related to the h-index (referred to as h-related
literature) between 2005 and 2016 is presented. In the first section, the basic definitions and …