Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate
perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation and university …

The journal impact factor (IF) exerts a tremendous influence on the conduct of scientists. The
obsession with IF has been compared to a medical condition, sometimes referred to as “IF …

Among the most recent bibliometric indicators for normalizing the differences among fields of
science in terms of citation behaviour, Kosmulski (J Informetr 5 (3): 481–485,) proposed the …

The uncitedness phenomenon was noticed in the 1960s, and Hamilton's seminal paper in
1991 on uncitedness provoked debate about uncited scientific work. Uncitedness is usually …

Ethics, entrepreneurship, and governance are very essential and crucial for the sustainable
development of institutions of higher education, especially in the face of moral ambiguity or …

Altmetrics are increasingly playing a role in hel** scholars illustrate their scholarly impact.
One altmetric involves citations in syllabi or analyzing the way journal literature is presented …

This chapter discusses the literature on plagiarism and aims at hel** readers better
understand what plagiarism is, what is at stake, and how to fight intellectual dishonesty. First …

Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: Uses and Abuses. YvesGingras. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2016. 136 pp. $26.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780262035125: Journal of the Association for …

Here, we describe the percentage of non-citation in Brazilian public health journals, a field
that, until now, had not been investigated nationally or internationally. We analyzed articles …