Measuring Academic Research ：How to Undertake a Bibliometric Study

Publication subTitle ：How to Undertake a Bibliometric Study

Author： Andres Ana

Publisher： Elsevier Science‎

Publication year： 2009

E-ISBN: 9781780630182

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781843345299

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781843345299

Subject： G25 Library Science

Keyword：信息与知识传播

Language： ENG

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Description

Measuring Academic Research outlines how to undertake a bibliometric study, a topic of vital importance in academic research today. Scientometrics studies assess scientific productivity and can be applied to all disciplines. Many analyses have been applied in relation to bibliometric studies, but few have shown how to actually carry out the analysis. This book provides a guide on how to develop a bibliometric study, from the first step in which the topic study has to be set, to the analysis and interpretation.

A practical and easy to read guide on how to carry out a bibliometric study
Gives a wide and up-to-date view about the most common scientometric indexes
Analyses are illustrated with multiple and practical examples about their application

Chapter

Cover

Measuring Academic Research: How to undertake a bibliometric study

Dedication

Contents

List of figures and tables

About the author

1 Introduction

Bibliometrics: a science of science

Little Science, Big Science

Contemporary science

The ‘end’ of science and the obsolescence of literature

A closer look at bibliometric analysis

2 Descriptive analyses

Temporal evolution

Number of authors

Institutions and countries

Other indicators

3 Author production

Lotka’s law

How to apply Lotka’s law

4 Journal productivity

Bradford’s law

Bradford’s S-shape

How to apply Bradford’s law

Journal ranks

A common feature of Lotka’s and Bradford’s laws

5 Scientific collaborations

Collaboration index

National and international collaborations

Co-authorship index

Research networks

Invisible colleges

Note

6 Author citation analysis

Why is studying citations of interest?

Citation life

Author self-citations

Hirsch index

g-index

Co-citation analysis

Citations and research groups

7 Journal citation analysis

Immediacy index

Journal impact factor

Journal h-index

Journal self-citations

Journal cited and citing half-life

Eigenfactor metrics

Relationships between journals and areas

Relatedness index

8 Important considerations

Citation count

Impact factor and other impact indices

Possible solutions to citation count and impact factor indices

Hirsch index

Possible solutions to the h-index

9 Final considerations

Beyond the Web of Science: Scopus and Google Scholar

Current position of multidisciplinary databases

Final thoughts

References

Index