The Rise and Rise of Citation Analysis

Meho, Lokman I.

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Meho, Lokman I.

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2007-01

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2006-12-31

Keywords

Data Mining
Databases
Research Methods
Citation Analysis
Co-citation Analysis
Bibliometrics
Web Metrics
Scholarly Communication
Database Searching Instructions
Informetrics

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citation analysis
bibliomtrics
informetrics
databases
citation databases
Web of Science
Scopus
Google Scholar
scholarly communication

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The Rise and Rise of Citation Analysis 2007-01,

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Accepted for publication in Physics World (January 2007)

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http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105963

Abstract

With the vast majority of scientific papers now available online, this paper (accepted for publication in Physics World) describes how the Web is allowing physicists and information providers to measure more accurately the impact of these papers and their authors. Provides a historical background of citation analysis, impact factor, new citation data sources (e.g., Google Scholar, Scopus, NASA's Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, MathSciNet, ScienceDirect, SciFinder Scholar, Scitation/SPIN, and SPIRES-HEP), as well as h-index, g-index, and a-index.