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The h -index is defined as the maximum value of h such that the given author/journal has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times. [4] [5] The index is designed to improve upon simpler measures such as the total number of citations or publications. The index works best when comparing scholars working in the same ...
Scopus. Scopus is an abstract and citation database launched by the academic publisher Elsevier in 2004. [1] Journals in Scopus are reviewed for sufficient quality each year according to four numerical measures: h -Index, CiteScore, SJR ( SCImago Journal Rank) and SNIP ( source normalized impact per paper ).
Author-level metrics are citation metrics that measure the bibliometric impact of individual authors, researchers, academics, and scholars. Many metrics have been developed that take into account varying numbers of factors (from only considering the total number of citations, to looking at their distribution across papers or journals using statistical or graph-theoretic principles).
926725318. ResearcherID is an identifying system for scientific authors. The system was introduced in January 2008 by Thomson Reuters Corporation . This unique identifier aims at solving the problem of author identification and correct attribution of works. In scientific and academic literature it is common to cite name, surname, and initials ...
The main academic full-text databases are open archives or link-resolution services, although others operate under different models such as mirroring or hybrid publishers. Such services typically provide access to full text and full-text search, but also metadata about items for which no full text is available.
Citation impact or citation rate is a measure of how many times an academic journal article or book or author is cited by other articles, books or authors. Citation counts are interpreted as measures of the impact or influence of academic work and have given rise to the field of bibliometrics or scientometrics, specializing in the study of patterns of academic impact through citation analysis.
Scientometrics. Scientometrics is a subfield of informetrics that studies quantitative aspects of scholarly literature. Major research issues include the measurement of the impact of research papers and academic journals, the understanding of scientific citations, and the use of such measurements in policy and management contexts. [1]
Starting in March 2009, the Public Library of Science introduced article-level metrics for all articles. [3] The open access publisher PLOS provides article level metrics for all of its journals [4] including downloads, citations, and altmetrics. [5] In March 2014 it was announced that COUNTER statistics, which measure usage of online scholarly ...