Bibliometrics and Impact Factor: Further Reading

Abbott, A., et al. (2010). Do metrics matter? Nature, 465(7300), 860-862. [Access for University of Utah students, faculty and staff through Academic search premier .]

Adler, R., Ewing, J., & Taylor, P. (2008). Citation statistics: a report from the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in coopeeration with the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Berlin: International Mathematical Union. [Open Access]

Ball, P. (2008). A longer paper gathers more citations. Nature, 455(7211), 274-275.

Browman, H.I., & Stergiou, K.I. (Eds.) (2008). Use and misuse of bibliometrics indices in evaluating scholarly performance [Special Issue]. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8(1).
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Laloe, F., & Mosseri, R. (2009). Bibliometric evaluation of individual researchers: not even right ... not even wrong. Europhysics News, 40(5), 26-29.
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Opatrny, T. (2008). Playing the system to give low impact journal more clout. Nature, 455(7210), 167. [Access for University of Utah students, faculty, and staff through Academic Search Premier]

Pudovkin, A.I., & Garfield, E. (2004). Rank-normalized impact factor: a way to compare journal performance across subject categories. Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 41, 507-515. [Access for University of Utah students, faculty, and staff through Wiley Online Library.]

Gray, E., & Hodkinson, S.Z. (2008, Summer). Comparison of Journal Citation Reports and Scopus impact factors and environmental sciences journals. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, Issue 54, Article 1. [Open Access]

Kulkami, A.V., et al. (2009). Comparison of citation in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar for articles published in general medical journals. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 302(10), 1092. [Freely Accessible through JAMA.]

Meho, L.I., & Yang, K. (2007). Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS facutly: Web of Science versus Scopus and Google Scholar. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(13), 2105-2125. [Access for University of Utah student, faculty, and staff through Wiley Online Library.]

Harzing, A.W.; Wal, R. van der (2008) Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis?, Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 61-73. [Open Access]

Van Noorden, R. (2010). Metrics: a profusion of measures. Nature, 465(7300), 864-866. [Available to University of Utah students, faculty and staff through Academic Search Premier]

Garfield, E. (1997). Concept of citation indexing: a unique and innovative tool for navigating the research literature. [Open Access]

Garfield, E. (2006). The history and meaning of the journal impact factor. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 295(1), 90-93. [Freely available through JAMA]

Garfield, E. (2006). The history and meaning of the journal impact factor. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 295(1), 90-93. [Freely available through JAMA]

Garfield, E. (2007). The evolution of the Science Citation Index. International Microbiology, 10(1), 65-69. [Open Access]

Garfield, E. (1997). Concept of citation indexing: a unique and innovative tool for navigating the research literature. [Open Access]

Moed, J.F. (2005). Citation analysis in research evaluation. Dordrecht: Springer. Available online to University of Utah students and faculty. No guest access

Gonzalez-Pereira, B., Guerrero-Bote, V.P., Moya-Anegon, F. (2009). The SJR indictor: a new indicator of journals' scientific prestige. Tech. Rep. arxiv:abs/0912.4141 [Open Access]

Priem, J., & Hemminger B.M. (2010). Scientometrics 2.0: toward new metrics of scholarly impact on the social web. First Monday, 15(7), article 2. [Open Access]

Rovner, S.L. (2008). The import of impact: new types of journal metrics grow more influential in the scientific community. Chemcial and Engineering News, 86(20), 39-42 [Open Access]

Schreiber, M. (2008). An empirical investigation of the g-index for 26 physicists in comparison with the h-index, the A-index, and the R-index. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(9), 1513-1522. [Available to University of Utah students, faculty and staff through Wiley Online Library]

Schreiber, M. (2008). The influence of self-citation corrections on Egghe's g index. Scientometrics, 76(1), 187-200. [Available to University of Utah students, faculty and staff.]

Van Leeuwen, T. (2008). Testing the validity of the Hirsch-index for research assessment purposes. Research Evaluation, 17(2), 157-160. [Available to University of Utah students, faculty and staff.]