Scientometrics in a changing research landscape: Bibliometrics has become an integral part of research quality evaluation and has been changing the practice of research

EMBO Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1228-1232

  Bornmann, Lutz ^a   Leydesdorff, Loet ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; NATURAL SCIENCE; PEER REVIEW; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIST; SCIENTOMETRICS; SOCIOLOGY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; RESEARCH;

EID: 84915804338     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201439608     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Diekmann A, Naf M, Schubiger M, (2012) The impact of (Thyssen)-awarded articles in the scientific community. Kölner Z Soz Sozialpsychol 64: 563-581
2. Luhmann N, (1992) Die Wissenschaft der Gesellschaft. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Suhrkamp
3. Bornmann L, Marx W, (2014) How to evaluate individual researchers working in the natural and life sciences meaningfully? A proposal of methods based on percentiles of citations. Scientometrics 98: 487-509
4. Bornmann L, Marx W, Schier H, Rahm E, Thor A, Daniel HD, (2009) Convergent validity of bibliometric Google Scholar data in the field of chemistry. Citation counts for papers that were accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition or rejected but published elsewhere, using Google Scholar, Science Citation Index, Scopus, and Chemical Abstracts. J Inform 3: 27-35
5. van Raan AFJ, (2004) Sleeping beauties in science. Scientometrics 59: 467-472
6. Wang J, (2013) Citation time window choice for research impact evaluation. Scientometrics 94: 851-872
7. Baumgartner SE, Leydesdorff L, (2014) Group-based trajectory modeling (GBTM) of citations in scholarly literature: dynamic qualities of "transient" and "sticky knowledge claims". J Assoc Inf Sci Technol 65: 797-811
8. Shao J, Shen H, (2011) The outflow of academic papers from China: why is it happening and can it be stemmed? Learned Publishing 24: 95-97
9. Marx W, Bornmann L, (2014) On the causes of subject-specific citation rates in Web of Science. Scientometrics (in press)