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This guide covers search techniques and resources that offer the ability to search the list of references (or footnotes) found in journal articles, books, websites, etc.
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Citation Analysis Methods             Print Page
  
 

Methods

  • Eigenfactor  
      
    Eigenfactor ranks journals much as Google ranks websites. Scholarly references join journals together in a vast network of citations. Eigenfactor uses the structure of the entire network to evaluate journals.
  • g-index  
      
    The g-index was introduced as an improvement of the h-index of Hirsch to measure the global

    citation performance of a set of articles.
  • Hirsch Index a.k.a. h-index  
      
    Wikipedia article explaining the basics of the H-index. This metric is useful because it discounts the disproportionate weight of highly cited papers or papers that have not yet been cited.
  • Journal Impact Factor  
      
    Wikipedia overview of impact factors. "Impact factors have a huge, but controversial, influence on the way published scientific research is perceived and evaluated."
  • SCImago Journal & Country Rank  
      
    This portal includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database. These indicators could be used to assess and analyze scientific domains, similar to Google PageRank.
 
 

Further Readings

 

Antonakis, John and Rafael Lalive. 2008. "Quantifying scholarly impact: IQp Versus the h index." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 50(6): 956-969. Available on the web to ISU affiliated users:  http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/117906366/abstract

Bergstrom, C.T. 2007. "Eigenfactor: Measuring the value and prestige of scholarly journals". C&RL News 68 (5). Available free on the web at: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2007/may07/eigenfactor.cfm

Bornmann, Lutz and Hans-Dieter Daniel. 2007. "What do we know about the h index?" Journal of the American Society For Information Science, 58(9):1381–1385. Available free on the web at: http://www.lutz-bornmann.de/icons/BornmannDanielHReview.pdf

Citation Statistics: A Report from the International Mathematical Union...June 2008.  (This is a report about the use and misuse of citation data in the assessment of scientific research.) 
http://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/Report/CitationStatistics.pdf

Harzing, Anne-Wil and Ron van der Wal (2007, in press). "Google Scholar: the democratization of citation analysis?" Accepted for Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics. Available free on the web at: http://www.harzing.com/download/gsdemo.pdf

Ingwersen, Peter. 1998. "The calculation of web impact factors." Journal of Documentation, vol. 54, no. 2, March 1998, pp. 236-243. Available free on the web at: http://www.jacso.info/PDFs/ingwersen-calculation-of-WebIF.pdf

Meho, Lokman I. 2007. "The rise and rise of citation analysis." Physics World, January 2007, p. 32-36. Article pre-print is available free on the web at: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00008340/01/PhysicsWorld.pdf

Monastersky, Richard. 2005. "The number that's devouring science." The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 14, 2005. Available free on the web: http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i08/08a01201.htm

Schreiber, Michael. 2007. "A case study of the Hirsch index for 26 non-prominent physicists." Available free on the web: http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0120

van Raan, Anthony F.J. 2005. "Comparison of the Hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and peer judgment for 147 chemistry research groups." Available free on the web at: http://www.cwts.nl/cwts/Hirsch.pdf

 
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