Abstract:Digitization, the Internet, and information or webometric interdisciplinary approaches are affecting the fields of Scientometrics and Library and Information Science (LIS). These new approaches can be used to improve citation-only procedures to estimate the quality and impact of research. A European pilot to explore this potential was called Three intrinsic and two extrinsic latent factors were found to be relevant. Moreover, the more a document was related to a reviewer's own area of research, the higher the … Show more
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