Scholarly communication and bibliometrics

A bibliometric analysis of the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling

“…Spurred in large part by the pioneering work of Garfield [1], bibliometrics is now a well-established discipline with its own core journal, Scientometrics, and many papers appearing in other journals, in particular those in library and information science, e.g., the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology and the Journal of Information Science. Bibliometric data can be used to analyse a range of phenomena, such as the development of a subject over time, the identification of the key researchers and key collaborations in the subject, the extent to which different journals carry highly-cited articles on the subject, and, increasingly, to provide performance indicators relating to the quality of the research of an individual or of an institution [2][3][4][5][6].…”

Citation counting, citation ranking, and h‐index of human‐computer interaction researchers: A comparison of Scopus and Web of Science

“…Citation analysis-i.e., the analysis of data derived from references cited in footnotes or bibliographies of scholarly publications-is a powerful and popular method of examining and mapping the intellectual impact of scientists, projects, journals, disciplines, and nations (Borgman, 1990;Garfield, value and necessity of using multiple citation sources for examining and mapping the intellectual impact of research; and (3) the appropriateness of using Scopus as an alternative source of citations to Web of Science. These three issues are raised primarily because of the considerably broader literature coverage in Scopus (over 15,000 "peer-reviewed" titles, including more than 1,000 Open Access journals, 500 conference proceedings, and 600 trade publications going back to 1996) than that of Web of Science (approximately 9,000 scholarly journals and a significant number of conference proceedings and books in series); users of citations for research evaluation want to know what are the effects of this broader coverage on evaluation results, how significant are the effects of this broader coverage, and what characterizes the sources exclusively covered by Scopus (in terms of impact, quality, and type of documents).…”

Challenges of scholarly publications on the Web to the evaluation of science—A comparison of author visibility on the Web and in print journals

“…As the accelerated development of information technology, especially the rapid growth of the Web, is changing the circumstances and consequently the structures and processes of scholarly communication, there is renewed interest in the study of scholarly communication to see how it is being transformed, what the similarities or differences between the new formats of communication and the traditional ones might be, and how the new formats facilitate or inhibit the scholarly communication process (Borgman & Furner, 2002;Cronin, 2001;Zhao, 2003).…”