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almahu_9949697750202882
Format:
1 online resource (386 pages) :
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illustrations, tables
ISBN:
0-08-102475-4
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Front Cover -- Becoming Metric-Wise -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Biographies -- Preface -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Metrics in the Information Sciences -- 1.2 A Short Overview of Topics Studied in the Field of Informetrics -- 1.3 Instruments -- 1.4 Other Metrics and the Larger Picture -- 1.5 Mathematical Terminology -- 1.5.1 Numbers -- 1.5.2 Sequences -- 1.5.3 Sets -- 2 Scientific Research and Communication -- 2.1 Knowledge and Scientific Research -- 2.1.1 Tacit Versus Explicit Knowledge -- 2.1.2 Scientific Research -- 2.1.3 Citizen Science -- 2.1.4 Open Science -- 2.2 Scientific Discoveries -- 2.2.1 Types of Scientific Discoveries: Koshland's cha-cha-cha Theory -- 2.2.2 Replication Research -- 2.2.3 Shneider's Typology of Scientists -- 2.2.4 Scientific Communication -- 2.3 A Two-Tier Publication System -- 2.3.1 Types of Publications -- 2.3.2 Steps in the Publication Process -- 2.3.3 Structure of a Research Paper and Major Steps Between Submission and Publication -- Structure of a Research Article -- Major Steps Between Submission and Publication -- 2.3.4 Qualifying for Authorship -- Contributors Listed in the Acknowledgments -- 2.3.5 Collaboration -- 2.3.6 Invisible Colleges -- 2.4 A Three-Tier Evaluation System -- 2.4.1 Peer Reviewed Publications -- 2.4.2 Usage -- 2.4.3 Citation Analysis -- 3 Publishing in Scientific Journals -- 3.1 Editorship and Peer Review -- 3.1.1 Peer Review -- 3.1.2 The Editor-In-Chief and the Editorial Board -- 3.1.3 The Editorial Process -- 3.1.4 Deontology of Authors, Editors, and Reviewers (De George & Woodward, 1994) -- 3.1.5 Review Systems -- 3.1.6 Editorial Decision Schemes -- 3.1.7 Rejection Rate -- 3.1.8 Delays -- Review(er) Delay -- Publication Delay -- Citation Delay -- 3.2 Open Access (OA) -- 3.2.1 The Open Access Idea -- 3.2.2 Definitions: Gold and Green Open Access.
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3.2.3 Gold OA and Who Pays the Costs? -- 3.2.4 Retrieving Articles -- 3.2.5 Predatory Journals -- 3.2.6 Delayed Open Access: An Oxymoron -- 3.2.7 The OA Impact Advantage -- 3.2.8 Davis' Randomized Controlled Trial on Gold OA -- 3.3 Scientific Misconduct: Fraud, Plagiarism, Retraction and the Integrity of the Publication Record -- 3.3.1 Plagiarism and Duplication -- 3.3.2 Fraud -- 3.3.3 Fake Reviews -- 3.3.4 Retractions -- 3.3.5 A Note on Irreproducibility -- 4 Statistics -- 4.1 Introduction -- Part A. Descriptive statistics -- 4.2 Simple Representations -- 4.2.1 Nominal Categories -- 4.2.2 Ordinal Scales -- 4.2.3 Interval Scales -- 4.2.4 An Illustration -- 4.3 Measures of Central Tendency -- 4.3.1 The Arithmetic Average -- 4.3.2 The Geometric and the Harmonic Mean -- 4.3.3 The Median -- 4.3.4 The Mode -- 4.4 Cumulative Distributions and the Quantile Function -- 4.4.1 The Observed Cumulative Distribution -- 4.4.2 The Quantile Function -- Procedure 1 -- Procedure 2 -- 4.5 Measures of Statistical Dispersion -- 4.5.1 The Standard Deviation and the Variance -- 4.5.2 The Range -- 4.5.3 The Interquartile Range -- 4.5.4 Skewness -- 4.6 The Boxplot -- 4.6.1 The Five-Number Summary -- 4.6.2 Boxplots -- 4.7 Scatterplots and Linear Regression -- 4.7.1 Regression -- 4.7.2 Pearson Correlation -- 4.7.3 Spearman Correlation -- 4.8 Nonparametric Linear Regression -- 4.9 Contingency Tables -- 4.10 The Lorenz Curve and the Gini Index -- 4.10.1 The 80/20 Rule -- 4.10.2 The Lorenz Curve -- 4.10.3 The Gini Coefficient (Also Known as the Gini Index) (Gini, 1909) -- 4.11 Applications in Informetrics -- Part B. Inferential statistics -- 4.12 The Normal Distribution -- 4.12.1 The z-score -- 4.13 Hypothesis Testing -- 4.13.1 Test of Independence in Contingency Tables -- 4.13.2 Mann-Whitney U-test for Equality of Distributions (Mann & Whitney, 1947).
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4.14 Concluding Remarks on Statistics -- 5 Publication and Citation Analysis -- 5.1 Publication and Citation Analysis: Definitions (Rousseau, 2008) -- 5.1.1 Publication Analysis: A Formal Definition -- 5.1.2 Definition: By-Line Country Correspondence -- 5.1.3 Citation Analysis: A Formal Definition -- 5.1.4 Scientific Achievements Weave Citation Networks -- 5.1.5 Scientific Contributions and the Act of Citing -- 5.1.6 Criticism on Citation Analysis -- 5.1.7 Citation Networks -- 5.1.8 Applications of Publication and Citation Analysis -- 5.2 Citation Indices: Generalities -- 5.2.1 Definition of a Citation Index -- 5.2.2 History of the Science Citation Index -- 5.2.3 Competitors for Thomson Reuters -- 5.2.4 Advantages of a Citation Index -- 5.3 Citing and Reasons to Cite -- 5.3.1 A List of Acceptable Reasons to Cite -- 5.3.2 A List of Less Acceptable Reasons to Cite -- 5.3.3 What Happens in Reality? -- 5.4 Citation Classification Schemes -- 5.4.1 The Moravcsik-Murugesan Classification of Citations -- 5.4.2 The Chubin-Moitra Classification Scheme -- 5.4.3 White's Synthesis -- 5.5 Authors and Their Citation Environment -- 5.6 Difficulties Related to Counting -- 5.6.1 Problems Related to Publication and Citation Counts (Egghe & Rousseau, 1990) -- 5.6.2 Self-Citations -- 5.6.3 Coauthorship and Counting Contributions -- 5.7 A Note on Eponyms -- 5.8 The Ethics of Citing -- 5.9 Citation Networks and the Mathematics of Citation -- 5.9.1 Generalities on Citation Networks or Graphs -- 5.9.2 Mathematical Theorems About Citation Graphs -- 5.9.3 The Publication and Citation Process Described by Matrices -- Matrices and how to Multiply Them -- 5.10 Bibliographic Coupling and Cocitation Analysis -- 5.10.1 Bibliographic Coupling -- 5.10.2 Cocitations -- 5.10.3 Applications of Bibliographic Coupling and Cocitation Analysis -- 5.11 Tri-citations.
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5.12 Highly-Cited Documents Become Concept Symbols -- 5.13 Citation Generations -- 5.13.1 Multisets -- 5.13.2 Definition: Citation Generations in a Uni-Directed Citation Network -- 5.13.3 An Illustrative Example -- 5.14 Delayed Recognition and Sleeping Beauties -- 5.15 A Short Description of the Web of Science -- 5.16 Scopus -- 5.17 Google Scholar (GS) -- 5.18 Comparisons -- 5.19 Final Remarks -- 6 Journal Citation Analysis -- 6.1 Scientific Journals -- 6.2 The Publication-Citation Matrix per Article -- 6.2.1 A Complete Publication-Citation Matrix -- 6.3 The Publication-Citation Matrix of a Journal and the Garfield-Sher (1963) Impact Factor: Introduction -- 6.4 Synchronous Impact Factors -- 6.4.1 Definition of the Journal Impact Factor -- 6.4.2 An Example and a Warning -- 6.5 Diachronous Impact Factors -- 6.6 More on Publication-Citation Matrices and Impact Factors -- 6.6.1 A General Framework for Calculating Impact (Frandsen & Rousseau, 2005): A First Proposal -- 6.6.2 A General Framework for Calculating Impact (Frandsen & Rousseau, 2005): An Alternative -- 6.7 Remarks About Journal Impact Factors -- 6.7.1 Expanding or Restricting the Citation Pool -- 6.7.2 Normalization -- 6.7.3 Meta-Journal Indicators (Egghe and Rousseau, 1996a,b) -- 6.7.4 Citable Publications -- 6.8 The h-index for Journals -- 6.9 Indicators That Take the Importance of the Citing Journal into Account -- 6.9.1 A Short Description of the Pinski-Narin Algorithm -- 6.9.2 Calculating the Eigenfactor Score and the Article Influence Score -- 6.9.3 Advantages of the Eigenfactor Score and Related Journal Indicators (Franceschet, 2010b) -- 6.10 Correlations Between Journal Indicators -- 6.11 The Audience Factor -- 6.12 The SNIP Indicator (Moed, 2010, 2016 -- Waltman et al., 2013) -- 6.12.1 Definition of the SNIP Indicator -- 6.12.2 The New SNIP Indicator -- 6.12.3 Comments.
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6.13 Clarivate Analytics' Journal Citation Reports -- 6.13.1 WoS Categories -- 6.13.2 Indicators Available in the JCR -- 6.14 Structure of the SCImago Database -- 6.15 Problems Related to Impact Factors (Moed, 2005a -- Stock, 2009 -- Vanclay, 2012) -- 6.16 CiteScore Index -- 6.17 Who Makes use of Bibliometric Indicators? (Stock, 2009) -- 6.18 Ranking Journals (Rousseau et al., 2015 -- Xu et al., 2015) -- 6.18.1 Peer Review Based Approach -- 6.18.2 Citation Based Approach -- 6.18.3 Combination of the Two Approaches -- 6.18.4 Other Journal Ranking Indicators -- 6.19 The Median Impact Factor -- 6.20 Mathematical Properties of the Diachronous and the Synchronous Impact Factor -- 6.20.1 Elementary Considerations on Impact Factors -- 6.20.2 A Property of the Basic Journal Citation Model -- 6.21 Additional Information -- 7 Indicators -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.1.1 Definitions -- 7.1.2 Some Remarks on Indicators -- 7.1.3 General Terminology: Validity, Fairness, Usefulness and Reliability -- 7.1.4 Normalization -- 7.2 Collaboration and Collaboration Indices -- 7.2.1 Coauthorship Roles -- 7.2.2 Forms of Collaboration -- 7.2.3 Measures of Collaboration (Egghe, 1991 -- Rousseau, 2011) -- 7.3 The h-index -- 7.3.1 Definition -- 7.3.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of the h-index -- 7.3.3 Independence -- 7.4 Simple Variations on the h-index -- 7.4.1 The Rational h-index -- 7.4.2 The Interpolated h-index -- 7.4.3 The m-quotient -- 7.4.4 Year-Based h-indices -- 7.5 h-Type Indices That Take the Number of Received Citations by Highly Cited Publications into Account -- 7.5.1 The g-index -- 7.5.2 The R- and R2-index -- 7.6 Some Other h-type Indices -- 7.6.1 Kosmulski's Index h(2) -- 7.6.2 The AR-index -- 7.6.3 The m-index -- 7.6.4 The h-index of a Single Publication -- 7.7 A General Impact Factor -- 7.8 Success Indices and Success Multipliers (Rousseau & Rousseau, 2016).
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7.8.1 The Success Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-08-102474-6
Language:
English
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