Citation impact indicators nowadays play an important role in research evaluation, and
consequently these indicators have received a lot of attention in the bibliometric and …

The majority of academic papers are scarcely cited while a few others are highly cited. A
large number of studies indicate that there are many factors influencing the number of …

An extensive analysis of the presence of different altmetric indicators provided by Altmetric.
com across scientific fields is presented, particularly focusing on their relationship with …

Researchers are used to being evaluated: publications, hiring, tenure and funding decisions
are all based on the evaluation of research. Traditionally, this evaluation relied on …

It was recently reported that men self-cite> 50% more often than women across a wide
variety of disciplines in the bibliographic database JSTOR. Here, we replicate this finding in …

Citations can be an indicator of publication significance, utility, attention, visibility or short-
term impact but analysts need to confirm whether a high citation count for an individual is a …

This study provides a conceptual overview of the literature dealing with the process of citing
documents (focusing on the literature from the recent decade). It presents theories, which …

The authors set forth a general methodology for conducting bibliometric analyses at the
micro level. It combines several indicators grouped into three factors or dimensions, which …

Academic Discourse and Global Publishing offers a coherent argument for changes in
published academic writing over the past 50 years. Demonstrating how published writing …

The phenomenon of self-citation can present in many different forms, including direct, co-
author, collaborative, and coercive induced self-citation. It can also pertain to the citation of …