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This paper reviews developments in informetrics between 2000 and 2006. At the beginning
of the 21st century we witness considerable growth in webometrics, mapping and …

A Sleeping Beauty (SB) in science refers to a paper whose importance is not recognized for
several years after publication. Its citation history exhibits a long hibernation period followed …

We begin with a short history of measuring science and discuss how the Science Citation
Index has revolutionized the quantitative study of science and created a strong application …

Abstract Jorge Hirsch (2005a, 2005b) recently proposed the h index to quantify the research
output of individual scientists. The new index has attracted a lot of attention in the scientific …

In this study, we examined empirical results on the h index and its most important variants in
order to determine whether the variants developed are associated with an incremental …

Public communication about science faces novel challenges, including the increasing
complexity of research areas and the erosion of traditional journalistic infrastructures …

With the ready accessibility of bibliometric data and the availability of ready-to-use tools for
generating bibliometric indicators for evaluation purposes, there is the danger of …

This study examines whether there are some general trends across subject fields regarding
the factors affecting the number of citations of articles, focusing especially on those factors …

A number of bibliometric studies point out that citation counts are a function of many
variables besides scientific quality. In this paper our aim is to investigate these factors that …