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 …

This book is written for members of the scholarly research community, and for persons
involved in research evaluation and research policy. More specifically, it is directed towards …

This paper explores a new indicator of journal citation impact, denoted as source normalized
impact per paper (SNIP). It measures a journal's contextual citation impact, taking into …

Aimed at academics, academic managers and administrators, professionals in
scientometrics, information scientists and science policy makers at all levels. This book …

A new approach to the field normalization of the classical journal impact factor is introduced.
This approach, called the audience factor, takes into consideration the citing propensity of …

As citation practices strongly depend on fields, field normalisation is recognised as
necessary for fair comparison of figures in bibliometrics and evaluation studies. However …

It is well known that uninformed science administrators often use ISI's journal impact factors
without taking into account the inherent citation characteristics of individual scientific …

Several authors have proposed that a large number of unusual combinations of cited
references in a paper point to its high creative potential (or novelty). However, it is still not …

The paper compares the research performance in computer science of four major Western
countries, India and China, based on the data abstracted from INSPEC database during the …

In a reply to Jerome K. Vanclay's manuscript “Impact Factor: outdated artefact or stepping-
stone to journal certification?” we discuss the value of journal metrics for the assessment of …