Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present a narrative review of studies on the citing
behavior of scientists, covering mainly research published in the last 15 years. Based on the …

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This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a
globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic …

Explanations for women's underrepresentation in math-intensive fields of science often
focus on sex discrimination in grant and manuscript reviewing, interviewing, and hiring …

Excellence. Originality. Intelligence. Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly
is it, and how do professors identify it? In the academic evaluation system known as “peer …

Becoming Metric-Wise: A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers aims to inform researchers
about metrics so that they become aware of the evaluative techniques being applied to their …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Narrative reviews of peer review research have concluded that there is negligible evidence
of gender bias in the awarding of grants based on peer review. Here, we report the findings …