Caveats for the Use of Citation Indicators in Research and Journal Evaluations
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...Leydesdorff (2008) also extends this problem to the case of using the h-index or similar indicators to evaluate journals or more general research activities....
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...For clarity reasons, we have splitted all the proposals into two different categories: i) new indices that try to complement the h-index and ii) new indices that extend the h-index to take into account other variables and dependencies (mainly time and number of authors)....
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...However, the h-index presents some drawbacks that have been pointed out in the literature (Bar-Ilan 2008; Bornmann 2008; Costas and Bordons 2007; Iglesias 2007; Leydesdorff 2008; Rousseau 2006)....
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...The pluses and minuses of the impact factor, as viewed by various bibliometricians, are widely discussed in the literature (Leydesdorff 2008; Moed 2002; Moed 2005a; Moed and van Leeuwen 1995; Moed and van Leeuwen 1996; Moed et al. 1996; Moed et al. 1999; Moed et al. 2004; van Leeuwen et al. 1999; van Leeuwen and Moed 2002; van Leeuwen and Moed 2005; Zitt and Small 2008)....
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...The pluses and minuses of the impact factor, as viewed by various bibliometricians, are widely discussed in the literature (Leydesdorff 2008; Moed 2002; Moed 2005a; Moed and van Leeuwen 1995; Moed and van Leeuwen 1996; Moed et al. 1996; Moed et al. 1999; Moed et al. 2004; van Leeuwen et al. 1999;…...
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...On the one hand, this solves the problem of highly skewed (i.e., non-normal) distributions, and, on the other hand, the cosine values can be taken as input to the vector-space-model for the visualization (Salton & McGill, 1983; Ahlgren et al., 2003; Leydesdorff, 2007a)....
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...ished papers are cited up to two years after publication (Garfield, 1979, at p. 149). 3 2005).2 Total citations, of course, are more stable over time—since accumulating—than impact factors. Recently, Hirsch (2005) has proposed the h-index as a new indicator for evaluation purposes. This index is defined as the highest rank on a scientist’s list of publications such that the first h publications received at lea...
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...Recently, Hirsch (2005) has proposed the h-index as a new indicator for evaluation purposes....
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...Keywords: indicators, evaluation, research assessment, journal, impact...
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...A division between disciplinary (“Mode-1”) and transdisciplinary (“Mode-2”) journals might thus further be reinforced (Gibbons et al., 1994; Leydesdorff & Jin, 2005)....
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...Since earning-power is increasingly important for university positions and tenure may depend on new contracts, relations with the clientele have become business-like and strategic in this field (Gibbons et al., 1994; Nowotny et al. 2001)....
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