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Description
Aimed at academics, academic managers and administrators, professionals in scientometrics, information scientists and science policy makers at all levels. This book reviews the principles, methods and indicators of scientometric evaluation of information processes in science and assessment of the publication activity of individuals, teams, institutes and countries. It provides scientists, science officers, librarians and students with basic and advanced knowledge on evaluative scientometrics. Especially great stress is laid on the methods applicable in practice and on the clarification of quantitative aspects of impact of scientific publications measured by citation indicators.
Key Features
- Written by a highly knowledgeable and well-respected scientist in the field
- Provides practical and realistic quantitative methods for evaluating scientific publication activities of individuals, teams, countries and journals
- Gives standardized descriptions and classification of the main categories of evaluative scientometrics
Readership
Academic librarians working in the sciences, information scientists, and science policy makers
Table of Contents
Acknowledgement
About the author
List of figures and tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Basic categories of scientometrics
Concluding remarks
Chapter 3: Classification of the indicators of evaluative scientometrics
Introduction
Classification scheme of evaluative indicators
Concluding remarks
Chapter 4: Publication growth in science
Introduction
Relative publication growth index
Concluding remarks
Chapter 5: Scientific eminence of journals: the Garfield Factor and the Current Contribution Index
Introduction
Standardised description of the Garfield Factor
Chances for citation and chances for citedness
The Garfield Factor and relative publication growth
Some empirical findings
An empirical model
Towards understanding the Garfield Factor
The GF and the SIC index
Relationship between quantity and quality: growth and specific indices
The Current Contribution Index (CCI)
The πV-index
Concluding remarks
Chapter 6: The ageing of scientific information
Introduction
Annual citedness and annual citedness rates
Conversion of Journal Paper Citedness indices or Garfield Factors calculated for different time periods
Calculating the Estimated Number of Citations (ENC) by the Subsequent Impact Method (SIM)
Concluding remarks
Chapter 7: Scientometric indicators for the assessment of publications
Introduction
Definition and function of comparative indicators of evaluative scientometrics
Relationships between three relative impact indicators (RW, RCR, RPS)
The Invitation Paradox
Model for the selection of relative publication impact indicators
Composite scientometric indicators
The h-index and the π-index
Concluding remarks
Chapte
Details
- No. of pages:
- 336
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © 2010
- Published:
- 20th January 2010
- Imprint:
- Chandos Publishing
- eBook ISBN:
- 9781780630250
- Print ISBN:
- 9781843345725
About the author
Peter Vinkler
Dr. Peter Vinkler is Scientific Secretary of the Chemical Research Center, Budapest and Director of the Scientific Publication Data Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He worked as Head of the Biocomplex Research Department of the Chemical Research Center for several years. He has published extensively on scientometrics and information science, primarily on the indicators used for the evaluation of publication activities of individuals and teams. He serves as Associate Editor of Scientometrics and regularly reviews publications also for the Journal of Informetrics and Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. In 2009 he was awarded the Derek de Solla Price Medal for his outstanding contributions to the field of quantitative studies of science.
Affiliations and Expertise
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary