Bibliometrics Resources: Oldies, (new) Goodies, and Freebies

Special Libraries Association Annual ConferenceSunday, June 8, 2013

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Elaine M. Lasda BergmanSenior Assistant LibrarianUniversity at Albanyelasdabergman@albany.edu

Bibliometrics

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• Citation count• Impact Factor• Immediacy Index• Citation Half-Life

Origins of Bibliometrics

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• Number of times cited• Does not take into account– Materials not included in citation database– Self citations (possibly)

Citation Count

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Journal Impact Factor

Journal Citation Reports

Number of citations to a journal in a given year from articles occurring in the past 2 years

Divided by the number of scholarly articles published in the journal in the past 2 years

• Domain/Discipline Specific• 2 Year Time Frame• Adequacy of Journal Coverage• Impact = Quality???

Concerns

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Newer, Bigger Concerns with JIF

http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2013/may/17/science-policy

New Twists on an Old Theme

What is that H-index, anyway?

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Scholar A Scholar B

10 2710 129 58 47 46 26 2

56 citations 56 citations6 h-index 4 h-index

Influence of Google Page Rank

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Some Citations are More Important

Than Others

Sources of Citation Data

Free Web Sources Using WoS Data

Eigenfactor

http://www.eigenfactor.org/

Science Watch

http://sciencewatch.com/

Free Web Sources Using SCOPUS data

SJR:SCImago Journal Rank

http://www.scimagojr.com

Journal M3trics

www.journalmetrics.com

Free Web Sources Using Google Scholar

Publish or Perish

http://www.harzing.com/resources.htm#/pop.htm

Clean PoP

http://cleanpop.ifris.net/

PoP Metrics• Papers• Citations• Cites/paper• Cites/author• Papers/Author• Authors/Paper• H index• G index

• Hc Index• HI index• HI, Norm• Hm Index• E-index• AWCR• Per Author AWCR

Google Scholar Citations

http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html

Other Assorted Tools

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Scholarometer

http://scholarometer.indiana.edu/

Microsoft Academic

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/

Keep In Mind• Journal Quality ≠ Article Quality• Citing a work ≠ Agreement • Self Citations• Pattern Variance from Domain to Domain

Also…

• Trend vs. citation count

• Database Coverage

• Non-scholarly publications

Thank You for coming

Elaine M. Lasda BergmanUniversity at Albanyelasdabergman@albany.edu

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