Bibliometrics: Oldies, Goodies, Freebies SLA 2014

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Bibliometrics Resources: Oldies, (new) Goodies, and Freebies Special Libraries Association Annual Conference Sunday, June 8, 2013 Vancouver, BC, Canada Elaine M. Lasda Bergman Senior Assistant Librarian University at Albany [email protected]

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Transcript of Bibliometrics: Oldies, Goodies, Freebies SLA 2014

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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 [email protected]

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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

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• 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

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New Twists on an Old Theme

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What is that H-index, anyway?

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56 citations 56 citations6 h-index 4 h-index

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Influence of Google Page Rank

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Some Citations are More Important

Than Others

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Sources of Citation Data

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Free Web Sources Using WoS Data

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Eigenfactor

http://www.eigenfactor.org/

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Science Watch

http://sciencewatch.com/

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Free Web Sources Using SCOPUS data

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SJR:SCImago Journal Rank

http://www.scimagojr.com

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Journal M3trics

www.journalmetrics.com

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Free Web Sources Using Google Scholar

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Publish or Perish

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

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Clean PoP

http://cleanpop.ifris.net/

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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

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Other Assorted Tools

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Scholarometer

http://scholarometer.indiana.edu/

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

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Also…

• Trend vs. citation count

• Database Coverage

• Non-scholarly publications

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Thank You for coming

Elaine M. Lasda BergmanUniversity at [email protected]

http://www.slideshare.net/librarian68/