The Application of Bibliometric Analysis: Disciplinary and User Aspects

Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping

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Towards a methodology for developing evidence-informed management knowledge by means of systematic review

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An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output

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The bibliometric analysis of scholarly production: How great is the impact?

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Citation-based clustering of publications using CitNetExplorer and VOSviewer

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Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics

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Performance-based university research funding systems

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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

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Bibliometric Methods: Pitfalls and Possibilities

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Fatal attraction: Conceptual and methodological problems in the ranking of universities by bibliometric methods

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The Metric Tide: Report of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management

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Which h-index? — A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar

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Publish and perish? Bibliometric analysis, journal ranking and the assessment of research quality in tourism

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Impact of bibliometrics upon the science system: Inadvertent consequences?

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Are there better indices for evaluation purposes than the h index? A comparison of nine different variants of the h index using data from biomedicine

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Does the h-index for ranking of scientists really work?

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The place of serials in referencing practices: Comparing natural sciences and engineering with social sciences and humanities

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Metrics: A profusion of measures

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Metrics: Do metrics matter?

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Global biodiversity research during 1900–2009: a bibliometric analysis

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Professional and Citizen Bibliometrics: Complementarities and Ambivalences in the Development and Use of Indicators—a State-of-the-Art Report

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Rankings of Higher Education Institutions: A Critical Review

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The operationalization of “fields” as <scp>WoS</scp> subject categories ( <scp>WC</scp> s) in evaluative bibliometrics: The cases of “library and information science” and “science &amp; technology studies”

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The need for standards in bibliometric research and technology

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The Matthew effect in environmental science publication: A bibliometric analysis of chemical substances in journal articles

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Usage impact factor: The effects of sample characteristics on usage‐based impact metrics

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Universality of scholarly impact metricsPreprint

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Universality of scholarly impact metrics

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A bibliometric analysis of global Zika research

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Analysis of the interdisciplinary nature of library and information science

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Social Media and Altmetrics: An Overview of Current Alternative Approaches to Measuring Scholarly Impact

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Ranking and mapping of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide based on highly-cited papers

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Competencies for bibliometrics

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Surveying the Use of Theory in Library and Information Science Research: A Disciplinary Perspective

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How to improve the use of metrics

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The bibliometric bandwagon: Characteristics of bibliometric articles outside the field literature

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The metric tide: Literature review

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The decade of metrics? Examining the evolution of metrics within and outside LIS

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Professional competencies and jurisdictional claims in evaluative bibliometrics: The educational mandate of academic librarians

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Tide or Tsunami? The Impact of Metrics on Scholarly Research.

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Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World

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Highlights from the Brazilian Meeting on Bibliometrics and Scientometrics

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Bibliometrics and scientometrics in India: An overview of studies during 1995-2014Part II: Contents of the articles in terms of disciplines and their bibliometric aspects

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Bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics. Part 1. Emergence and background

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Bibliometrics and scientometrics in applied linguistics: Epilogue to the special issue

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How to Select Better Topics and Design Better Bibliometrics and Scientometrics Studies: A Perspective

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