The Rise and Rise of Citation Analysis
Abstract
With the vast majority of scientific papers now available online, this paper describes how the Web is allowing physicists and information providers to measure more accurately the impact of these papers and their authors. Provides a historical background of citation analysis, impact factor, new citation data sources (e.g., Google Scholar, Scopus, NASA's Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, MathSciNet, ScienceDirect, SciFinder Scholar, Scitation/SPIN, and SPIRES-HEP), as well as h-index, g-index, and a-index.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- December 2006
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.physics/0701012
- arXiv:
- arXiv:physics/0701012
- Bibcode:
- 2007physics...1012M
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Physics and Society;
- Computer Science - Digital Libraries
- E-Print:
- 15 pages, accepted for publication in Physics World (Janury 2007)