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most citedGoogle Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: a systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories

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cs.DL2016★ 94 cited

Three practical field normalised alternative indicator formulae for research evaluation

Mike Thelwall

Although altmetrics and other web-based alternative indicators are now commonplace in publishers' websites, they can be difficult for research evaluators to use because of the time…

cs.DL2016★ 20 cited

Citation count distributions for large monodisciplinary journals

Mike Thelwall

Many different citation-based indicators are used by researchers and research evaluators to help evaluate the impact of scholarly outputs. Although the appropriateness of individua…

cs.DL2016★ 10 cited

Not dead, just resting: The practical value of per publication citation indicators

Mike Thelwall

In the final analysis citation-based indicators are inferior to effective peer review and even peer review is flawed. It is impossible to accurately measure the value or impact of…

cs.DL2016★ 35 cited

Are there too many uncited articles? Zero inflated variants of the discretised lognormal and hooked power law distributions

Mike Thelwall

Although statistical models fit many citation data sets reasonably well with the best fitting models being the hooked power law and discretised lognormal distribution, the fits are…

cs.DL2016

Are the discretised lognormal and hooked power law distributions plausible for citation data?

Mike Thelwall

There is no agreement over which statistical distribution is most appropriate for modelling citation count data. This is important because if one distribution is accepted then the…

cs.DL2016★ 73 cited

The discretised lognormal and hooked power law distributions for complete citation data: Best options for modelling and regression

Mike Thelwall

Identifying the statistical distribution that best fits citation data is important to allow robust and powerful quantitative analyses. Whilst previous studies have suggested that b…