133 citations · 930 across the 48 of their papers we have counts for
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Coverage, field specialization and impact of scientific publishers indexed in the 'Book Citation Index'
Daniel Torres-Salinas, Nicolás Robinson-García, J. M. Campanario +1
Purpose: The aim of this study is to analyze the disciplinary coverage of the Thomson Reuters' Book Citation Index database focusing on publisher presence, impact and specializatio…
What do university rankings by fields rank? Exploring discrepancies between the organizational structure of universities and bibliometric classifications
Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Clara Calero-Medina
University rankings by fields are usually based on the research output of universities. However, research managers and rankings consumers expect to see in such fields a reflection…
Letter to the editor: Against the Resilience of Rejected Manuscripts
Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Daniel Torres-Salinas, J. M. Campanario +1
In this letter we propose the development of guidelines by the main editors associations as well as protocols within online journal management systems for keeping track of rejected…
Reviewers' ratings and bibliometric indicators: hand in hand when assessing over research proposals?
Alvaro Cabezas-Clavijo, Nicolás Robinson-Garcia, Manuel Escabias +1
The peer review system has been traditionally challenged due to its many limitations especially for allocating funding. Bibliometric indicators may well present themselves as a com…
Most borrowed is most cited? Library loan statistics as a proxy for monograph selection in citation indexes
Álvaro Cabezas-Clavijo, Nicolás Robinson-García, Daniel Torres-Salinas +5
This study aims to analyse whether library loans statistics can be used as a measure of monograph use and as a selection criteria for inclusion in citation indexes. For this, we co…
Analyzing the citation characteristics of books: edited books, book series and types of publishers in the Book Citation Index
Daniel Torres-Salinas, Nicolás Robinson-García, Álvaro Cabezas-Clavijo +1
This paper presents a first approach to analyzing the factors that determine the citation characteristics of books. For this we use the Thomson Reuters' Book Citation Index, a nove…
An insight into the importance of national university rankings in an international context: The case of the I-UGR Rankings of Spanish universities
Nicolás Robinson-García, Daniel Torres-Salinas, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar +1
The great importance international rankings have achieved in the research policy arena warns against many threats consequence of the flaws and shortcomings these tools present. One…
Best-in-class and Strategic Benchmarking of Scientific Subject Categories of Web of Science in 2010
J. A. García, Rosa Rodriguez-Sánchez, Joaquín Fdez-Valdivia +2
Here we show a novel technique for comparing subject categories, where the prestige of academic journals in each category is represented statistically by an impact-factor histogram…
Mapping Citation Patterns of Book Chapters in the Book Citation Index
Daniel Torres-Salinas, Rosa Rodriguez-Sánchez, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia +2
In this paper we provide the reader with a visual representation of relationships among the impact of book chapters indexed in the Book Citation Index using information gain values…
Mapping Academic Institutions According to Their Journal Publication Profile: Spanish Universities as a Case Study
J. A. García, Rosa Rodríguez-Sánchez, J. Fdez-Valdivia +2
We introduce a novel methodology for mapping academic institutions based on their journal publication profiles. We believe that journals in which researchers from academic institut…
On the use of Biplot analysis for multivariate bibliometric and scientific indicators
Daniel Torres-Salinas, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras +2
Bibliometric mapping and visualization techniques represent one of the main pillars in the field of scientometrics. Traditionally, the main methodologies employed for representing…