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An extensive analysis of the presence of altmetric data for Web of Science publications across subject fields and research topics
Zhichao Fang, Rodrigo Costas, Wencan Tian +2
Sufficient data presence is one of the key preconditions for applying metrics in practice. Based on both Altmetric.com data and Mendeley data collected up to 2019, this paper prese…
Social media metrics for new research evaluation
Paul Wouters, Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas
This chapter approaches, both from a theoretical and practical perspective, the most important principles and conceptual frameworks that can be considered in the application of soc…
Science and its significant other: Representing the humanities in bibliometric scholarship
Thomas Franssen, Paul Wouters
Bibliometrics offers a particular representation of science. Through bibliometric methods a bibliometrician will always highlight particular elements of publications, and through t…
Mendeley readership as a filtering tool to identify highly cited publications
Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas, Paul Wouters
This study presents a large scale analysis of the distribution and presence of Mendeley readership scores over time and across disciplines. We study whether Mendeley readership sco…
Professional and Citizen Bibliometrics: Complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators
Loet Leydesdorff, Paul Wouters, Lutz Bornmann
Bibliometric indicators such as journal impact factors, h-indices, and total citation counts are algorithmic artifacts that can be used in research evaluation and management. These…
The elephant in the room: The problem of quantifying productivity in evaluative scientometrics
Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck, Martijn Visser +1
In a critical and provocative paper, Abramo and D'Angelo claim that commonly used scientometric indicators such as the mean normalized citation score (MNCS) are completely inapprop…