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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…
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…
Do Mendeley readership counts help to filter highly cited WoS publications better than average citation impact of journals (JCS)?
Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas, Paul Wouters
In this study, the academic status of users of scientific publications in Mendeley is explored in order to analyse the usage pattern of Mendeley users in terms of subject fields, c…
Counting publications and citations: Is more always better?
Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck, Paul Wouters
Is more always better? We address this question in the context of bibliometric indices that aim to assess the scientific impact of individual researchers by counting their number o…