Opinion paper: thoughts and facts on bibliometric indicators

被引:68
作者
Glanzel, Wolfgang [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Moed, Henk F. [4 ]
机构
[1] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Ctr R&D Monitoring ECOOM, Louvain, Belgium
[2] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept MSI, Louvain, Belgium
[3] LHAS, Dept Sci Policy & Scientometr, Budapest, Hungary
[4] Elsevier, SciVal Dept, Amsterdam, Netherlands
关键词
Indicators; Mathematical statistics; Normalization; SOURCE NORMALIZED IMPACT; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS; CITATION INFLUENCE; MODEL;
D O I
10.1007/s11192-012-0898-z
中图分类号
TP39 [计算机的应用];
学科分类号
081203 ; 0835 ;
摘要
This paper aims at contributing to the on-going discussion about building and applying bibliometric indicators. It sheds light on their properties and requirements concerning six different aspects: deterministic versus probabilistic approach, application-related properties, the time dependence, normalization issues, size dependence and network indicators.
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页码:381 / 394
页数:14
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