Statistical analysis of citation results for researchers in Serbia (original) (raw)

Evaluation of scientific performance according to citation indexes in Serbia

2009

83 033. On average there were 57.18 citations per request, but the distribution of citations per request is very uneven. Half of the authors had 10 or less citations and 372 authors were not cited. Only 10% of authors had more than 150 citations, with the maximum of 2 769. Library of Matica srpska in Novi Sad also searches citations upon request from 1988, when they got the citation indexes. They had 2474 requests, with 25 374 citations -10.26 citations per request.

A Correlation Analysis of Normalized Indicators of Citation

Publications, 2018

Recently, more and more countries are entering the global race for university competitiveness. On the one hand, global rankings are a convenient tool for quantitative analysis. On the other hand, their indicators are often difficult to quickly calculate and they often contradict each other. The author of this paper hoped to use widely available indicators for a quick analysis of the University’s publication strategy and opted for the normalized citation indicators available in the SciVal analytical tool, namely, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) and Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI). The author demonstrated the possibility of applying the correlation analysis to the impact indicators of a document and a journal on a sample of social and humanitarian fields at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (PFUR, “RUDN” in Russian). A dot diagram of university (or country) documents was used to form a two-factor matrix (SNIP and FWCI) that was further divided into four quadrants. Such an analysis illustrated the present situation in that discipline. An analysis of the RUDN university publications revealed problems and prospects in the development of social sciences and humanities. A serious problem observed was that high-quality results were often published in low-impact journals that narrowed the results’ potential audience and, accordingly, the number of citations. A particular attention was paid to the application of the results in practice.

Citation Analysis of Science

In today’s scientific society, Science is one of the most popular and referred journals that have an impact factor of 33.611 according to journal citation reports of 2014. In this study a scientometric analysis of the research articles published in Science from 2006-2015 has been made based on the citation data available in the Web of Science. A brief study on the type of published items by Science has been made and publications under article section have been found highest. From 2006 to 2015 Science published 25987 items that contained 8045 (30.96%) items under article section. The influence of the research articles to the overhaul journal’s impact factor was calculated based on the immediacy index comparison of research articles and overall journal items for each year from 2006-2015. The average authorship of the research papers has seen an increasing trend and the researches published in Science are highly collaborative (degree of collaboration always ≥0.96). From cited references study, it was found that each year Science generates an average of 10% self citations from the outgoing citations through its research articles. After a Bradford’s distribution study on the cited references, it was found that the core group of cited journal by Science contains 15 journals that shares 24.91% of outgoing citations. Evaluation of subject area of core 15 journals reveals that research papers from “Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular biology” get most citations from Science. USA is the top contributing country with 71.43% of article contribution and University of California System is the top contributing organization with 15.88% of article contribution between 2006-2015.

Relative Citation Ratio of Top Twenty Macedonian Biomedical Scientists in PubMed: A New Metric that Uses Citation Rates to Measure Influence at the Article Level

Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences, 2016

The aim of this study was to analyze relative citation ratio (RCR) of top twenty Macedonian biomedical scientists with a new metric that uses citation rates to measure influence at the article level. Top twenty Macedonian biomedical scientists were identified by GoPubMed on the base of the number of deposited abstracts in PubMed, corrected with the data from previously published paper, and completed with the Macedonian biomedical scientists working in countries outside the Republic of Macedonia, but born or previously worked in the country. iCite was used as a tool to access a dashboard of bibliometrics for papers associated with a portfolio. The biggest number of top twenty Macedonian biomedical scientists has RCR lower than one. Only four Macedonian biomedical scientists have bigger RCR in comparison with those in PubMed. The most prominent RCR of 2.29 has Rosoklija G. RCR of the most influenced individual papers deposited in PubMed has shown the biggest value for the paper of Efr...

The Impact of National Citation Indexes in the Research Evaluation Process: Development of Bulgarian Citation Index (Social Sciences)

2020

The article outlines the problems related with the lack of an integrated national database for all scientific disciplines in Bulgarian research field. The authors present the results of a research study which focuses on various practices in Bulgarian academic libraries as examples of partially resolving the problem with citation tracking and discuss the changes in the Law for development of academic staff in the Republic of Bulgaria and evaluation of the quality of scientific activities. Results of scientific project “Design and Development of a Prototype of the Information System „Citation Index of Publications by Bulgarian Authors (Social Sciences)” which are discussed at the article’s exposition give more attention to the need of establishment of a national citation database connected not only with the research evaluation process on a national level but also playing an important role for shaping of the country profile in the global scientific environment.

Citation counts and social comparisons: Scientists' use and evaluation of citation index data

Social Science Research, 1990

Data from samples of biochemists and sociologists show that nearly all are familiar with citation indexes and that the two groups are equally likely to have used a citation index for bibliographic purposes. We develop three hypotheses from social comparison theory to account for variation in use and evaluation of citation counts as indicators of scientific achievement: (1) more highly cited scientists will more often use and more highly evaluate citation counts as indicators of scientific achievement than will less cited scientists, (2) these relationships will be stronger for sociologists than for biochemists. and (3) sociologists as a whole will more often use and more highly evaluate citation counts than biochemists. Finally, among sociologists, we hypothesize that those primarily interested in quantitative research areas will use and favor citation counts more than those with primarily qualitative or theoretical interests. Our data support all but one of these hypotheses. We also report unexpected differences in use and evaluation of citation counts by sex and departmental prestige. o 199OAcademic Press. Inc. Academic scientists are ambivalent about attempts to measure scholarly contributions. They often view such attempts negatively because they fear that using quantifiable characteristics to guage contributions leads to the distortion of research products. For example, widespread use of publication counts as a basis for promotion decisions is sometimes blamed for a deluge of trivial publications. Scientists see their research as craft work (Whitley,

The use of citation indicators to identify and support high-quality research in Poland

Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis, 2008

In large, mostly English-speaking countries, where the "critical mass" of scientists working in different subfields of science is achieved, the peer review system may be sufficient to assess the quality of scientific research. However, in smaller countries, outside the Anglo-American circle, it is important to introduce different systems to identify research of high quality. In Poland, a parametric system for assessing the quality of research has been introduced. It was largely based on the impact factor of scientific journals. While the use of this indicator to assess research quality is highly questionable, the implementation of the system in the Polish reality is even worse. Therefore it is important to change and improve the system currently used by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education to both evaluate and, more importantly, finance science in Poland. Here, a system based on three factors, i.e. the impact factor, the institutional h-index, and the institutional number of citations, is proposed. The scientific quality of institutions in Division VI: Medical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences were evaluated and the results were compared with the existing system. Moreover, a method to identify high-quality researchers and institutions at the national level based on the quantity of highly cited papers is shown. Additionally, an attempt to identify the highest quality Polish research on an international level is proposed. This is based on the number of individual citations, the individual h-index, the number of publications, and the priority of the discovery.

Individual bibliometric assessment at University of Vienna: From numbers to multidimensional profiles

El Profesional de la Información, 2016

Juan Gorraiz studied physics at the University of Madrid and at the University of Vienna, where he obtained his doctor's degree. He is Head of the Department for Bibliometrics and Publication Strategies of the Library and Archive Services, University of Vienna, which is specialized on supporting both researchers and decision-makers in research administration. He has been engaged in bibliometric analyses and studies since 2001. He has been teaching information retrieval and bibliometrics at the university course Library and Information Studies since 1992. Apart from his ongoing commitment to the European Summer School for Scientometrics he was the organizer and programme chair of the 10 th Intl Conf on Science & Technical Indicators 2008 in Vienna, as well as an organizer of the