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

The University Library in Belgrade has a long tradition of bibliometric analysis of citations in the Web of Science, spanning over more than 25 years. The University of Belgrade has 31 faculties and 11 institutes where 5000 lecturers and 2000 researchers are employed. In the last three years, we had 1093 requests for citation and found 79,767 citations in total. The structure of academic staff, the number of requests to create a bibliography of cited papers and the number of citations are not directly correlated. Most researchers are employed at technical colleges, and the largest percentage of requests and citations are related to the biomedical disciplines. Social Sciences at the University of Belgrade are represented by 25% of employees, and in the statistical analysis of the results of the University Library by less than 1%. We have done a statistical analysis of the number of citations for certain fields such as medicine, chemistry, physics, technical sciences, social sciences,...