Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 History and Institutionalization of Bibliometrics
6. 1.1 A Historical Overview of Bibliometrics 7
7. 1.2 Institutionalization and Professionalization of Bibliometrics 19
8. 1.3 Eugene Garfield and the Institute for Scientific Information 27
9. 1.4 Derek De Solla Price: The Father of Scientometrics 41
10. 1.5 Coevolution of Field and Institute: The Institutionalization of Bibliometric Research Illustrated by the Emergence and Flourishing of the CWTS 53
11. 1.6 International Conferences of Bibliometrics 65
12. 2 Theory, Principles and Methods of Bibliometrics
13. 2.1 Peer Review and Bibliometrics 77
14. 2.2 Jurisdiction of Bibliometrics 91
15. 2.3 National Research Evaluation Systems 99
16. 2.4 The Mathematical Embedding of Bibliometrics 107
17. 2.5 Bibliometrics in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 117
18. 2.6 Relationship between Peer Review and Bibliometrics 125
19. 3 (Classical) Indicators
20. 3.1 Measuring the Impact of Research – from Scholarly Communication to Broader Impact 135
21. 3.2 From Simple Publication Figures to Complex Indicators: Bibliometrics and the Dilemma of Methodological Correctness, Significance, and Economic Necessity 149
22. 3.3 The Journal Impact Factor: A Bibliometric Indicator with a Long Past 159
23. 3.4 The h-index 169
24. 4 Alternative Metrics (Altmetrics)
25. 4.1 The Future Has Already Begun: Origin, Classification, and Applications of Altmetrics in Scholarly Communication 181
26. 4.2 History, Development and Conceptual Predecessors of Altmetrics 191
27. 4.3 Social Media and Altmetrics 201
28. 4.4 Altmetric.com: A Brief History 215
29. 4.5 PlumX Metrics (Plum Analytics) in Practice 221
30. 4.6 PLOS Article-Level Metrics 235
31. 4.7 Eigenfactor 245
32. 4.8 Academic Social Networks and Bibliometrics 255
33. 4.9 ResearchGate and the Academic Social Network Sites: New Environments for New Bibliometrics? 265
34. 4.10 Mendeley 281
35. 5 Applications, Practice and Special Issues in Bibliometrics
36. 5.1 An Ecology of Measures and Indicators: Bibliometrics in Resource Allocation 291
37. 5.2 Benchmarkings and Rankings 299
38. 5.3 Technological Trend Analysis 311
39. 5.4 Research Collaboration and Bibliometric Performance 319
40. 5.5 On the Need for Accessibility, Standardization, Regulation, and Verification in Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto and Beyond 329
41. 5.6 Gender and Bibliometrics: A Review 335
42. 5.7 Visualization of Research Metrics 365
43. 5.8 Regional Distribution of Research: The Spatial Polarization in Question 377
44. 5.9 Bibliometrics and Co-Authorship 397
45. 6 The Data Basis in Bibliometrics
46. 6.1 Web of Science, Scopus and Further Citation Databases 409
47. 6.2 Expanding Dimensions: A New Source in the Bibliometrician’s Toolbox 421
48. 6.3 The Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC): The Construction and Application 431
49. 6.4 Institutional Repositories and Bibliometrics 455
50. 7 Teaching and Training
51. 7.1 Institutions for Bibliometric Qualification 465
52. 7.2 Bibliometrics in the Curriculum 475
53. 7.3 The Competent Bibliometrician – A Guided Tour through the Scholarly and Practitioner Literature 485
54. 8 The Future of Bibliometrics
55. 8.1 The Future of Bibliometrics: Where is Bibliometrics Heading? 499
56. 8.2 Open Science and the Future of Metrics 507
57. List of Contributors 517
58. Index 527