Title: Bibliometrics: Understanding Author-, Article- and Journal-Level Metrics.
Authors: Mering, Margaret
Abstract: Numerous types of metrics are available to assist in the evaluation of scholarship. The focus for this column of In Lay Terms is bibliometrics, the quantitative analysis of publication data using article-, author-, and journal-level data. Citation analysis is the most commonly used bibliometric method. It includes analyzing the number of articles published by an author, the number of citations from those articles, and the ranking of the journals in which those articles were published. This column compares bibliometrics found in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar and considers the relationship of these metrics to the field of library and information science.
Subjects: PERIODICAL publishing; BIBLIOMETRICS; GOOGLE Scholar (Web resource); CITATION analysis; INFORMATION science
Publication: Serials Review, 2017, Vol 43, Issue 1, p41
ISSN: 0098-7913
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1080/00987913.2017.1282288

Bibliometrics: Understanding Author-, Article- and Journal-Level Metrics.

Mering, Margaret