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Welch Journal Club

July 28, 2008

Recent Trends in Citation Analysis and its Use
Claire Twose, Associate Director, Public Health and Basic Science Liaison Services

Further Reading: Opinion and summary, from an international perspective: Fatal attraction: Conceptual and methodological problems in the ranking of universities by bibliometric methods (2005) Van Raan, A.F.J. Scientometrics 62 (1), pp. 133-143 Hirsch, J. E. (2005). An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(46), 16569-16572.

Readings:

Data sources for performing citation analysis: an overview
Factors and indices are one thing, deciding who is scholarly, why they are scholarly, and the relative value of their scholarship is something else entirely.
The use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance
News piece describing H-index: