The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators

<p>Acknowledgement</p> <p>About the author</p> <p>List of figures and tables</p> <p>Chapter 1: Introduction</p> <p>Chapter 2: Basic categories of scientometrics</p> <p>Concluding remarks</p> <p>Chapter 3: Classification of the indicators of evaluative scientometrics</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Classification scheme of evaluative indicators</p> <p>Concluding remarks</p> <p>Chapter 4: Publication growth in science</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Relative publication growth index</p> <p>Concluding remarks</p> <p>Chapter 5: Scientific eminence of journals: the Garfield Factor and the Current Contribution Index</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Standardised description of the Garfield Factor</p> <p>Chances for citation and chances for citedness</p> <p>The Garfield Factor and relative publication growth</p> <p>Some empirical findings</p> <p>An empirical model</p> <p>Towards understanding the Garfield Factor</p> <p>The GF and the SIC index</p> <p>Relationship between quantity and quality: growth and specific indices</p> <p>The Current Contribution Index (CCI)</p> <p>The πV-index</p> <p>Concluding remarks</p> <p>Chapter 6: The ageing of scientific information</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Annual citedness and annual citedness rates</p> <p>Conversion of Journal Paper Citedness indices or Garfield Factors calculated for different time periods</p> <p>Calculating the Estimated Number of Citations (ENC) by the Subsequent Impact Method (SIM)</p> <p>Concluding remarks</p> <p>Chapter 7: Scientometric indicators for the assessment of publications</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Definition and function of comparative indicators of evaluative scientometrics</p> <p>Relationships between three relative impact indicators (RW, RCR, RPS)</p> <p>The Invitation Paradox</p> <p>Model for the selection of relative publication impact indicators</p> <p>Composite scientometric indicators</p> <p>The h-index and the π-index</p> <p>Concluding remarks</p> <p>Chapter 8: Reference strategy: model of manifested communication through publications</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Reference strategy</p> <p>Laws of reference strategy</p> <p>The model of manifested communication through publications</p> <p>Concluding remarks</p> <p>Chapter 9: Frequency of and strength of motives in referencing: the Reference Threshold Model</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>The frequency and strength of motives in referencing</p> <p>Concluding remarks</p> <p>Chapter 10: Research contribution and share of credit of individual authors</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Distributing credit of publications among co-authors</p> <p>Concluding remarks</p> <p>Chapter 11: Standards in scientometric assessments</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p> Bibliometric factors</p> <p> Effect of bibliometric factors on the GF of journals</p> <p>Selecting sets of papers and journals as reference standards</p> <p> Standardisation of citedness indicators using standardised publication and citation time windows</p> <p>Dependence of JPC on the type of publication</p> <p> Methods for obtaining absolute reference standards for relative impact indicators</p> <p> Delineating journals by subject field</p> <p>Methods for standardising GFs</p> <p>Methods for determining ordinal rank scores in sets of different size</p> <p>Standardising part-indicators</p> <p>Concluding remarks</p> <p>Chapter 12: Scientometric assessments: application of scientometrics for the purposes of science policy</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Scientometric methods for the evaluation of research organisations</p> <p>Evaluating publications of research institutes by a composite scientometric indicator</p> <p>Scientometric indicators and GDP</p> <p>Concluding remarks</p> <p>Chapter 13: Institutionalisation of Scientific Information: a scientometric model (ISI-S model)</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>The ISI-S model</p> <p>Concluding remarks</p> <p>Chapter 14: Conclusions</p> <p>References</p> <p>Author index</p> <p>Subject index</p>