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The Sustainable Development Goals as a global policy provide universities with the opportunity to offer information and innovative solutions in international forums. In recent years, scientific research on the SDGs has not only grown, but has also diversified. However, the relevant gaps in studies on the subject affect compliance with the Agenda2030. This article aims to evaluate the Brazilian university system's research into SDGs. It also proposes a methodological objective which is to verify whether, through the analysis of scientific production, profiles can be identified, and university entities can be grouped based on their similarity in the priority they give to different topics. A bibliometric analysis is carried out where the production and normalized impact of Brazilian universities are studied, as well as a multidimensional scaling. The results reveal that the Brazilian production of each SDG is concentrated in five universities and that, in general, the entities' contribution to the SDGs achieve a lower impact than the world average except for the theme "Life on Land" (SDG15). This suggests that Brazilian research into the SDGs pursues a contribution of scientific knowledge of the local geographical scope. Furthermore, the data indicate the presence of few universities with unique profiles when it comes to prioritizing scientific contributions to the SDGs. Faced with the global challenge of more diverse and plural knowledge production, Brazilian centers can take advantage to expand their scientific production on the SDGs on a more strategic scale with the purpose of influencing the universal political agenda. The study enriches the understanding of the scientific contribution to the SDGs by Brazilian universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The field of Communication in Spain is analyzed, contextualizing Spanish output at a global and local level between the years 2000 and 2020. Based on a descriptive bibliometric analysis of the Communication category of the Social Sciences Citation Index database, part of Web of Science, the impact of the main countries is identified. The weight of the output in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) database between 2015 and 2020 is also studied. An analysis of the output by universities in Spain for the period 2010–2020 is also carried out, comparing it with the impact and the works in the first quartile. The results reveal that Spain has been the fourth country in terms of output in Communication in the last decade and that Austria stands out as the country whose works have the greatest impact. It is also observed that 67% of Spain’s works in Communication are published in journals that are indexed in ESCI. The impact of Spanish universities is very close to the world average. The Universitat Pompeu Fabra stands out, publishing the most articles and, furthermore, being the Spanish university with most papers in the first quartile of the JCR in Communication between 2010 and 2020. The study of the Shanghai Ranking by area includes eight Spanish universities, only three of which have output in Communication that comes mainly from professors in this area. The role of the Spanish journals Comunicar and Profesional de la información is notable, as they publish a large fraction of the output by Spanish universities in the Communication field. Finally, this paper presents the challenges of research in Communication, as well as those related to its bibliometric analysis, and a reflection on the problems that affect scientific production and research in this subject area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bibliometrics is facing an intricate universe of data that is constantly changing and expanding, with a wide ecosystem of data sources in which it is easy to get lost. In this complex setting, APIs are positioned as the perfect solution to deal with this heterogeneity and to obtain adapted data. Although APIs have not come as a surprise, it is now time to highlight their value and promote their use, which will make them easier to utilize. In this paper we therefore take a practical approach to APIs in the bibliometrics field. To this end, we provide an introduction to APIs and the new work processes that their use entails. We also offer a corpus in which we compile 49 APIs of interest to bibliometricians, organized by type and access, as well as programming packages in R and Python that facilitate their use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the current panorama of science evaluation, the limitations of citation indexes to study the social sciences and humanities have been the subject of wide debate. To resolve this situation, different products have been created for use in national contexts, since they cover certain aspects not contained in more international indices. An example is the In-RECS family, where an indicator such as the impact factor of Eugene Garfield is defined, but its contribution lies in the ability to evaluate research in Spain by obtaining citation indicators. This paper thus highlights the need to create new products for research evaluation in general, but particularly in the social sciences and humanities. The context in which different alternatives arise and are developed to evaluate existing journals is presented, along with Dialnet Metrics, a citation index developed by the Dialnet Foundation in collaboration with the EC3 Group and dozens of Spanish universities. Based on an analysis of the citations of source journals from different subject areas, Dialnet Metrics provides indicators to evaluate the research impact at different levels. This bibliometric product enables contextualized analysis at the micro (researchers), meso (journals), and macro (areas and universities) levels. Finally, the content, data volumes, and structure of this citation index are described quantitatively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Institutional offices for the communication and dissemination of science are gaining in importance at Spanish universities, and their activities can contribute to increasing the visibility and reputation of researchers. The objective of this study is to analyze the relations between the institutional communication of research results to the public and the impact and academic visibility of scientific papers. For this purpose, science communication and dissemination undertaken through press releases on R+D+i results from the Science Culture and Innovation Unit (SCIU) at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) were selected as a case study. This SCIU was chosen because it has published yearly reports for more than a decade on the impact in the media of its press releases. Press dossiers of the last five years available (2014-2018) were examined, and a database was created of the citations received by texts published in scientific journals indexed in the Web of Science as well as their mentions on social networks through the company Altmetric.com. After that, this information was statistically analyzed. The main results show that the journal impact index is important for obtaining academic citations or appearing in Twitter conversations. However, the influence of the journal impact factor turns out to be lower when it comes to popularizing scientific publications in the media. Furthermore, the statistical evidence points to the fact that scientific publications disseminated through the SCIU receive proportionally more citations than research that has not been disseminated through the institutional channel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific journals are a fundamental instrument for the dissemination of research results. Spanish Library and Information Science (LIS) journals have achieved a prominent presence in international databases. By studying the articles published in them, it is possible to determine the thematic evolution of research in LIS, a subject on which few studies are available. The current work presents a bibliometric and thematic analysis of Spanish journals included in the Information Science and Library Science category of the Web of Science between 2015 and 2019. On the one hand, the production of the journals is identified and analyzed individually and as a group, according to the data available in the WoS Core Collection, considering the productivity of authors, citations, organizations, countries, and core publications. On the other hand, the production of journals as a whole is analyzed using SciMAT, an open-source software tool developed to perform science mapping analysis in a longitudinal framework by identifying research themes that have been the object of research during the period of analysis as well as their composition, relationship, and evolution. The results highlight the specialization of Spanish LIS journals in a series of topics that can be grouped into five main areas, in order of importance: social networks and digital media, bibliometrics and scholarly communication, open access, open data and big data, libraries, and information and knowledge management. Likewise, these journals have opened up their thematic focus to other disciplines, among which Communication stands out prominently, as reflected in the established thematic categories. This study establishes a reference framework for researchers in the Information Science and Library Science area, making it possible to understand new relationships and research opportunities both inside and outside the original knowledge area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An overview of the research trends on organizational communication generated by Spanish authors in high impact journals between 2014 and 2018 is offered. Variables such as the year of publication, the source or the number of citations, as well as characteristics of authorship and issues addressed are analyzed. The results show a discrete but stable presence of this type of studies, with variety of sources, especially Spanish journals, and issues, although online communication accounts for almost a third of total articles. The diversity of authors and universities is also notorious, but a small group of institutions concentrates an important part of the research. It is remarkable the high number of works signed in co-authorship, and a percentage of female authorship over 50%. More than half of the items in the sample have never been cited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Metrics usage are becoming more important since the main sources of scientific information facilitate them. In this work, exposure years, citations and usage counts of the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) were collected for a sample of multidisciplinary documents with high citation rates on a specific topic: entrepreneurship. The h-classic methodology was applied to obtain a representative group of documents and the statistical relationships established between the three variables were studied. The results showed how the years of exposure imply a decrease in usage counts, but do not influence the citations received in the long term. Citations and usage counts have a clearly direct and positive correlation that allows to predict either of the two variables from the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aims to analyse the contribution that academic journals make to their university brand. To this end, the presence of journals and university in the reference databases (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, part of Web of Science) are identified. Later, a bibliometric analysis is carried out to describe the population of journals studied, analysing elements such as distribution by country, publishing universities, co-publishing, indexing success rates, presence by area and scientific impact. Finally 1,492 journals published by 387 universities in 56 countries are identified. Anglo-Saxon universities stand out for their high number of journals indexed in WoS, especially Oxford and Cambridge, which together account for 38.7% of the titles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to know to what extent the Altmetric Attention Score (AAScore) can be reproduced. A sample of more than 28,000 research articles extracted from the public API of Altmetric. com were employed to reproduce the AAScore from the weights published in Altmetric.com. The indicator was correctly replicated in 13.2% of the cases, increasing the errors as the impact increases. The metrics that influence the most on the non-reproducibility are Tweeters (44%), news (16%) and blogs (12%). The main reason of this problem is the existence of non-published scoring criteria that impede the replication. This fact is an important limitation to the use of AAScore as research evaluation indicator. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bibliometric indicators of production and impact of e-learning research are analyzed to know the contribution of countries and institutions in the scientific development of this subject and to strengthen its characterization as knowledge domain. We extracted bibliometric indicators from 39,244 documents indexed in Scopus and SCImago Institutional Rankings, and generated maps of production and collaboration networks and graphics about the impact of e-learning research in countries and institutions. The results of this combined analysis showed that at country level the United States produce most of the works and generated the greatest international collaboration. At institutional level, the University of Hong Kong is the most productive and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology is the one with the greatest collaboration. In addition, the analysis showed that Taiwan ranks first in productivity and impact, which is why we linked these results to a brief analysis of its national policies. This study presents a new method to analyze both emerging and established knowledge domains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The news media's citations of journals, authors, and papers have been used avant la letre to study the impact of science in the lay press and some characteristics of scientific journalism. In this paper, the concepts of press citation and media impact are outlined by analogy to those of scientific citation and scientific impact, establishing their similarities and differences. Some possibilities of study using press citations counts are also outlined, as well as the development of new bibliometric indicators to measure the media impact of science. The analysis of press citations has advantages over alternative metrics (altmetrics) because the press is the main news producer and offers a more consolidated product with a professional filter. However, press citations also have some limitations, mainly the lack of a database of press citations from scientific journals in the international lay press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spin-offs are one of the most attractive areas of research; associated with the phenomena of entrepreneurship, innovation, and knowledge transfer. The present study shows that the selection and use of appropriate bibliometric indicators are a highly valuable method for studying emerging topics and analyzing the development and diffusion of the topic under research, including its process of emergence and growth. The primary aspects observed in relation to the development of university spin-off research includes the boom in the number of publications on the topic after a long period of latency and the pronounced multidisciplinary nature of the research. Our approach encompasses the evolution of scientific publication activity in the area, the scientific agents involved with it, and the cooperative practices and structural characteristics of the co-authorship network at different analytical levels. Also, this research explores cited literature, the evolution of key biblio-metric indicators, and adds a validating qualitative analysis of content by an expert in the field. Moreover, the emergence of the topic is shown to overlap between seminal authors' early research contributions to the topic and the time when they become investigators of reference in the field, with their work featured among the most highly cited documents. Last but not least, the age of the cited bibliography constitutes a prominent indicator for establishing the emerging nature of a topic as well as its stage of development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The overarching aim of this work is to provide a detailed description of the free version of Dimensions (new bibliographic database produced by Digital Science and launched in January 2018). To do this, the work is divided into two differentiated blocks. First, its characteristics, operation, and features are described, focusing on its main strengths and weaknesses. Secondly, an analysis of its coverage is carried out (comparing it against Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus and Google Scholar) in order to determine whether the bibliometric indicators offered by Dimensions have an order of magnitude significant enough to be used. To this end, an analysis is carried out at three levels: journals (sample of 20 publications in 'Library & Information Science'), documents (276 articles published by the Journal of informetrics between 2013 and 2015), and authors (28 people awarded with the Derek de Solla Price prize). Preliminary results indicate that Dimensions has coverage of the recent literature superior to Scopus, although inferior to Google Scholar. With regard to the number of citations received, Dimensions offers slightly lower figures than Scopus. Despite this, the number of citations in Dimensions exhibits a strong correlation with Scopus and somewhat less (although still significant) with Google Scholar. For this reason, it is concluded that Dimensions is an alternative for carrying out citation studies, able to rival Scopus (greater coverage and free of charge) and Google Scholar (greater functionalities for the treatment and data export). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An overview of the metrics available to evaluate scientific production is presented. The classic indicators, based on citations, and the altmetric indicators, based on downloads and the impact on social networks, are compared. In addition, the advantages and disadvantages of the two types of indicators are highlighted. The need for a classification of the indicators, that would help apply them correctly, is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After an overview of the changes that are taking place in the world of bibliographic databases used for scientific search and evaluation, this work describes the free version of Dimensions (bibliographic database produced by Digital Science and launched in January 2018). As a first step, a sketch is made of its main characteristics, operations, and features. We conclude that Dimensions is an interesting alternative for the search of scientific information, as well as for the analysis of citations, because it is able to compete with both Scopus (greater coverage and also free of charge) and Google scholar (greater functionalities for the treatment and export of data). Therefore, it is a hybrid product halfway between the classic bibliographic databases and the modern academic search engines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While general publication practices clearly differ between disciplines, knowledge about scientometric indicators can also greatly vary. The observed heterogeneity in bibliometric knowledge inspired us to define the concept of 'metric-wiseness' for researchers. Being metric-wise can lead to an advantage for knowledgeable researchers over uninformed colleagues, even when they are of otherwise equal competence. We identify two paths through which metric-wiseness can play a role and lead to behavioural changes in the research process. As a first path, metric-wiseness can be seen as an additional tool that is useful in reporting one's research portfolio. A second one is more ambiguous and has some undesirable aspects, possibly diminishing intrinsic motivational factors for doing research. Innovation and innovative research slows down if crowding out happens due to an excessive attention to scientometric indicators. We propose an approach to actually measure metric-wiseness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bibliometric services are being consolidated in the Spanish academic field due to growing interest in academic performance by university managers and leaders. Academic librarians are a key part of the bibliometric services because of their expertise in providing support and training to researchers and advice in research assessment. Bibliometric services functions and the current landscape of bibliometric services in Spain are described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows how bibliometric assessment can be implemented at individual level. This has been successfully done at the University of Vienna carried out by the Department for Bibliometrics and Publication Strategies of the Vienna University Library. According to the department's philosophy, bibliometrics is not only a helpful evaluation instrument in order to complement the peer review system. It is also meant as a compass for researchers in the 'publish or perish' dilemma in order to increase general visibility and to optimize publication strategies. The individual assessment comprises of an interview with the researcher under evaluation, the elaboration of a bibliometric report of the researcher's publication output, the discussion and validation of the obtained results with the researcher under evaluation as well as further optional analyses. The produced bibliometric reports are provided to the researchers themselves and inform them about the quantitative aspects of their research output. They also serve as a basis for further discussion concerning their publication strategies. These reports are eventually intended for informed peer review practices, and are therefore forwarded to the quality assurance and the Rector's office and finally sent to the peers. The most important feature of the generated bibliometric report is its multidimensional and individual character. It relies on a variety of basic indicators and further control parameters in order to foster comprehensibility. Researchers, administrative staff and peers alike have confirmed the usefulness of this bibliometric approach. An increasing demand is noticeable. In total, 33 bibliometric reports have been delivered so far. Moreover, similar reports have also been produced for the bibliometric assessment of two faculties with great success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main goal of this article is to describe the purpose and content of a new branch of bibliometrics: ALMetrics (Author- Level Metrics). ALMetrics is focused on the quantitative analysis of an author's performance by measuring the dimensions of their intellectual activity as shown through varied metric indicators. This article will list, define, and classify the different metrics that are offered in newer information portals that showcase the scientific activity of authors. These metrics are grouped into five sets: bibliometrics (publication and citation), usage, participation, rating, social connectivity, and composite indicators. This new bibliometric specialty is necessary because of new trends in scientific assessment, which have moved analysis away from old bibliometrics (based on journal analysis and Impact Factor) towards new bibliometrics that analyze both documents and authors via a mix of indicators. Most importantly, ALMetrics responds to the researchers' desire for both knowledge and acknowledgement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The field of development studies analyses causes and potential solutions for global poverty and inequality. Since the Second World War there have been major changes in theories about the root causes of global poverty and the strategies necessary to tackle it. This article views the history of development studies from the perspective of the role of economics during 1975- 2014. A topic modelling analysis of published journal articles from Scopus suggests that there has been a relative decline in research that focuses on economics, and particularly for research concerned with firms and growth. In parallel, the analysis suggests that there has been a relatively slow increase in interest in the environment, a lack of scholarly interest in BRICS and dependency theory, and a relatively homogeneous treatment of gender issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A bibliometric analysis of research production in scientific journals, of the Scopus subject category Food Science, between 2003 and 2013, from seventy-one Spanish institutions with at least fifty works published, is presented. Statistical z tests are used for an evaluation of the degree to which an observed number of top-cited papers (top-10%) for an institution differs from the number expected, on the basis of randomness in the selection of papers. A map has been generated that displays inter-institutional collaboration networks; activity and impact values are displayed. The results show the most active institutions, located primarily in Madrid, Cataluña, Valencia, and Murcia, belong to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Catalonian research institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the end of the 1980s, citation impact values -especially for evaluative purposes- are increasingly presented as fieldnormalized citation scores than as bare citation counts or citation rates. In rather popular variants of the scores, the average score over a publication year is not exactly one due to multiple Web of Science subject categories per paper. We propose a scaling method which introduces slight changes in the field-normalized scores of each paper that ensures that the average value of all scores equals one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is quite common in the library and information world to find mobile applications (apps) to query scientific journals, bibliographic databases or university libraries. However, there are no apps that offer bibliometric indicators about universities, researchers, etc. We describe the development and functionality of the pioneer bibliometric app UGRinvestiga, launched on January 2015, which offers rankings of researchers from the University of Granada based on citations collected from Google Scholar Profiles. Information on the technical features of the app, the data collection process, the indicators used, the current coverage of researchers and a description of its interface and functionalities are described. Finally we emphasize the great potential of mobile applications as a tool for representing and disseminating bibliometric data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the recent years, the subject of university rankings has attracted a significant amount of attention and sparked a scientific debate. However, few studies on this topic focus on elaborating the scientific performance of universities' institutions, such as institutes, schools, and faculties. For this reason, the aim of this study is to design an appropriate framework for evaluating and ranking institutions within a university. The devised methodology ranks institutions based on the number of published papers, mean normalized citation score (MNCS), and four percentile-based indicators using the I-distance method. We applied the proposed framework and scrutinized the University of Belgrade (UB) as the biggest and the best-ranked university in Serbia. Thus, 31 faculties and 11 institutes were compared. Namely, an in-depth percentile-based analysis of the UB papers indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIe) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) for the period 2008-2011 is provided. The results clearly show considerable discrepancies in two occasions: first, when it comes to the question of leading author, and second, when it comes to analyzing the percentile rank classes (PRs) of groups of faculties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last few years, the Library of the University of Navarra has taken on new librarian roles, mainly related to research support. Along with tasks such as on-demand training sessions and the promotion of open access to the Library's repository, we have started several new lines of research support. These primarily focus on advising professors about accreditation processes and six-year research evaluations, and providing data review and item validation support for the institutional research management system. We analyze these new roles and tasks that have been undertaken, together with their impact on traditional tasks, their benefits, and new perspectives for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zipf's law is a theory based on mathematics and linguistics that analyzes and quantifies how words are distributed within a text. It is possible to represent by graphs and statistical analyzes which are the terms that are repeated over so that a ranking of keywords is created. This research found, through the Zipf's law, variations and uniformities of written academic papers and they presented orally. The oral presentations were inserted in video form on YouTube, it was possible to recover automatically the transcript of the audio. Using a Bash script, texts and transcribed presentations were quantified and organized, thereby creating tag clouds and tables with rankings, facilitating the analysis of the contents. It was possible to identify the spheres of content, identifying common words or not and, mathematically, analyze and compare what was written with what was presented in oral discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes the application of the three main Bibliometrics laws -Lotka, Zipf, and Bradford- to address the following questions: (i) How to be sure of the quality of publishers and contents in scholarly publishing, and (ii) How to determine content reliability. Our main goal is to evaluate the visibility of Transinformação, a Brazilian scholarly journal in the information science area, according to its productivity, citation counts, and performance indicators. This study focusses on the concepts of Bibliometrics and Scholarly Journals, presenting a brief history of scholarly publishing and its accessibility in Brazil, as well as the software tools used in this work. This is an exploratory documentary study, based on descriptive mixed methods (i.e., both qualitative and quantitative), that analyzes 24 years of Transinformação issues, from its first edition in 1989 to 2011. Descriptive statistics tables are used to show the results obtained from analyses carried out with Publish or perish, Microsoft Excel, and Web of science Citespace tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This umpteenth statement, although doubtlessly brilliant, arrives late and badly, since it not only insists on a strategy that has not worked but also avoids building the consensus that is necessary in the Spanish-speaking bibliometric community, a community that may not be mustered in this way to the extent that it remains far from a unanimous position. There will be conflicting interests, academic debate, and various publications, but action must finally occur via powerful lobbies, direct interviews with those responsible, and alternative, practical approaches. This letter, beyond its correct evaluations, does not propose real or viable scenarios, and not even short- or medium-term transitions, much less strategies that would be sustainable over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The H-Index Scholar is a bibliometric index that measures the productivity and scientific impact of the academic production in humanities and social sciences by professors and researchers at public Spanish universities. The methodology consisted of counting their publications and citations received in Google Scholar. The main features and characteristics of the index are explained. Despite technical and methodological problems that Google Scholar might have as a source of information, the authors estimate that they do not affect substantially the calculated h and g indexes, probably being the error lower than 10%. The total population analyzed was 40,993 researchers, but data are displayed only for 13,518 researchers, the ones located in the first tertile of their respective areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study makes a comparative analysis between two Spanish academic communities, Communication and Library and Information Sciences. The set-up of these academic programmes in Spain, along with their size and the international scientific production of each community, is briefly described and compared. These communities are relatively new, being Library and Information Sciences the more recently implemented. The numbers differ greatly, both in the universities that offer these studies and in the size of their communities; there are five times as many professors in Communication as in Library and Information Sciences. In contrast,Library and Information Sciences has an international scientific productivity three times that of Communication, with articles published in journals with a higher impact factor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The peg of this report is the 14th edition of the International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics (ISSI) Conference, which was held in Vienna in 2013 and was by far the biggest event in this field. Based on this conference the author discusses the hottest and most controversial topics, which bibliometricians and scientometricians will have to face within the next years and even beyond. These are, amongst others, the adjustment of the peer review process to the challenges of the digital era, the crucial role of research data, the rise and necessity of new metrics, as well as the reconsideration of our proxys. Furthermore it is pointed out to which degree all these novel possibilities in the dissemination and promotion of research output will inevitably influence the role of future scientists. Finally, a short reflection on the scientometric community during this crucial period of change is given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The open access SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) service -built from data in the subscription-based Elsevier's Scopus database- offers bibliographic information and bibliometric indicators for nearly 20,000 journals and other serial publications for 1996-2011. Journals are assigned to 300+ pre-defined subject categories and 26 broad subject areas to produce league lists. The set of 134 journals assigned to the Library and Information Sciences (LIS) subject category and a sample set of 50 other LIS journals, scattered across several other categories, were analyzed in the latest edition (SJR- 2011). Recommendations are made on how SJR could be enhanced by its developers to include simple customization options in the interface to facilitate a more efficient look-up and more valid comparison of the standing of journals and other serials and to reflect the prevailing preferences at the institutions where the rank positions in journal league lists are used to inform career advancement and funding decisions. It is argued that extending the current three-year citation window to five years would be more appropriate for all disciplines, and would also make SJR comparable to metricsbased journal league lists produced from the open access Microsoft Academic Search (MAS), Google Scholar Metrics for Publications (GSMP), and Eigenfactor.org (EF) data and the subscription-based Journal Citation Reports (JCR), which pioneered the idea of a metrics-based journal league list. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study gives an overview of the process of clustering scientific disciplines using hybrid methods, detecting and labelling emerging topics and analysing the results using bibliometrics methods. The hybrid clustering techniques are based on biblographic coupling and text-mining and 'core documents', and cross-citation links are used to identify emerging fields. The collaboration network of those countries that proved to be most active in the underlying disciplines, in combination with a set of standard indicators, form the groundwork for the bibliometric analysis of the detected emerging research topics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An analysis of the situation of scientific communication in 2011 highlights some of the more relevant events, news and issues. Topics discussed include: the open access initiative and institutional repositories, semantic interoperability and linked data, use of the internet, right to information, rise of professional and academic profiles on the Web, trends in bibliometric indicators, consolidation of national scientific evaluation tools, trends observed in conferences and congresses, and the race for rankings in scientific publication between the United States, China and Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Google scholar citations, a system aimed at researchers, attempts to outline researchers' bibliometric profile, providing citation indicators and the h-index. We review other tools designed to measure visibility and academic impact on the web, such as Microsoft academic search and the new initiatives grouped under the label altmetrics or alternative indicators. Finally, we discuss how the appearance of Google scholar citations and other products may affect the two major sources of bibliometric data, ISI Web of science and Scopus, and how this can influence the evaluation of scientific research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the Web applications to manage literature in Biomedical Sciences. We identified, examined and described 28 academic utilities that perform automated analysis. They are user-friendly, and altogether provide better search, retrieval, management and metaanalysis (bibliometrics, network analyses and text mining) of PubMed literature in an efficient, automated, updated and systematized manner that facilitates the simultaneous handling of large quantities of paper records, making it possible for the user to choose the most relevant. All of these initiatives address the needs and challenges of biomedical research in our time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ISOC database is presented as an information system that is very useful for the dissemination and the study of scientific production in human and social sciences in Spain since 1975. First of all, an historical overview is proposed. Secondly, quality elements that distinguish ISOC from other documentary systems are described. Thirdly, its suitability for bibliometric studies on the scientific production of these subjects published in Spain is discussed. Finally, some data about its use by the scientific and scholarly community are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Google Scholar is a search engine that specializes in scientific information and in the identification of the citations that academic papers receive, making it a strong competitor for other citations indexes. For this reason, several studies have attempted to evaluate its capacity as a bibliometric tool. Due to this interest, we present an introduction to its use and the advantages and disadvantages versus Scopus and Web of Science. First, its way of collecting information and features of its interface are analyzed. The following section describes the results that Google Scholar generates. Thirdly, we analyze the coverage of information sources and the different document types to be found, showing how this coverage universe offers different citations versus other products. Finally, we specify the standardization problems of Google Scholar and offer a number of precautions that must be taken into account when using Google Scholar as an evaluation tool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the information provided for free by Thomson Reuters in ScienceWatch.com, production and citation data of the scientific disciplines are analyzed for Spain, determining the relative weight of each one both nationally and internationally throughout the past 10 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Production and citation rankings of the top 25 world science countries are presented from the free data provided by Thomson Reuters in ScienceWatch.com. The development of Spain is discussed in detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The wide variety of bibliometric information resources offered for free by Thomson Scientific's ScienceWatch.com is presented, and their principal applications in scientific libraries are described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study presents a general view of the scientific and technological production in the ICT sector of the industry in Spain during the period 1996–2000 and its relative weight in the national production, through bibliometric techniques, with the aim of exploring the character of its outputs, both in terms of publications and patents, focusing the attention on the position and contribution of Spanish ICT scientific and technological capabilities. Indicators at macro–meso level are presented by: geographic region, thematic areas and enterprises. Results about scientific activity in companies show a very short commitment to R+D, low number of patents, scarce participation in international publications, as well as insufficient interaction between public and private sectors. Scientific production comes basically from public sector (Universities and CSIC), while the technological activity is located in very few enterprises which patent mainly in the Spanish office. A closer look into Spanish regions reflects a high concentration in Madrid and Catalonia in publications; nevertheless, Navarra and Basque Country stand out in patents. Results reflect that Industry is not taking advantage of the public sector research efforts for its development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An analysis was carried out of the thematic evolution and distribution of literature related to agriculture from the Scientific Agricultural Complex. The works chosen were those appearing in Agris and Cab Abstracts during the period 1995-2000. A total of 1,601 references, distributed in 41 national and foreign agricultural journals, were compiled. Thematic evolution showed a large contribution in the following areas: animal feed (9.2%), plant breeding (9.1%), plant physiology (8.8%), animal nutrition (6.8%), plant diseases (5.9%), plant production (5.9%), fertilisation (5.7%), animal physiology (4.9%), crop techniques (4.3%), animal husbandry (4.1%), plant pests (4.1%), techniques and methodologies (3.5%) and animal reproduction (2.9%). By facilitating the identification of poorly represented themes among the published corpus, the analysis detects certain fragility in several subject areas which could be essential for the scientific development of Cuban agriculture, such as animal husbandry, phytopathology and animal reproduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]