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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Bibliometrics"”.
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Qualitative Attributes and the Bradford Distribution (Bibliometrics, Evaluation)
Two related questions were the motivation behind this study: (1) Is it possible to find articles of similar quality in journals drawn from different zones of the Bradford distribution? (2) Are there any bibliometric indicators that may correlate well with the qualitative attributes of an article?
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Literature Sources in Elementary and Early Childhood Education (Bibliometrics, Eric, Citation Analysis)
This bibliometric study assesses literature sources of elementary and early childhood education documents sampled from a 30-month input to the ERIC database by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education. The identified ERIC document population is grouped according to …
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Methods for bibliometric analysis of research : renewable energy case study
… analyzing a field of research through the use of bibliometrics, i.e., information about published journal articles. Online publication search engines are queried, and their search results are extracted and analyzed, to help inform a researcher of the state of his or her field. Our methodology …
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Developing a holistic framework for assessing research impact in South African higher education institutions, using a research-intensive university as a case study
… thematically with NVivo. The study found that bibliometrics were the most used metric indicator for the 'Advancing knowledge' benefit category and academics and researchers surveyed seem satisfied with the use of bibliometrics to evidence this benefit category. Qualitative indicators were …
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Citation Context Analysis of Theory Use in Instructional Design and Technology Academic Articles
… knowledge and augments discourse analysis and bibliometrics by examining the context in which theory is incorporated into academic publication.
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Interdisciplinaridade na pós-graduação: estudo de seu impacto na produção de teses e dissertações do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História das Ciências e das Técnicas e Epistemologia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
… we used the Goffman Transition Point formula, Bibliometrics methodology, Research area of Information Science, in order to identify words with semantic content among the analyzed material. The results demonstrate the efficiency of the application of the Law presenting a representative picture …
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Measuring the impact of research outputs from the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) on the scholarly domain and in social media, 1995-2015
… and to measure its visibility and impact through bibliometrics and altmetrics. It was the first time that such a study had been done. The Web of Science Citation Index and Scopus are two commercial databases that have recently been joined by Google Scholar, the first open database of scholarly …
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BRAPCI: o panorama da conservação, preservação e restauração de documentos no Brasil
… in the Information Science area in Brazil, from bibliometrics and scientometrics. It uses the Referential Database of Articles and Journals in Information Sciences (Brapci) as a source of empirical data about the scientific production limited to that theme. Noticing the attendance that the issue …
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Distribuição da literatura científica brasileira: estudo bibliométrico
Bibliometrics - "quantitative treatment of the properties and behaviour of recorded information" - has been widely applied in the last fewn years. Among the bibliometric laws, Bradford’s law, also called "laws of dispersion of literature" - stands out as one of the most widely known and …
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Appropriating Wittgenstein: Patterns of Influence and Citation in Realist and Social Constructivist Accounts of Science
… rely exclusively on intellectual histories, bibliometrics, and globablizing statements about the products of science suffer serious limitations. In short, this thesis reflexively shows that the methods upon which it is based allow room for considerable bias and manipulation, and thereby …
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Semiometrics: producing a compositional view of influence
… data sources. These metrics, termed 'Semantic Bibliometrics' or 'Semiometrics', can be applied at a variety of levels of granularity, allowing a compositional framework for impact and influence analysis. This thesis describes the process of data preparation, systems architecture, metric value …
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Statistical modeling of heterogeneous data
… citation analysis for research evaluation. In bibliometrics one central task is to characterize the statistical distribution of citations. This problem has been regarded as a challenging one for two reasons: (i) the citation distributions of almost all the subject areas are highly right-skewed; …
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The impact of author name disambiguation on knowledge discovery from large-scale scholarly data
… ambiguity. I test this long-held assumption in bibliometrics by measuring the impact of author name ambiguity on network properties. I accomplish this under varying conditions, including network size and cumulative time window (from 1991 to 2009) using four large-scale bibliometric datasets that …
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Research support from academic law libraries in the Western Cape in the scholarly legal research lifecycle
… The study revealed that newer services, such as bibliometrics and research data services, could have applicability, although law librarians would need to adapt such services to the legal context. A disconnect between legal scholars and the law libraries that serviced them was seen in terms of …
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The Clergy and Print in Eighteenth-Century England, c. 1714-1750
… in the field of digital humanities and bibliometrics to create a representative sample of the print output of the Anglican clergy over the ‘long’ eighteenth-century (here 1660-1800). Based on statistical trends, the thesis identifies a crucial period in the history of clerical print …
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A critical analysis of the participation of the University of Cape Town community in the advancement of open scholarship: towards a strategy for the promotion of open scholarship
… research impact assessment with traditional bibliometrics indicators such as high impact factor of journals, which influence researchers to embrace a closed publishing culture. Lack of inclusion of open scholarship achievements in promotion criteria and inadequate APCs funding have been …
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Hype and diversity in science: a bibliometric study of biomedical literature
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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An Effective End-User Development Approach through Domain-Specific Mashups for Research Impact Evaluation
… projects. One particular assessment approach is bibliometrics i.e., the quantitative analysis of scientific publications through citation and content analysis. However, there is little consensus today on how research evaluation should be performed, and it is commonly acknowledged that the …
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Increasing the Reach, Usage, and Impact of Scholarly Content
Scholarly communication is facing an information overload crisis. There are now over 8,000 new papers published daily. Aside from the difficulty readers face in keeping up with the literature, the deluge of papers is making it less likely for any given paper to be read, used, and ultimately cited. …
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Mechanisms driving the formation and success of collaborations between scientists in biomedicine
"Despite decades of research into human social behavior, mechanisms that allow collaborations between scientists to form and thrive are not well understood. Surveys, interviews, and studies of laboratories inform most of what is known about collaboration; yet each method has limited scalability. …
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