Journal: Scientometrics

Volume 92, Issue 3

505 -- 521Zahed Bigdeli, Ali Gazni. Authors' sources of information: a new dimension in information scattering
523 -- 548Chan-Yuan Wong, Kim-Leng Goh. The pathway of development: science and technology of NIEs and selected Asian emerging economies
549 -- 573V. Rodriguez, A. Soeparwata. ASEAN benchmarking in terms of science, technology, and innovation from 1999 to 2009
575 -- 591Keshra Sangwal. Progressive nucleation mechanism for the growth behavior of items and its application to cumulative papers and citations of individual authors
593 -- 608Ehsan Mohammadi. Knowledge mapping of the Iranian nanoscience and technology: a text mining approach
609 -- 619Satya Ranjan Sahu, Krushna Chandra Panda. A deductive approach to select or rank journals in multifaceted subject, Oceanography
621 -- 641Fiorenzo Franceschini, Maurizio Galetto, Domenico A. Maisano, Luca Mastrogiacomo. The success-index: an alternative approach to the h-index for evaluating an individual's research output
643 -- 655Keshra Sangwal. Application of progressive nucleation mechanism for the citation behavior of individual papers of different authors
657 -- 674H. Martinez, A. Jaime, J. Camacho. Relative absorptive capacity: a research profiling
675 -- 695Alan Peter Matthews. South African universities in world rankings
697 -- 710Renato X. Coutinho, Eliziane S. Dávila, Wendel M. dos Santos, João B. T. Rocha, Diogo O. G. Souza, Vanderlei Folmer, Robson L. Puntel. Brazilian scientific production in science education
711 -- 719Marcelo Alves Ramos, Joabe Gomes Melo, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque. Citation behavior in popular scientific papers: what is behind obscure citations? The case of ethnobotany
721 -- 733Fuyuki Yoshikane, Yutaka Suzuki, Keita Tsuji. Analysis of the relationship between citation frequency of patents and diversity of their backward citations for Japanese patents
735 -- 746Xiaofeng Cao, Yi Huang, Jie Wang, Shengji Luan. Research status and trends in limnology journals: a bibliometric analysis based on SCI database
747 -- 765Xingjian Liu, F. Benjamin Zhan, Song Hong, Beibei Niu, Yaolin Liu. A bibliometric study of earthquake research: 1900-2010
767 -- 780Per Ahlgren, Cristian Colliander, Olle Persson. Field normalized citation rates, field normalized journal impact and Norwegian weights for allocation of university research funds
781 -- 783Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann. Testing differences statistically with the Leiden ranking
785 -- 793Lav R. Varshney. The Google effect in doctoral theses
795 -- 799Jiang Li, Fred Y. Ye. The phenomenon of all-elements-sleeping-beauties in scientific literature

Volume 92, Issue 2

207 -- 208Tibor Braun. Editorial
209 -- 0. Discussion Paper
211 -- 238Jerome K. Vanclay. Impact factor: outdated artefact or stepping-stone to journal certification?
239 -- 0. Comments on the Discussion Paper
241 -- 247Alexandru T. Balaban. Positive and negative aspects of citation indices and journal impact factors
249 -- 260Judit Bar-Ilan. Journal report card
261 -- 0Judit Bar-Ilan. Erratum to: Journal report card
263 -- 275Stephen J. Bensman. The impact factor: its place in Garfield's thought, in science evaluation, and in library collection management
277 -- 279Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx. The effect of several versions of one and the same manuscript published by a journal on its journal impact factor
281 -- 292Gualberto Buela-Casal, Izabela Zych. What do the scientists think about the impact factor?
293 -- 295Juan Miguel Campanario. Some research ideas on Journal Impact Factors as a crucial topic in science dynamics
297 -- 311Gregorio González-Alcaide, Juan Carlos Valderrama Zurián, Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent. The Impact Factor in non-English-speaking countries
313 -- 317James Hartley. To cite or not to cite: author self-citations and the impact factor
319 -- 324Peter Ingwersen. The pragmatics of a diachronic journal impact factor
325 -- 354Péter Jacsó. Grim tales about the impact factor and the h-index in the Web of Science and the Journal Citation Reports databases: reflections on Vanclay's criticism
355 -- 365Loet Leydesdorff. Alternatives to the journal impact factor: I3 and the top-10% (or top-25%?) of the most-highly cited papers
367 -- 376Henk F. Moed, Lisa Colledge, Jan Reedijk, Félix de Moya Anegón, Vicente P. Guerrero Bote, Andrew M. Plume, Mayur Amin. Citation-based metrics are appropriate tools in journal assessment provided that they are accurate and used in an informed way
377 -- 390Rüdiger Mutz, Hans-Dieter Daniel. The generalized propensity score methodology for estimating unbiased journal impact factors
391 -- 393Francis Narin. Decades of progress, or the progress of decades?
395 -- 401David Pendlebury, Jonathan Adams. Comments on a critique of the Thomson Reuters journal impact factor
403 -- 408Gangan Prathap. Evaluating journal performance metrics
409 -- 412Alexander I. Pudovkin, Eugene Garfield. Rank normalization of impact factors will resolve Vanclay's dilemma with TRIF - Comments on the paper by Jerome Vanclay
413 -- 417Ronald Rousseau. Updating the journal impact factor or total overhaul?
419 -- 427Derek R. Smith. Impact factors, scientometrics and the history of citation-based research
429 -- 441Mike Thelwall. Journal impact evaluation: a webometric perspective
443 -- 455Thed van Leeuwen. Discussing some basic critique on Journal Impact Factors: revision of earlier comments
457 -- 469Anthony F. J. van Raan. Properties of journal impact in relation to bibliometric research group performance indicators
471 -- 483Peter Vinkler. The Garfield impact factor, one of the fundamental indicators in scientometrics
485 -- 503Michel Zitt. The journal impact factor: angel, devil, or scapegoat? A comment on J.K. Vanclay's article 2011

Volume 92, Issue 1

1 -- 5Ming-Yueh Tsay. Preface
7 -- 21Wen-Yau Cathy Lin. Research status and characteristics of library and information science in Taiwan: a bibliometric analysis
23 -- 42Angela Yung-Chi Hou, Martin Ince, Chung-Lin Chiang. A reassessment of Asian pacific excellence programs in higher education: the Taiwan experience
43 -- 62Hao-Ren Ke, Ya-ning Chen. Structure and pattern of social tags for keyword selection behaviors
63 -- 73Wen-Chi Hung. Measuring the use of public research in firm R&D in the Hsinchu Science Park
75 -- 87Chiang Kao, Shiang-Tai Liu, Hwei-Lan Pao. Assessing improvement in management research in Taiwan
89 -- 103Kuang-Hua Chen, Pei-Yu Liao. A comparative study on world university rankings: a bibliometric survey
105 -- 116Tsung Teng Chen. The development and empirical study of a literature review aiding system
117 -- 134Yu-Shan Chen, Chun-Yu Shih, Ching-Hsun Chang. The effects of related and unrelated technological diversification on innovation performance and corporate growth in the Taiwan's semiconductor industry
135 -- 143Ju-O Wang, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Senyeong Kao, Te-Chun Yeh, Li-Fang Chou, Shung-Tai Ho. Scientific publications by anesthesia departments in East Asia
145 -- 155Hsuan-I Liu, Bi-Chun Chang, Kuan-Chia Chen. Collaboration patterns of Taiwanese scientific publications in various research areas
157 -- 179Jennifer H. Chen, Shihmin Lo, Show-Ling Jang, Chi-Cho Huang. Strategic partnership and its effect on external learning of technology descendants
181 -- 195Hsin-Ning Su, Carey Ming-Li Chen, Pei-Chun Lee. Patent litigation precaution method: analyzing characteristics of US litigated and non-litigated patents from 1976 to 2010
197 -- 205Nobuko Miyairi, Han-Wen Chang. Bibliometric characteristics of highly cited papers from Taiwan, 2000-2009