The Rise and Rise of Citation Analysis
Physics and Society
2007-05-23 v1 Digital Libraries
Abstract
With the vast majority of scientific papers now available online, this paper describes how the Web is allowing physicists and information providers to measure more accurately the impact of these papers and their authors. Provides a historical background of citation analysis, impact factor, new citation data sources (e.g., Google Scholar, Scopus, NASA's Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, MathSciNet, ScienceDirect, SciFinder Scholar, Scitation/SPIN, and SPIRES-HEP), as well as h-index, g-index, and a-index.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0701012,
title = {The Rise and Rise of Citation Analysis},
author = {L. I. Meho},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0701012},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
15 pages, accepted for publication in Physics World (Janury 2007)