Citation Analysis: Recommended Reading

Caveats and Cautions

• Abbott, A., et al. (2010).  Do metrics matter? Nature, 465(7300), 860-862. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100616/full/465860a.html
  
  
• Arnold, D.N. (2008). Integrity under attack: the state of scholarly publishing.  [Talk of the Society editorial] SIAM News 42(10). http://umn.edu/~arnold/siam-columns/integrity-under-attack.pdf
  
  
• Ball, P. (2008). A longer paper gathers more citations. Nature, 455(7211), 274-275. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080917/full/455274a.html
  

• Browman, H.I., & Stergiou, K.I. (Eds.) (2008).  Use and misuse of bibliometrics indices in evaluating scholarly performance [Special Issue]. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8(1).  http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esep/v8/n1/ 
  
  
• Laloe, F., & Mosseri, R. (2009).  Bibliometric evaluation of individual researchers: Not even right ... not even wrong.  Europhysics News, 40(5), 26-29.  http://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/2009/05/epn20095p26.pdf 
  
  
• Nightingale, J. M., & Marshall, G. (2013). Reprint of "Citation analysis as a measure of article quality, journal influence and individual researcher performance." Nurse Education in Practice, 13(5), 429-36. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23566748
  

• Opatrny, T. (2008).  Playing the system to give low impact journal more clout.  Nature, 455(7210), 167.  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7210/full/455167b.html

• Pitney, W. A., & Gilson, T. A. (2012). Using Google Scholar citations to support the impact of scholarly work. Athletic Training Education Journal, 7(1), 38-39. http://www.nataej.org/7.1/0701-3839.pdf
  

Comparisons

• Aghaei Chadegani, A., Salehi, H., Md Yunus, M., Farhadi, H., Fooladi, M., Farhadi, M., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2013). A comparison between two main academic literature collections: Web of Science and Scopus databases. Asian Social Science, 9(5), 18-26. http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/26960
  

• Cusker, J. (2012). Using ISI Web of Science to compare top-ranked journals to the citation habits of a "real world" academic department. Issues In Science And Technology Librarianship, 70. http://www.istl.org/previous.html
  

• Gray, E., & Hodkinson, S.Z. (2008, Summer).  Comparison of Journal Citation Reports and Scopus impact factors and environmental sciences journals.  Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, Issue 54, Article 1.   http://www.istl.org/08-summer/article1.html 
  
  
• Kulkami, A.V., et al. (2009).  Comparison of citation in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar for articles published in general medical journals. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 302(10), 1092. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19738094
  
  
• Meho, L.I., & Yang, K. (2007).  Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS facutly: Web of Science versus Scopus and Google Scholar.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(13), 2105-2125.  http://sci2s.ugr.es/hindex/pdf/MehoYang2007.pdf
  
  
• Podlubny, I., & Kassayova, I. (2006).  Towards a better list of citation superstars: compiling a multidisciplinary list of highly cited researchers.  Research Evaluation, 15(3), 154-169. http://rev.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/3/154.abstract 
  
  
• Ruscio, J., Seaman, F., D'Oriano, C., Stremlo, E., & Mahalchik, K. (2012). Measuring scholarly impact using modern citation-based indices. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research And Perspectives, 10(3), 123-146. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15366367.2012.711147#.Uh9NR3_8Kvg

• Van Noorden, R. (2010).  Metrics: A profusion of measures.  Nature, 465(7300), 864-866. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100616/full/465864a.html 
  
• Van Aalst, J. (2010).  Using Google Scholar to estimate the impact of journal articles in education.  Educational Researcher, 39(5), 387-400. https://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Publications/Journals/Educational_Researcher/3905/387-400_07EDR10.pdf 

History and Background

• Ardanuy, J. (2013). Sixty years of citation analysis studies in the humanities (1951-2010). Journal Of The American Society For Information Science & Technology, 64(8), 1751-1755. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22835/abstract
  

• Garfield, E. (1997).  Concept of citation indexing: a unique and innovative tool for navigating the research literature.  Retrieved July 22, 2008, from http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/vladivostok.html. 
  
  
• Garfield, E. (2006).  The history and meaning of the journal impact factor.  JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 295(1), 90-93. 

• Garfield, E. (2007).  The evolution of the Science Citation Index.  International Microbiology, 10(1), 65-69.  http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/barcelona2007.pdf
  
  
• Moed, J.F. (2005).  Citation analysis in research evaluation. Dordrecht: Springer. 

Open Access Journals

• Grozanick, S. E. (2010). The impact factor: Implications of open access on quality. Public Services Quarterly, 6(4), 389-399.
  

• Laakso, M., & Björk, B. (2013). Delayed open access: An overlooked high-impact category of openly available scientific literature. Journal Of The American Society For Information Science & Technology, 64(7), 1323-1329. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22856/abstract

• Xia, J., & Nakanishi, K. (2012). Self-selection and the citation advantage of open access articles. Online Information Review, 36(1), 40-51. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14684521211206962

• Xia, J., Myers, R. L., & Wilhoite, S. K. (2011). Multiple open access availability and citation impact. Journal of Information Science, 37(1), 19.
  

Other Indices and Methodologies

• Crespo, J. A., Ortuño-Ortín, I., & Ruiz-Castillo, J. (2012). The citation merit of scientific publications. PLoS One, 7(11). http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0049156
  

• Gonzalez-Pereira, B., Guerrero-Bote, V.P., Moya-Anegon, F. (2009).  The SJR indictor: a new indicator of journals' scientific prestige.  Tech. Rep. arxiv:abs/0912.4141, retrieved June 11, 2010 from http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0912/0912.4141.pdf
  
  
• Liu, X., Zhang, J., & Guo, C. (2013). Full-text citation analysis: A new method to enhance scholarly networks. Journal Of The American Society For Information Science & Technology, 64(9), 1852-1863. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22883/abstract

• Priem, J., & Hemminger B.M. (2010).  Scientometrics 2.0: Toward new metrics of scholarly impact on the social web. First Monday, 15(7), article 2.  http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2874/2570
  
  
• Rovner, S.L. (2008).  The import of impact: New types of journal metrics grow more influential in the scientific community.  Chemcial and Engineering News, 86(20), 39-42.  http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/86/8621sci1.html
  
  
• Schreiber, M. (2008a).  An empirical investigation of the g-index for 26 physicists in comparison with the h-index, the a-index, and the r-index. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(9), 1513-1522. 
  
• Schreiber, M. (2008b).  The influence of self-citation corrections on Egghe's g index.  Scientometrics, 76(1), 187-200.  http://arxiv.org/pdf/0707.4577.
  
  
• Torres, D., Cabezas, Á., & Jiménez, E. (2013). Altmetrics: New indicators for scientific communication in Web 2.0. Comunicar, 21(41), 53-60. http://www.revistacomunicar.com/index.php?contenido=detalles&numero=41&articulo=41-2013-05

• Van Leeuwen, T. (2008).  Testing the validity of the Hirsch-index for research assessment purposes.  Research Evaluation, 17(2), 157-160. http://rev.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/2/157.abstract