Bibliometric Indicators for Evaluating the Quality of Scientific Publications

Abstract

Evaluation of quality and quantity of publications can be done using a set of statistical and mathematical indices called bibliometric indicators. Two major categories of indicators are (1) quantitative indicators that measure the research productivity of a researcher and (2) performance indicators that evaluate the quality of publications. Bibliometric indicators are important for both the individual researcher and organizations. They are widely used to compare the performance of the individual researchers, journals and universities. Many of the appointments, promotions and allocation of research funds are based on these indicators. This review article describes some of the currently used bibliometric indicators such as journal impact factor, crown indicator, h-index and it's variants. It is suggested that for comparison of scientific impact and scientific output of researchers due consideration should be given to various factors affecting theses indicators.

Publication Productivity Pattern of Malaysian Researchers in Scopus from 1995 to 2015

“…[40] From the published articles and papers, bibliometric analysis used as a medium to assess the progress of the scientist or researcher. [41] There are two aspect to assess the progress of bibliometric analysis which is through the pure bibliographical and another other one is by citation impact. [42] Pure bibliographical is an analysis of compilation of any type of content based on its creators, editors and time of production or distribution.…”

“…[42] These two aspect are certainly important to be determine in order to know the development of research. From the bibliometric analysis, there are two main utilization can be assessed through the analysis which is from the individual aspect [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44] and institution aspect. [45,46] From the individual aspect, researchers can identify how their research can gives some value information to others.…”

Citation Analysis for Biomedical and Health Sciences Journals Published in Korea

“…Over the past few decades, many bibliometric measures that reflect academic journals' scientific quality and influence were developed [ 9 ]. Traditionally, the major source of citation data has been the Web of Science (WoS), which reports impact factors (IFs) Eigenfactor scores, and article influence scores (AISs) for the world's leading journals enlisted in databases such as the Science Citation Index (SCI) [ 10 ].…”

A Python based Regression Approach on Reliable Journal Parameters to Assess Few Scientific Impact Measures

“…The increasing importance of the scientific impact of journals as independent measures of quality or impact of any scientific publication has triggered the evolution of many bibliometric indices [2] [3]. The impact of a scientific publication is measured by the number of times the article gets cited in other journals [4]. Bibliometric indicators quantify the pertinent citation and use of bibliographic information and are being used extensively in the assessment of research performance.…”

“…The impact of this new knowledge can be measured by the number of times publications have been cited by other scientists in subsequent work. Evaluation of quality and quantity of publications can be done using a set of statistical and mathematical indices called bibliometric indicators [4]. Indicators such as Quantitative indicators measure the productivity of the researcher and performance indicators measure the quality of the journal or researcher.…”