Citation Counting and Impact Factors - Further Reading
- Adams, David. Citation analysis: the counting house. Nature 415, Feb. 14 2002, 726-32.
- Altbach, Philip G. The Tyranny of Citations. Inside Higher Ed May 8, 2006.
- Bauer, Kathleen; Bakkalbasi, Nisa. An examination of citation counts in a new scholarly communication environment. D-Lib Magazine 11(9) Sept. 2005.
(A case study comparing citation counts in Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Elsevier's Scopus products.)
- Garfield, Eugene. "Dispelling a few common myths about journal citation impacts." The Scientist 11(3) 1997.
- Harzing, A. Reflections on the h-index.
- Hirsch J.E. An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(46) 2006, 16569-16572.
- The Impact Factor Game. PLoS Medicine 3(6) 2006, e291.
- International Mathematical Union. Joint Committee on Quantitative Assessment of Research. Citation Statistics. Report, June 11, 2008.
- Jasco, Peter. Google Scholar's ghost authors. Library Journal, Nov. 1, 2009.
- Kaiser, J. In 'insurrection', scientists, editors call for abandoning journal impact factors. Science Insider, May 16, 2013.
- Meyer, V. The h-index: help or hype? Chimia 63(1-2) 2009, 66-68.
- Molinié, A.; Bodenhausen, G. Bibliometrics as weapons of mass citation. Chimia, 64(1-2) 2010, 78-89.
- Monastersky, Richard. The number that's devouring science. Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 14, 2005.
- Nature Special Issue: Science Metrics. June 16, 2010.
- Not-so-deep impact: research assessment rests too heavily on the inflated status of the impact factor. Nature 435, 2005, 1003-4.
- Neff, Bryan D.; Olden, Julian D. (2010). "Not So Fast: Inflation in Impact Factors Contributes to Apparent Improvements in Journal Quality." BioScience 60(6):455-459.
- Reedijk, Jan. Sense and nonsense of science citation analyses. New Journal of Chemistry 1998, 767-70.
- Rossner, Mike; Van Epps, Heather; Hill, Emma. Show me the data. Journal of Cell Biology 179 (6) 2007, 1091-1092.
- Rovner, Sophie L. The Import of impact. Chemical & Engineering News 86(21), May 26, 2008, 39-42.
- San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
- Seglen, Per O. Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research. BMJ 314 (7079) 1997, 498-502.
- Stringer MJ, Sales-Pardo M, Nunes Amaral LA (2008) Effectiveness of Journal Ranking Schemes as a Tool for Locating Information. PLoS ONE 3(2): e1683.
- The use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance ESEP, Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 8(1) 2008.
- Walter, G. et al. "Counting on citations: a flawed way to measure quality." Medical Journal of Australia 178(6) 2003, 280-81.
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