Modern scientometrics is mostly based on the work of Derek J. de Solla Price and Eugene Garfield. The latter created the Science Citation Index and founded the Institute for Scientific … See more

In scholarly and scientific publishing, altmetrics are nontraditional bibliometrics proposed as an alternative or complement to more traditional See more

The main character in Michael Frayn’s novel Skios is a Professor of Scientometrics. See more

• Academic careerism
• Author-level metrics
• Citation analysis
• College and university rankings
• Erdős number See more

Methods of research include qualitative, quantitative and computational approaches. The main focus of studies have been on … See more

Indexes may be classified as article-level metrics, author-level metrics, and journal-level metrics depending on which feature they evaluate. See more

Critics have argued that overreliance on scientometrics has created a publish or perish environment with perverse incentives that lead to low-quality research. See more