Library:Citation Analysis & Impact Factors/Readings

Readings

Fang, F. C., & Casadevall, A. (2011). Retracted science and the retraction index. Infection and Immunity, 79(10), 3855-3859. doi: 10.1128/IAI.05661-11

García-Pérez, M. A. (2010), Accuracy and completeness of publication and citation records in the Web of Science, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar: A case study for the computation of h indices in Psychology. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61: 2070–2085. doi: 10.1002/asi.21372

Kousha, K., Thelwall, M., & Rezaie, S. (2011). Assessing the citation impact of books: The role of Google Books, Google Scholar, and Scopus. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(11), 2147-2164. doi:10.1002/asi.21608

McDonald, John (2003). The Book is Dead: Citation Rates in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In Strauch, Katina (ed.) Charleston Conference Proceedings (21st, Charleston, South Carolina, November 1-3, 2001) 143-152. [Google Books Link, not all pages viewable]

Moed, Henk F. (2005). Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation. Information Science and Knowledge Management 9. doi:10.1007/1-4020-3714-7