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In September 2010, Jason Priem, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, was interested in promoting the value of a set of ...

Do you feel a bit late out of the gate when it comes to bibliometrics? You’re probably not alone. Bibliometrics are the quantitative ways that scholarly books, journals, and other publications can be ...

The use of bibliometrics - the number of research papers published and how often they are cited - could end up skewing the data used to judge research quality, an influential report warned today. The ...

Responsible use of publication metrics to support knowledge management in universities. Bibliometrics, or publication metrics, is a field that studies research and science using scholarly publications ...

In today's world, researchers are requested not only to publish high quality research findings but enhance their access and discoverability. This page will provide you with various techniques and ...

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