Macro-indicators of citation impacts of six prolific countries: InCites data and the statistical significance of trends.
Using the InCites tool of Thomson Reuters, this study compares normalized citation impact values calculated for China, Japan, France, Germany, United States, and the UK throughout the time period from 1981 to 2010. InCites offers a unique opportunity to study the normalized citation impacts of count...
Main Authors: | Lutz Bornmann, Loet Leydesdorff |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-01-01
|
Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3572076?pdf=render |
Similar Items
-
Citations: Indicators of Quality? The Impact Fallacy
by: Loet Leydesdorff, et al.
Published: (2016-08-01) -
Networks of reader and country status: an analysis of Mendeley reader statistics
by: Robin Haunschild, et al.
Published: (2015-11-01) -
The Power-weakness Ratios (PWR) as a Journal Indicator: Testing the “Tournaments” Metaphor in Citation Impact Studies
by: Loet Leydesdorff, et al.
Published: (2016-09-01) -
Indicators of Structural Change in the Dynamics of Science:
Entropy Statistics of the SCI Journal Citation Reports
by: Leydesdorff, Loet
Published: (2002) -
Mapping Interdisciplinarity at the Interfaces between the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index
by: Leydesdorff, Loet
Published: (2006)