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60 methods.

H-index variants / author metrics 6

Contemporary h-Indexe-Index (Excess Citations)g-Index (Egghe)hg-Index (Composite Hirsch-Egghe)i10-Indexm-Quotient (Hirsch m)

Citation-network / science mapping 4

Author Bibliographic Coupling AnalysisAuthor Co-Citation Analysis (ACA)Direct Citation Clustering of ScienceMain Path Analysis

Network-citation 3

Bibliographic CouplingCo-Citation AnalysisJournal Co-Citation Analysis

Scientometrics / impact dynamics 3

Citation Distribution Modeling (Lognormal/Tsallis)Disruption Index (CD-Index)Sleeping Beauties and Delayed Recognition

Normalization indicators / research evaluation 2

Crown Indicator (CPP/FCSm)Field-Normalized Citation Impact (MNCS)

Information-retrieval evaluation / ranking metrics 2

Mean Average Precision (MAP)Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (nDCG)

Citation databases 2

Scopus DatabaseWeb of Science Database

Co-word analysis / conceptual structure mapping 1

Author-Keyword Co-Occurrence Mapping

Information-retrieval evaluation / ranking functions 1

BM25 Probabilistic Ranking (Okapi)

Temporal bibliometrics / emergence detection 1

Burst Detection (Kleinberg) for Emerging Topics

Scientometric text mining / citation analysis 1

Citation Context and Sentiment Analysis

Literature obsolescence indicators 1

Citation Half-Life and Literature Obsolescence

Temporal citation-profile indicators 1

Citing vs Cited Half-Life Asymmetry

Network-collaboration 1

Co-Authorship Network Analysis

Scientometric network analysis / collaboration structure 1

Collaboration Distance and Erdős Number Analysis

Open access journal directories 1

Directory of Open Access Journals

Network-weighted citation indicators 1

Eigenfactor and Article Influence Score

Journal citation indexes 1

Emerging Sources Citation Index

Bibliometric laws / journal concentration 1

Garfield's Law of Concentration

Researcher impact metrics 1

H-Index

Journal-level temporal citation indicators 1

Immediacy Index

Journal quality metrics 1

Journal Impact Factor

Journal performance analytics platforms 1

Journal Citation Reports

Citation integrity and self-referencing indicators 1

Journal Self-Citation Analysis

Semantic-network 1

Keyword Co-Occurrence Analysis

Quantitative-laws 1

Bibliometric Laws: Lotka, Bradford, Zipf

Scientometrics / altmetrics 1

Mendeley Readership Analysis

Scientometrics / science-technology linkage 1

Patent–Paper Citation Linkage (NPL)

Field-normalized bibliometric indicators 1

Percentile-Based Citation Impact (PPtop10%)

Literature aging and research-front indicators 1

Price Index (Citation Recency)

Biomedical literature databases 1

PubMed and MEDLINE

Temporal bibliometrics / cited-reference analysis 1

Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS)

Scientometric indicators / national and institutional profiling 1

Relative Specialization / Activity Index

Trend-detection 1

Research Front Identification

Visualization 1

Science Mapping

Scientometric indicators / research collaboration 1

Scientific Collaboration Index (Co-Authorship Intensity)

Prestige-weighted journal metrics 1

SCImago Journal Rank

Source-side field-normalized indicators 1

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

Citation-network / emergence detection 1

Structural Variation Analysis (Chen)

Literature-review 1

Systematic Mapping Review

Scientometrics / technology forecasting 1

Technology Life Cycle Bibliometrics

Scientometrics / science-policy indicators 1

Triple Helix Indicators (Mutual Information)

Journal directory and verification tools 1

Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory

Scientometrics / usage analytics 1

Usage Bibliometrics (Downloads and COUNTER)

Software-tools 1

VOSviewer and CiteSpace Tools
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