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Bibliometrics

60 methods
45 method families

MOST CONNECTED IN BIBLIOMETRICS

Co-Citation Analysis
9 connections in this field
Science Mapping
9 connections in this field
Scopus Database
9 connections in this field
Web of Science Database
9 connections in this field
Bibliographic Coupling
8 connections in this field
Journal Citation Reports
8 connections in this field
g-Index (Egghe)
7 connections in this field
Keyword Co-Occurrence Analysis
7 connections in this field
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA)
6 connections in this field
Directory of Open Access Journals
6 connections in this field

Showing 60 of 60 methods

h-index variants / author metrics6 methods
Contemporary h-Indexe-Index (Excess Citations)g-Index (Egghe)hg-Index (Composite Hirsch-Egghe)i10-Indexm-Quotient (Hirsch m)
Citation-network / science mapping4 methods
Author Bibliographic Coupling AnalysisAuthor Co-Citation Analysis (ACA)Direct Citation Clustering of ScienceMain Path Analysis
network-citation3 methods
Bibliographic CouplingCo-Citation AnalysisJournal Co-Citation Analysis
Scientometrics / impact dynamics3 methods
Citation Distribution Modeling (Lognormal/Tsallis)Disruption Index (CD-Index)Sleeping Beauties and Delayed Recognition
citation databases2 methods
Scopus DatabaseWeb of Science Database
Information-retrieval evaluation / ranking metrics2 methods
Mean Average Precision (MAP)Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (nDCG)
Normalization indicators / research evaluation2 methods
Crown Indicator (CPP/FCSm)Field-Normalized Citation Impact (MNCS)
Bibliometric laws / journal concentration1 method
Garfield's Law of Concentration
biomedical literature databases1 method
PubMed and MEDLINE
Citation integrity and self-referencing indicators1 method
Journal Self-Citation Analysis
Citation-network / emergence detection1 method
Structural Variation Analysis (Chen)
Co-word analysis / conceptual structure mapping1 method
Author-Keyword Co-Occurrence Mapping
Field-normalized bibliometric indicators1 method
Percentile-Based Citation Impact (PPtop10%)
Information-retrieval evaluation / ranking functions1 method
BM25 Probabilistic Ranking (Okapi)
journal citation indexes1 method
Emerging Sources Citation Index
journal directory and verification tools1 method
Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory
journal performance analytics platforms1 method
Journal Citation Reports
journal quality metrics1 method
Journal Impact Factor
Journal-level temporal citation indicators1 method
Immediacy Index
Literature aging and research-front indicators1 method
Price Index (Citation Recency)
Literature obsolescence indicators1 method
Citation Half-Life and Literature Obsolescence
literature-review1 method
Systematic Mapping Review
network-collaboration1 method
Co-Authorship Network Analysis
Network-weighted citation indicators1 method
Eigenfactor and Article Influence Score
open access journal directories1 method
Directory of Open Access Journals
prestige-weighted journal metrics1 method
SCImago Journal Rank
quantitative-laws1 method
Bibliometric Laws: Lotka, Bradford, Zipf
researcher impact metrics1 method
H-Index
Scientometric indicators / national and institutional profiling1 method
Relative Specialization / Activity Index
Scientometric indicators / research collaboration1 method
Scientific Collaboration Index (Co-Authorship Intensity)
Scientometric network analysis / collaboration structure1 method
Collaboration Distance and Erdős Number Analysis
Scientometric text mining / citation analysis1 method
Citation Context and Sentiment Analysis
Scientometrics / altmetrics1 method
Mendeley Readership Analysis
Scientometrics / science-policy indicators1 method
Triple Helix Indicators (Mutual Information)
Scientometrics / science-technology linkage1 method
Patent–Paper Citation Linkage (NPL)
Scientometrics / technology forecasting1 method
Technology Life Cycle Bibliometrics
Scientometrics / usage analytics1 method
Usage Bibliometrics (Downloads and COUNTER)
semantic-network1 method
Keyword Co-Occurrence Analysis
software-tools1 method
VOSviewer and CiteSpace Tools
Source-side field-normalized indicators1 method
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
Temporal bibliometrics / cited-reference analysis1 method
Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS)
Temporal bibliometrics / emergence detection1 method
Burst Detection (Kleinberg) for Emerging Topics
Temporal citation-profile indicators1 method
Citing vs Cited Half-Life Asymmetry
trend-detection1 method
Research Front Identification
visualization1 method
Science Mapping

FIELD AT A GLANCE

Methods60
Method families45
Connected methods10+

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