Metrics are often said to suit science subjects better than others, but even scientists have voiced concerns about the reliability of bibliometrics.
We also need to be smart as the importance of bibliometrics is increasing and part of the key to high impact is choosing the right venue for publication.
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.
Impact factors, in turn, provide a pecking order for researchers: although the UK Research Excellence Framework is circumspect about the value of "bibliometrics", it is inconceivable that journal status has no influence on ratings.
The report assesses the use of bibliometrics in science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects (STEM), as well as non-STEM subjects, and the differences in citation behaviour among subject disciplines.
The use of bibliometrics is gradually extending to all disciplines.
The study also analyzed the applicability of bibliometrics laws in SBSE.
In conclusion, practitioners of chemical research should not refrain from mastering the use of bibliometrics indicators.
The new study makes use of bibliometrics, or the statistical analysis of publication patterns in data culled from vast numbers of scientific articles, authors, and citations.
The use of bibliometrics relies on the very structured nature and expectations of the refereed scientific literature.
