Citation Count – The Global Chiropractic Research Enterprise

Beam plots: a better tool for evaluating research output

Scientometrics / September 28, 2021

The metrification of the research enterprise is inescapable but, used properly, brings a measure of fairness to the evaluation of researchers and research producing organizations. However, a drawback that we have discussed previously is that individual metrics provide only a pinhole view of the researcher or organization. We therefore need to appreciate the limitations of […]

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The H-Index: an author level metric

Bibliometrics, Scientometrics / September 14, 2021

Previously, we have talked about a journal level metric, the journal impact factor (JIF), and an article level metric, the citation count. We have seen how both of these metrics might be related to, but are not direct measures of some quality of the author or authors – perhaps productivity. In this blog entry, we

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Citation Counts

Bibliometrics / September 8, 2021

Citation counts are a great article-level bibliometric. They don’t lie – they tell us how often a particular paper has been cited by other papers. However, and perhaps because this is such a convenient metric to generate, we may be tempted to extrapolate beyond the data and give false meanings to citation counts. Let’s think

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