Opinion paper: thoughts and facts on bibliometric indicators

Authors:
Wolfgang Glänzel;Henk F. Moed
Affiliations:
Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM) and Department of MSI, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Department Science Policy and Scientometrics, LHAS, Budapest, Hungary;SciVal Dept., Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Venue:
Scientometrics
Year:
2013

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Abstract

This paper aims at contributing to the on-going discussion about building and applying bibliometric indicators. It sheds light on their properties and requirements concerning six different aspects: deterministic versus probabilistic approach, application-related properties, the time dependence, normalization issues, size dependence and network indicators.