Applied Evaluative Informetrics (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Preface.- Structure of the book.- Acknowledgements.- Executive Summary.- PART 1: General Introduction and Synopsis.- 1. General introduction.- 2. Base notions and general conclusions.- 3. Synopsis (incl. summary tables).- PART 2. Historical overview lectures.- 4. De Solla Price's Networks of Scientific Papers.- 5. The Citation Cycle and the structure of science.- 6. Science maps and mapping softwares.- 7. Eugene Garfield's Science Citation Index.- 8. Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar.- 9. Informetrics as a big data science.- 10. Science-Technology linkages: Francis Narin'a patent citation analysis.- 11. Models of the relationship between science and technology.- 12. Position of firms in bibliometric rankings.- 13. Journal impact factor and SNIP.- 14. Eigenfactor and SJR.- 15. Full text downloads.-16. Relative citation rates.- 17. H-index.- 18. Altmetrics (including downloads).- PART 3. Studies on hot topics.- 19. World university rankings.- 20. The effects of Open Access publishing.- 21. Models of scientific development.- 22. Google Scholar.- PART 4. Perspective articles.- 23. The potential of altmetrics.- 24. The need to study the quality of the manuscript peer review process.- 25. The need to develop author self evaluation tools.- 26. On the measurement of societal impact.- 27. Informetric applications in other disciplines: sport science and musicology.- References.