►You need to assume that each database contains only a portion of the complete citation record for article and authors
►It is often difficult to separate individual authors with common last names
►The arts and humanities are not represented as well as the sciences and social sciences
►It is difficult to compare analysis results across different fields
Citation analysis is looking at which authors use which articles as references in their own publications. It uses citation data to see the impact or assumed quality of an author, article, or journal. There are several different types of citation reports you can generate. You can see:
Citation map from eigenFACTOR.org
There are several websites that visually map citation information including VOSviewer.com, Well-Formed, and Web of Science has a "View Citation Map" feature.
Scholarly impact can refer to several aspects of scholarly communication. Most commonly:
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