In the field of scientometrics, one of the most well-known (and oft discussed and criticized) metric for scientific output and productivity is the h-index. The h-index for a scientist is simply the ...

Which young South African researcher has had the largest impact in world science? Which university department collaborates most with African research partners? These questions can be answered by ...

Responsible research assessment and open science are topics that concern all higher education institutions. In his lecture, Professor Ludo Waltman, Scientific Director at the Centre for Science and ...

The Maturing Of Scientometrics And Informetrics Author: Eugene Garfield In the early 1900s, scientists and librarians were already conscious of the exponential growth of the research literature. Small ...

THE National Commission on Science and Technology (NCST) is encouraging the public to participate in its upcoming Scientometrics of Jamaica webinar, scheduled for today at 10:00 am. Interested persons ...

The Dr S R Lasker Library of East West University (EWU) has hosted the three-day long 17th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics, and Scientometrics (WIS). The event started at East ...

“He was an amazing character whose influence on information science, writ large, can’t be underestimated,” H. Carton Rogers III, vice provost and director of libraries at the University of ...