Citation is the process of acknowledging or citing the author, year, title, and locus of publication (journal, book, or other) of a source used in a published work. Such citations can be counted as measures of the usage and impact of the cited work. This is called citation analysis or bibliometrics. Among the measures that have emerged from citation analysis are the citation count for
- an individual article (how often it was cited);
- an author (total citations, or average citation count per article);
- for a journal (journal impact factor, or the average citation count for the articles in the journal).
Citation counts are correlated with other measures of scholarly/scientific performance and impact and can in some cases be enhanced by making a work open access by self-archiving the complete article on the web, publishing it in an open access journal, or publishing it as an Open access article in one of the Hybrid open access journals. There also exists an H-index measure of an individual scientist's impact and citation record.
See also
- Journal Impact Factor, the average citation count for a journal
- H-index value calculator
References
- (See also the Bibliography of Findings on the Open Access Impact Advantage)
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