Researchers propose a new citation index that balances productivity and impact in academic publishing. The h-index of citations was introduced in 2005 by physicist Jorge E. Hirsch. This index is ...

Recently I received an e-mail that prompted me to think once again about commensuration -- the social process of providing meaning to measurement. The study of commensuration involves analyzing the ...

Reports reveal insights into the world's leading journals - more than 9,000 quality journals from more than 3,000 publishers receive a Journal Impact Factor for the first time For nearly half a ...

With the vast majority of scientific papers now available online, Lokman I Meho describes how the Web is allowing physicists and information providers to measure more accurately the impact of these ...