Scaling rules in the science system: Influence of field-specific citation characteristics on the impact of research groups

@article{citeulike:2997942, abstract = {A representation of science as a citation density landscape is proposed and scaling rules with the field-specific citation density as a main topological property are investigated. The focus is on the size-dependence of several main bibliometric indicators for a large set of research groups while distinguishing between top-performance and lower-performance groups. It is demonstrated that this representation of the science system is particularly effective to understand the role and the interdependencies of the different bibliometric indicators and related topological properties of the landscape.}, address = {Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands}, author = {van Raan, Anthony F. J. }, citeulike-article-id = {2997942}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20765}, journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology}, number = {4}, pages = {565--576}, posted-at = {2008-07-14 05:26:04}, priority = {2}, title = {Scaling rules in the science system: Influence of field-specific citation characteristics on the impact of research groups}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20765}, volume = {59}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2997942 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2997942 N2 - A representation of science as a citation density landscape is proposed and scaling rules with the field-specific citation density as a main topological property are investigated. The focus is on the size-dependence of several main bibliometric indicators for a large set of research groups while distinguishing between top-performance and lower-performance groups. It is demonstrated that this representation of the science system is particularly effective to understand the role and the interdependencies of the different bibliometric indicators and related topological properties of the landscape. IS - 4 JF - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology AD - Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands EP - 576 TI - Scaling rules in the science system: Influence of field-specific citation characteristics on the impact of research groups VL - 59 SP - 565 AU - van Raan, Anthony PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20765 ER -