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Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics (FRMA) is an open-access journal that was launched in 2016. Its mission is to provide a platform for scholars to learn, evaluate, and improve research and scholarship in various disciplines. The journal aims to advance meta-knowledge of research and innovation and promote new ways of conducting high-quality research. FRMA consists of six sections that cover topics such as assessment, evaluation, scholarly communication, and strategic management of research and innovation. The journal has published 369 articles so far and has been cited by other journals in related fields. The article provides an overview of the intellectual neighborhood of FRMA and highlights exemplary works published in the journal. [Extracted from the article]

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• We analyze the prevalence of research software citation in Clarivate Analytics' Data Citation Index (DCI). • To date, most software citations have been limited to research software hosted by a small number of repositories. • Research software remains highly uncited in the DCI, or the reuse of research software is not well reflected in the DCI. • The use of persistent identifiers, which can help to identify research software did not necessarily result in higher citation rates. The aim of this study is to explore the phenomenon of research software citation and, in particular, to draw attention to the increasing importance of this form of citation in scholarly communication. This research sheds light on the current status of formal software citation that is captured by citation databases. Data for the study were gathered from more than 67,000 research software records available in public repositories indexed by Clarivate Analytics' Data Citation Index (DCI). The metadata characteristics of the indexed records and citation data were then analyzed. Research software was rarely cited in the DCI, suggesting that the documented reuse of research software rarely occurs or is not well documented. Institutional repositories attracted few citations and had low rate of citation. It proved impossible, however, using the available data to isolate specific identifiers that can promote formal software citation. The findings presented here offer insights into research software citation that will be of interest to funding agencies, publishers, researchers, and research organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The domain of knowledge organization (KO) represents a foundational area of information science. One way to better understand the intellectual structure of the KO domain is to apply bibliometric methods to key contributors to the literature. This study analyzes the most prolific contributing authors to the journal Knowledge Organization, the sources they cite and the citations they receive for the period 1993 to 2016. The analyses were conducted using visualization outcomes of citation, co-citation and author bibliographic coupling analysis to reveal theoretical points of reference among authors and the most prominent research themes that constitute this scientific community. Birger Hjørland was the most cited author, and was situated at or near the middle of each of the maps based on different citation relationships. The proximities between authors resulting from the different citation relationships demonstrate ho w authors situate themselves intellectually through the citations they give and how other authors situate them through the citations received. There is a consistent core of theoretical references as well among the most productive authors. We observed a close network of scholarly communication between the authors cited in this core, which indicates the actual role of the journal Knowledge Organization as a space for knowledge construction in the area of knowledge organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A quantitative investigation of information science publications indexed in Web of Science by scholars affiliated with Canadian institutions was conducted for the period 1989 to 2008 as a follow-up to a 1991 study conducted by Chu and Wolfram. The findings reveal essentially linear growth in the number of contributions, as institutions housing library and information science programs contribute the most publications. The largest growth was observed in the area of information behaviour, where greater levels of author and inter-institutional co-authorship have been observed in recent years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Recitation patterns for individual publications are examined and mathematically modeled by focusing on the origin of citations (citers) using data from Thomson Reuters Web of Science. The authors outline oeuvre citation exhaustivity, or the practice of citing across the body of work of an author, and model the resulting frequency distributions to identify research disciples and admirers. A Geeta distribution provided the best fits for both recitation frequency and oeuvre citation exhaustivity distributions. The findings provide a novel way to identify the influence of an author based on citer analysis. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]