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Professional and citizen bibliometrics: complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators-a state-of-the-art report.

Loet Leydesdorff, Paul Wouters, Lutz Bornmann

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Article in Scientometrics. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  6. Four challenges when conducting bibliometric reviews and how to deal with them.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Loet LeydesdorffAmsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 15793, 1001 NG Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-7835-3098
Paul WoutersCentre for Science and Technology Studies CWTS, Leiden University, P.O. Box 905, 2300 AX Leiden, The Netherlands.
Lutz BornmannDivision for Science and Innovation Studies, Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Hofgartenstr. 8, 80539 Munich, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bibliometric indicators such as journal impact factors,

Indexed as

Boundary objectEvaluative bibliometricsScientometric indicatorsValidity

Identifiers

PMID27942086
PMCPMC5124044

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.