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Scientometrics in a changing research landscape
Author(s) -
Bornmann Lutz,
Leydesdorff Loet
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.15252/embr.201439608
Subject(s) - scientometrics , library science , quality (philosophy) , work (physics) , bibliometrics , science park , sociology , political science , social science , computer science , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology
Bibliometrics has become an integral component of quality assessment for science and funding decisions. The next challenge for scientometrics is to develop similarly reliable indicators for the social impact of research.