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title: The Rise and Rise of Citation Analysis
url: https://www.emergentmind.com/papers/0701012
type: paper
arxiv_id: '0701012'
arxiv_url: https://arxiv.org/abs/0701012
published: '2006-12-30'
categories:
- physics.soc-ph
- cs.DL
---

# The Rise and Rise of Citation Analysis

## Abstract

With the vast majority of scientific papers now available online, this paper describes how the Web is allowing physicists and information providers to measure more accurately the impact of these papers and their authors. Provides a historical background of citation analysis, impact factor, new citation data sources (e.g., Google Scholar, Scopus, NASA's Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, MathSciNet, ScienceDirect, SciFinder Scholar, Scitation/SPIN, and SPIRES-HEP), as well as h-index, g-index, and a-index.