"Bibliometrics and altmetrics are increasingly becoming the focus of interest in the context of research evaluation. The Handbook Bibliometrics provides a comprehensive introduction to quantifying scientific output in addition to a historical derivation, individual indicators, institutions, application perspectives and data bases. Furthermore, application scenarios, training and qualification on bibliometrics and their implications are considered"--Publisher's website.

• Preface
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 History and Institutionalization of Bibliometrics
• 1.1 A Historical Overview of Bibliometrics
• 1.2 Institutionalization and Professionalization of Bibliometrics
• 1.3 Eugene Garfield and the Institute for Scientific Information
• 1.4 Derek De Solla Price: The Father of Scientometrics
• 1.5 Coevolution of Field and Institute: The Institutionalization of Bibliometric Research Illustrated by the Emergence and Flourishing of the CWTS
• 1.6 International Conferences of Bibliometrics
• 2 Theory, Principles and Methods of Bibliometrics
• 2.1 Peer Review and Bibliometrics
• 2.2 Jurisdiction of Bibliometrics
• 2.3 National Research Evaluation Systems
• 2.4 The Mathematical Embedding of Bibliometrics
• 2.5 Bibliometrics in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
• 2.6 Relationship between Peer Review and Bibliometrics
• 3 (Classical) Indicators
• 3.1 Measuring the Impact of Research – from Scholarly Communication to Broader Impact
• 3.2 From Simple Publication Figures to Complex Indicators: Bibliometrics and the Dilemma of Methodological Correctness, Significance, and Economic Necessity
• 3.3 The Journal Impact Factor: A Bibliometric Indicator with a Long Past
• 3.4 The h-index
• 4 Alternative Metrics (Altmetrics)
• 4.1 The Future Has Already Begun: Origin, Classification, and Applications of Altmetrics in Scholarly Communication
• 4.2 History, Development and Conceptual Predecessors of Altmetrics
• 4.3 Social Media and Altmetrics
• 4.4 Altmetric.com: A Brief History
• 4.5 PlumX Metrics (Plum Analytics) in Practice
• 4.6 PLOS Article-Level Metrics
• 4.7 Eigenfactor
• 4.8 Academic Social Networks and Bibliometrics
• 4.9 ResearchGate and the Academic Social Network Sites: New Environments for New Bibliometrics?
• 4.10 Mendeley
• 5 Applications, Practice and Special Issues in Bibliometrics
• 5.1 An Ecology of Measures and Indicators: Bibliometrics in Resource Allocation
• 5.2 Benchmarkings and Rankings
• 5.3 Technological Trend Analysis
• 5.4 Research Collaboration and Bibliometric Performance
• 5.5 On the Need for Accessibility, Standardization, Regulation, and Verification in Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto and Beyond
• 5.6 Gender and Bibliometrics: A Review
• 5.7 Visualization of Research Metrics
• 5.8 Regional Distribution of Research: The Spatial Polarization in Question
• 5.9 Bibliometrics and Co-Authorship
• 6 The Data Basis in Bibliometrics
• 6.1 Web of Science, Scopus and Further Citation Databases
• 6.2 Expanding Dimensions: A New Source in the Bibliometrician’s Toolbox
• 6.3 The Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC): The Construction and Application
• 6.4 Institutional Repositories and Bibliometrics
• 7 Teaching and Training
• 7.1 Institutions for Bibliometric Qualification
• 7.2 Bibliometrics in the Curriculum
• 7.3 The Competent Bibliometrician – A Guided Tour through the Scholarly and Practitioner Literature
• 8 The Future of Bibliometrics
• 8.1 The Future of Bibliometrics: Where is Bibliometrics Heading?
• 8.2 Open Science and the Future of Metrics
• List of Contributors
• Index