Handbook of Bibliometric Indicators

Roberto Todeschini is full professor of chemometrics at the Department of Environmental Sciences of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milano, Italy), where he constituted the Milano Chemometrics and QSAR Research Group. His main research activities concern chemometrics in all its aspects, QSAR, molecular descriptors, multicriteria decision making and software development. President of the International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry from 2008 to 2014, president of the Italian Chemometric Society and "ad honorem" professor of the University of Azuay (Cuenca, Ecuador), he is author of more than 170 publications on international journals and books. The latest is "Molecular Descriptors for Chemoinformatics" R. Todeschini and V. Consonni; Wiley-VCH, 2009. Alberto Baccini is professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Siena (Italy). He started his research activities by working on various aspects of applied economics and of the history of economic thought. He focused his attention on the history of the theory of choice under uncertainty, becoming an expert of the works of the British economist Francis Y. Edgeworth. More recently, he has been working on application of network analysis techniques to the study of scientometric data, and on topics at the boundaries between scientometrics, statistics and economics, such as the statistical properties of scientometric indicators; researchers' productivity and research evaluation.

• User's Guide Notations and symbolsIntroductionDICTIONARYA: aARCA index to axiomatic approaches to bibliometric indicatorsB: Balanced Citation Count to bylineC: Carbon_h-factor to cyclomatic numberD: database citation potential to dynamic discounted cumulated impactE: ECR (expected citation rate) to External Journal Impact FactorF: Faculty Member Score to fuzzy academic performance indexG: Garfield Factor to GWD (generalized Waring distribution)H: harmonic author count to h-type indicesI: I3 (Integrated Impact Indicator) to iteratively weighted indicesJ: Jaccard-Tanimoto coefficient to Journal Paper ProductivityK: Kaur h-index to Kullback-Leibler relative entropyL: Lagrange distance to L-W (Liberman-Wolf) bonding numberM: Mahalanobis distance to mutual entropyN: negentropy to NWDC (Normalized Weighted Direct Citations)O: OA (open access) to overall interactivityP: PageRank to PY/CY diagramsQ: q-index to quasityR: Ramirez-Garcia-Del Rio renormalized impact factor to Rw indicatorS: SALSA to synchronous journal diffusion factorsT: Taber c-index to TZS (total Z-score)U: U-Class journals to utility indexV: Vantage Point to VOSViewerW: WAI (weighted affinity index) to Wu-indexX: x-indexY: yearly h-index to Yule-Simpson effectZ: zero-order h-index to z testBibliography