On Evaluation Of Faculty Research Impact Of Citation Analysis

Abstract

Citation analysis is gaining importance in evaluation of faculty research because of the need for objective, consistent analysis and because of the availability of databases that provide citation information. An overview of citation analysis is presented, along with criteria for and examples of manual and electronic citation analysis. The example of the manual count determines the average number of bibliographic citations per article; the recency of the citation; the author self-citation rate; the percentage of citations listed in the articles from books, journals, or other publications; the average number of pages per article; the incidence of citations to the journal in which the article is published (journal self-citations). The examples of the electronic count give number of citations from authors in other journals, impact factor, immediacy index, and cited half-life. Results provide insight into availability of data and possible uses of that data; i.e., faculty and research evaluation, selection of journals in which to publish, and implications for the future.