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author is cited in highly cited papers. In their work they compare 40
researchers in the field of information retrieval (IR) and indeed, find
some remarkable differences between these two indicators. An extensive
study of scientometric indicators and their application in research evalua-
tion (for this aspect we refer the reader to Chapter 8: Research
Evaluation) can be found in Vinkler (2010). Scholarly Metrics under the
Microscope compiled by Blaise Cronin and Cassidy Sugimoto (2015) is a
one-stop resource, as they call it, bringing together a collection of more
than 60 articles, comments, editorials, letters and blog posts, written
between 1955 and 2015, covering different concerns—theoretical, con-
ceptual, methodological and ethical—related to performance metrics for
scholarly research. In conclusion we recall that indicators lead to compari-
sons and open up expectations for improvements.