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Self-citing rate, 117 118 Synchronous studies, 294 297
Self-retraction, 64 Synonyms, 114
Self-similar, 303
Sequence, 9 T
Serendipity- serendipitous, 18, 27
Tacit knowledge, 11
Set, 9 10
Technical reports, 24
Sher, 18
Textbook, 23
Shneider’s typology of scientists, 20 22
THE(S) ranking, 259
Simon, Herbert, 19
Thomson Reuters, 103 105, 148 149
Simpson index, 311, 313
Three layer division of authors, 30
Single-authored publications, 203
Three tier evaluation system, 33 35
Six degrees of separation, 328 329
Three worlds (Popper’s), 15
Size-frequency function, 301 302, 306 308
Time series, 216 217, 227 235
Skew(ed), 71, 187
T indicator, 272
left, 71, 82
Toll-access journals, 54
right, 71, 82
Top x% publications, 272 273
Sleeping beauties, 145 148
Totally connected, 318
Slope, 84, 86
Transfer principle (Dalton’s), 311
Small, Henry, 136, 336
Tri-citations, 140
Small world phenomenon, 328 329
Triple helix, 6
SNIP index, 166, 176 178 Two-dimensional informetrics, 293,
Social constructivism, 110 111
299 306, 308
Social influmetrics, 4
Two-tier communication model, 26
Social network analysis (SNA), 316,
319 320
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), U
103 104, 148 UCINET, 331
Social sciences, 260 261, 276 280, 285 286 Uncited is not unused, 102
Social stratification, 58 Under-cited influential articles, 252
Stakeholders, 248 249, 255 United Kingdom, 69 70, 69f
Standard deviation, 81, 84, 88 University
Statistics, 67 97 evaluation, 257 258
descriptive, 67 90, 97 ideal, 257 258, 265 266
inferential, 67 68, 90 97 mission, 255, 257
Steps (in the publication process), 25 26 rankings, 258 268
Stigler’s law, 122 123 Unreplicable research, 20
Stokes’ classification, 13 Usefulness, 202
Strategic behavior, 286 Use-inspired basic research, 13 14
Structured abstract, 27 U-test. See Mann-Whitney test
Success breeds success, 305
Success index, 223 224 V
Success multipliers, 223 225
Validation study, 19 20
Superspecialization, 153
Validity, 202
Synchronous author impact factor (SAIF),
Van der Veer Martens and Goodrum
221 model, 15 16
Synchronous impact factor, 157 160, 185, Van Parijs typology, 258 259, 264 265
194 198, 221
Variance, 81