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Scientometrics in R
:
Bibliometrics, Network Science, and Research Evaluation
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Welcome!
Impressum
Acknowledgments
How to use this book
Notation
About the author
1
Find Your Method
Foundations
2
What Is Scientometrics?
3
Theoretical Underpinnings
4
Ethics and Responsible Metrics
5
Data Sources Compared
Data Acquisition in R
6
APIs and Packages
7
Parsing Native Exports
8
Building Reproducible Corpora
9
Working with Full Text
Core Bibliometric Analysis
10
Descriptive Bibliometrics
11
Productivity and Impact Indicators
12
Journal Metrics
13
Author-Level Analysis and Disambiguation
14
Institutional and Country Analysis
15
Temporal Analysis and Citation Aging
Network & Mapping Methods
16
Co-authorship Networks
17
Co-citation and Bibliographic Coupling
18
Co-word and Keyword Co-occurrence
19
Community Detection and Backbone Extraction
20
Science Mapping and Overlay Maps
21
Network Visualization and Interoperability
Text & Topic Analysis
22
Text Mining Bibliographic Corpora
23
Topic Modeling
24
Keyword Extraction
25
Embeddings for Scientometrics
26
Detecting Emerging Topics
Advanced Topics
27
Altmetrics
28
Open Science Indicators
29
Gender and Equity Analysis
30
Retraction Analysis
31
Funding Analysis and Grant-to-Publication Linkage
32
Patent–Paper Linkages
33
Causal Inference in Scientometrics
34
Reproducibility, RRIDs, and Badges
Production & Reporting
35
Reproducible Pipelines
36
Interactive Dashboards
37
Parameterized Quarto Reports
38
Building a Bibliometric Shiny App
Case Studies
39
Case Study 1: CRISPR Field Review (2010–2024)
40
Case Study 2: Institutional Benchmarking
41
Case Study 3: Journal Portfolio Analysis
42
Case Study 4: Gender Gap in Scientific Publishing
43
Case Study 5: Detecting Emerging Topics
Appendix
A
R Setup, renv, and Docker
B
SQL Primer for the OpenAlex Snapshot
C
Indicator Crosswalk Across Databases
D
Cheatsheets and Quick Reference
E
Exercise Solutions
F
Exercise Solutions
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