... that the Royal Society's report gives too much emphasis to the growth rate of the publications of Chinese researchers when interpolating those data and forecasting that, within the decade and possibly as early as 2013, China will be ahead of even the USA in terms of the number of publications. Findings...

...Andreas Thor; Lutz Bornmann Purpose The single publication h index has been introduced by Schubert as the h index calculated from the list of citing publications of one single publication. This paper aims to look at the calculation of the single publication h index...

... an author's publications and that the citation profile of a set of papers follows a Zipfian distribution, and from this derives a simple mathematical expression for excluding self‐citation from h‐index values. Findings It is shown that this new index is simply equal to the integer value...

... the methods by which academic knowledge is both constructed and disseminated. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Peer review Knowledge creation Publications Online operations The internet enables users to produce and distribute content almost as easily as they receive it. One specific...

... of the scientific publishing process is presented (the Scientific Publication Life‐Cycle Model). The model has been developed in particular to provide a basis for studying the cost implications of different business models. It describes the life‐cycle of the single publication, in particular the refereed journal...