On Evaluation Of Faculty Research Impact Of Citation Analysis
<p class="MsoBlockText" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-family: "CG Times","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An overview of citation analysis is presented, along with criteria for and examples of manual and electronic citation analysis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The example of the manual count determines the average number of bibliographic citations per article; the recency of the citation;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the author self-citation rate; the percentage of citations listed in the articles from books, journals, or other publications;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the average number of pages per article; the incidence of citations to the journal in which the article is published (journal self-citations).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.</span></p>