''Scientometrics'' is a monthly

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covering the field of scientometrics. It publishes original studies, short communications, review papers, letters to the editor, and book reviews. It is published by Akadémiai Kiadó and

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and was established in 1978. Its founder and first

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was Tibor Braun.

Abstracting and indexing

This journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 3.238.

Plagiarism case

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reported that the editor of ''Scientometrics'' initially reacted indifferently to the discovery of extended word-for-word

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in a 2013 article. The authors in question had copied material from a source and provided a citation, but had not used quotation marks. In the end, the article was retracted.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://www.springer.com/journal/11192/about
Derek John de Solla Price Medal of the journal ''Scientometrics''
International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics Springer Science+Business Media academic journals Information science journals Publications established in 1978 Monthly journals English-language journals Akadémiai Kiadó academic journals