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Investigación bibliotecológica
On-line version ISSN 2448-8321Print version ISSN 0187-358X
Abstract
TARRIO-SAAVEDRA, Javier; OROIS, Elena and NAYA, Salvador. Metric study of the research activities using free software R: The case of Galician university system. Investig. bibl [online]. 2017, vol.31, n.spe, pp.221-247. ISSN 2448-8321. https://doi.org/10.22201/iibi.24488321xe.2017.nesp1.57891.
This work represents a new alternative for the study, classification and comparison of the scientific production corresponding to research entities. It consists on the application of statistical data processing functions available in the R software’s Citan package. In particular, the bibliometric study of publications of universities of A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela and Vigo, in the period 2000-2011, compiled by the Scopus database. The study was conducted using the statistical analysis of the data, the application of models of Lotka and Price, nonparametric and parametric modeling (Pareto) of the data, and the calculation and analysis of indicators of the scientific production like the h and g indexes, and others lesser known as rp1, lp, Ge1, Ge5 and Slp1. A novelty consists in a variant of the h index (hh) that defines the group of researchers who are the most productive of each university, the elite, and estimates the researching quality of such representative elites.
Keywords : Bibliometrics; Scientometrics; h index; g index; Scopus; Software R; Science communication.