Measuring science in our highly digitized world

Abstract

During the past two decades the availability of scholarly data repositories such as Google Scholar, Elsevier Scopus offered tremendous opportunities to the field of scientometrics to analyze the dynamics of science and help design indicators to evaluate the scientific impact of scholars, journals and academic institutions. Thus, scientometrics transformed fast into the exciting new discipline of Science of Science, which seeks to understand, quantify and predict research activities and the corresponding outcomes. In this article we provide a brief coverage of very recent work related to scientific ranking and impact prediction, aim at deepening our faith to Science of Science and stimulating further efforts in this transdisciplinary field. © 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.