Caveats and Cautions
Abbott, A., et al. (2010). Do metrics matter? Nature, 465(7300), 860-862. Get It @ AU
Adler, R., Ewing, J., & Taylor, P. (2008). Citation statistics: a report from the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in coopeeration with the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Berlin: International Mathematical Union. http://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/Report/CitationStatistics.pdf
Arnold, D.N. (2008). Integrity under attack: the state of scholarly publishing. [Talk of the Society editorial] SIAM News 42(10). Get It @ AU
Ball, P. (2008). A longer paper gathers more citations. Nature, 455(7211), 274-275. Get It @ AU
Browman, H.I., & Stergiou, K.I. (Eds.) (2008). Use and misuse of bibliometrics indices in evaluating scholarly performance [Special Issue]. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8(1). http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esep/v8/n1/
IEEE Board of Directors (2013). IEEE statement on appropriate use of bibliometric indicators. IEEE. http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/bibliometrics_statement.html
Laloe, F., & Mosseri, R. (2009). Bibliometric evaluation of individual researchers: not even right ... not even wrong. Europhysics News, 40(5), 26-29. http://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/2009/05/epn20095p26.pdf
Pudovkin, A.I., & Garfield, E. (2004). Rank-normalized impact factor: a way to compare journal performance across subject categories. Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 41, 507-515. Get It @ AU
Comparisons
Gray, E., & Hodkinson, S.Z. (2008, Summer). Comparison of Journal Citation Reports and Scopus imact factors and environmental siences journals. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, Issue 54, Article 1. http://www.istl.org/08-summer/article1.html
Kulkami, A.V., et al. (2009). Comparison of citation in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar for articles published in general medical journals. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 302(10), 1092. Get It @ AU
Meho, L.I., & Yang, K. (2007). Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS facutly: Web of Science versus Scopus and Google Scholar. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(13), 2105-2125. Get It @ AU
Podlubny, I., & Kassayova, I. (2006). Towards a better list of citation superstars: compiling a multidisciplinary list of highly cited researchers. Research Evaluation, 15(3), 154-169. Get It @ AU
Van Noorden, R. (2010). Metrics: a profusion of measures. Nature, 465(7300), 864-866. Get It @ AU
Van Aalst, J. (2010). Using Google Scholar to estimate the impact of journal articles in education. Educational Researcher, 39(5), 387-400. https://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Publications/Journals/Educational_Researcher/3905/387-400_07EDR10.pdf
For Librarians
Wagner, A.B. (2009, Spring). Percentile-based journal impact factors: a neglected collection development metric. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Issue 57, Referred Article 1. http://www.istl.org/09-spring/refereed1.html
History and Background
Garfield, E. (1997). Concept of citation indexing: a unique and innovative tool for navigating the research literature. Retrieved Jully 22, 2008, from http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/vladivostok.html.
Garfield, E. (2007). The evolution of the Science Citation Index. International Microbiology, 10(1), 65-69. Get It @ AU
Moed, J.F. (2005). Citation analysis in research evaluation. Dordrecht: Springer. Get It @ AU
Other Indices and Methodologies
Gonzalez-Pereira, B., Guerrero-Bote, V.P., Moya-Anegon, F. (2009). The SJR indictor: a new indicator of journals' scientific prestige. Tech. Rep. arxiv:abs/0912.4141, retrieved June 11, 2010 from http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0912/0912.4141.pdf
Priem, J., & Hemminger B.M. (2010). Scientometrics 2.0: toward new metrics of scholarly impact on the social web. First Monday, 15(7), article 2. http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2874/2570
Rovner, S.L. (2008). The import of impact: new types of journal metrics grow more influential in the scientific community. Chemcial and Engineering News, 86(20), 39-42. http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/86/8621sci1.html
Schreiber, M. (2008a). An empirical investigation of the g-index for 26 physicists in comparison with the h-index, the A-index, and the R-index. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(9), 1513-1522. Get It @ AU
Schreiber, M. (2008b). The influence of self-citation corrections on Egghe's g index. Scientometrics, 76(1), 187-200. Get It @ AU
Van Leeuwen, T. (2008). Testing the validity of the Hersch-index for research assessment purposes. Research Evaluation, 17(2), 157-160. Get It @ AU