Discussion of the assessment and comparison of scientific journals, bibliometrics, and types of impact factors focuses on a general framework for the relative comparison of journal impact. Highlights include the relative impact of a journal within a set of journals, or meta-journal; and mathematical explorations of relative indicators. (Author/LRW)

Discusses the influence of publication delays on the aging of scientific literature and explains how the undisturbed aging function and the publication delay combine to give the observed aging function through a mathematical operation called convolution. Shows the convolution of various distributions and considers a paradox between theory and real…

Discusses science evaluation studies that seek to determine quantitatively the contribution of different authors, departments, or countries to the whole system, and suggests that different scoring methods can yield totally different rankings. Presents formulas for counting procedures, nontrivial examples of anomalies, and possible solutions.…