What Justifies whether Quality or Quantity of Publications? : Mapping on Publications of the Journal "Scientometrics" 2000-2017

The present study evaluated publication output of the Journal “Scientometrics” for a period of 18 years between 2000 and 2017. The aim of study is to find out whether the quality is considered in terms of publication count or citation count. The publication and citation data have been downloaded from the Clarivate analytics -Web of Science database. Histcite and Bibexcel applications are used to present the dataset. The analysis focuses on the parameters of citation impact at local and global level, predominant authors and their h-index ranks, ranking of institution and countries. In addition, Scientographical mapping of density is presented using the VOS viewer software mapping techniques.

Keywords: h-index; TLCS; TGCS; Mapping; Scientometrics; ACPP; Citations.