A survey on scientometric indicators for assessment of researcher’s publication activity

Nowadays in order to evaluate productivity of research activities along with expert opinions scientometric indices are being increasingly used. This paper provides an overview of main scientometric indices, which take into account the number of publications and the number of citations both separately and together. Ways to incorporate additional information such as the number of co-authors, journal status, duration of a scientific career, bargain citations, etc. are shown. Pitfalls of scientometric indices associated with hidden and informal citations, as well as errors in reference lists are shown.