Scope & Mission

Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics (RMA) publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research on the development, applications, and evaluation of scholarly metrics, including bibliometric, scientometric, informetric, and altmetric studies. Specialty Chief Editor Chaomei Chen, at Drexel University, is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international experts. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics and the public worldwide.

Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics aims to provide an open and stimulating forum for the study of the advancement, dissemination, and assessment of scholarly knowledge in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences. The specialty journal publishes high-quality qualitative and quantitative studies of academic work at various levels of granularity. Its scope covers the development, applications, and evaluation of scholarly metrics, including but not limited to, bibliometric, scientometric, informetric, and altmetric studies. In addition, the specialty journal publishes fundamental research of academic knowledge and relevant analytic and evaluative techniques. Topics of interest:

- Altmetrics
- Bibliometrics
- Case studies
- Citation analysis
- Informetrics
- Machine learning
- Methodologies
- Patent analysis
- Qualitative studies of scholarly knowledge
- Research assessment and evaluation
- Research policy
- Reviews and surveys of the state of the art
- Scholarly communication
- Scholarly discourse and metadiscourse
- Science and technology indicators
- Science mapping
- Science studies
- Scientometrics
- Technometrics
- Text Mining
- Visual Analytics
- Webometrics

Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics is member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. 

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