Prof. Dr. Ayhan Demirbas' scientometric biography

Abstract

It is well established fact that Turkish scientists have increasingly contributed to the literature on the bio-energy in recent years. However, there has not been any biographic study of these scientists as well as scientists working in the field of bio-energy. Therefore, as a first-ever case study of Turkish scientists, this paper presents a scientometric biography of Prof. Dr. Ayhan Demirbas working in the area of bio-energy since 1980s. He produced 454 articles and reviews in the interdisciplinary areas relating to the bio-energy between 1984 and 2010 where 379 of them were indexed by the SCI or the SSCI. He received 7,309 citations for his 454 papers giving a ratio for the "Average Citations per Item" as 16.1 and "H-index" over 39 as of July 2011, suggesting that the scientific impact of his research on the relevant literature has been significant. This paper suggests that scientometric methods are useful for the evaluation of individual researchers and for publicizing their scientific achievement.