Abstract
The objectives of this paper are to introduce the metric (called ‘absolute document incidences’), to compare this metric with the metric used by Braun and Schubert and Gu (called ‘document frequencies’), and to briefly present some potential uses and limitations of absolute document incidences. This paper builds on the feedback on my presentation at Collnet 2006. The research presented briefly in this paper aims to develop and apply a metric for estimating trends in databases of articles. The motivation for estimating trends in these databases is that these trends are possibly of interest in research and science policy. This research is part of my Doctoral project on the use of bibliometric data in the field of research policy.
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