Journal of Informetrics

2007 - 2025

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Volume 19, issue 1, 2025

An empirical study of retractions due to honest errors: Exploring the relationship between error types and author teams

Dong Wang and Sihan Chen

Knowledge substitutability and complementarity in scientific collaboration

Kexin Lin, Beibei Hu, Zixun Li, Yi Bu and Xianlei Dong

How does Nobel prize awarding shift the research topics of Nobelists’ coauthors and non-coauthors?

Xin Xie, Jin Mao and Jiang Li

Quantification and identification of authorial writing style through higher-order text network modeling and analysis

Hongzhong Deng, Chengxing Wu, Bingfeng Ge and Hongqian Wu

Metrics fraud on ResearchGate

Savina Kirilova and Fred Zoepfl

The disruption index suffers from citation inflation: Re-analysis of temporal CD trend and relationship with team size reveal discrepancies

Alexander Michael Petersen, Felber J. Arroyave and Fabio Pammolli

Early identification of breakthrough technologies: Insights from science-driven innovations

Dan Wang, Xiao Zhou, Pengwei Zhao, Juan Pang and Qiaoyang Ren

Citation recommendation based on argumentative zoning of user queries

Shutian Ma, Chengzhi Zhang, Heng Zhang and Zheng Gao

Deep learning meets bibliometrics: A survey of citation function classification

Yang Zhang, Yufei Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao, Haihua Chen, Kai Wang, Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang, Munazza Zaib, Subhash Sagar and Rongying Zhao

Collaborating with top scientists may not improve paper novelty: A causal analysis based on the propensity score matching method

Linlin Ren, Lei Guo, Hui Yu, Feng Guo, Xinhua Wang and Xiaohui Han

Conclusions need to follow from supporting results

Robin Haunschild and Lutz Bornmann

The effects of scientific collaboration network structures on impact and innovation: A perspective from project teams

Zhifeng Liu, Chenlin Wang and Jinqing Yang

Scientific knowledge role transition prediction from a knowledge hierarchical structure perspective

Jinqing Yang and Jiming Hu

Technological recombinant strategy and breakthrough innovation of team: The moderating role of science linkage

Tao Wang, Jiajie Wang, Jing Shi, Jianjun Sun and Lele Kang

Inter- and intra-domain knowledge flows: Examining their relationship with impact at the field level over time

Giovanni Abramo and Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo

Gender differences in dropout rate: From field, career status, and generation perspectives

Yunhan Yang, Chenwei Zhang, Huimin Xu, Yi Bu, Meijun Liu and Ying Ding

Leveraging patent classification based on deep learning: The case study on smart cities and industrial Internet of Things

Munan Li and Liang Wang

Linkages among science, technology, and industry on the basis of main path analysis

Shuo Xu, Zhen Liu, Xin An, Hong Wang and Hongshen Pang

Citation counts and inclusion of references in seven free-access scholarly databases: A comparative analysis

Lorena Delgado-Quirós and José Luis Ortega

A comprehensive comparative analysis of publication monopoly phenomenon in scientific journals

Chengjun Zhang, ZhengJu Ren, Gaofeng Xiang, Wenbin Yu, Zeyu Xu, Jin Liu and Yadang Chen

Corrigendum to “A framework armed with node dynamics for predicting technology convergence” [Journal of Informetrics 18 (2024) 101583]

Guancan Yang, Jiaxin Xing, Shuo Xu and Yuntian Zhao

Unveiling intrinsic interactions of science and technology in artificial intelligence using a network portrait divergence approach

Kai Meng, Zhichao Ba, Chunying Wang and Gang Li

Evolution and effect of meeting abstracts in JCR journals

David Melero-Fuentes, Remedios Aguilar-Moya, Juan-Carlos Valderrama-Zurián and Juan Gorraiz

Integrating persistence process into the analysis of technology convergence using STERGM

Guancan Yang, Di Liu, Ling Chen and Kun Lu

A Dirichlet-Multinomial mixture model of Statistical Science: Mapping the shift of a paradigm

Massimo Bilancia and Rade Dačević

Integration vs segregation: Network analysis of interdisciplinarity in funded and unfunded research on infectious diseases

Anbang Du, Michael Head and Markus Brede

The inter-institutional and intra-institutional multi-affiliation authorships in the scientific papers produced by the well-ranked universities

Chi-shiou Lin, Mu-hsuan Huang and Dar-zen Chen

Collaboration networks and radical innovation: Two faces of tie strength and structural holes

Jia Zhang, Jian Wang, Jos Winnink and Simcha Jong

Study on the predictability of new topics of scholars: A machine learning-based approach using knowledge networks

Zhixiang Wu, Hucheng Jiang, Lianjie Xiao, Hao Wang and Jin Mao

Volume 18, issue 4, 2024

Overcoming recognition delays in disruptive research: The impact of team size, familiarity, and reputation

Huihuang Jiang, Jianlin Zhou, Yiming Ding and An Zeng

Exploring motivations for algorithm mention in the domain of natural language processing: A deep learning approach

Yuzhuo Wang, Yi Xiang and Chengzhi Zhang

An ESTs detection research based on paper entity mapping: Combining scientific text modeling and neural prophet

Dejian Yu and Bo Xiang

How do network embeddedness and knowledge stock influence collaboration dynamics? Evidence from patents

Qianqian Jin, Hongshu Chen, Xuefeng Wang and Fei Xiong

A recommendation approach of scientific non-patent literature on the basis of heterogeneous information network

Shuo Xu, Xinyi Ma, Hong Wang, Xin An and Ling Li

The Prize Winner Index (PWI): A proposal for an indicator based on scientific prizes

Lutz Bornmann and Robin Haunschild

The determinants and impact of research grants: The case of Brazilian productivity scholarships

Marcelo Perlin, Denis Borenstein, Takeyoshi Imasato and Marcos Reichert

Comparing patent in-text and front-page references to science

Jian Wang and Suzan Verberne

International collaboration leading to high citations: Global impact or home country effect?

Jue Wang, Rainer Frietsch, Peter Neuhäusler and Rosalie Hooi

Equivalence of inequality indices in the three-dimensional model of informetric impact

Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti, Marek Gagolewski, Grzegorz Siudem and Barbara Żogała-Siudem

Tree knowledge structure for better insight: Capturing biomedical science-technology knowledge linkage with MeSH

Zhejun Zheng, Yaxue Ma, Zhichao Ba and Lei Pei

Disruptive content, cross agglomeration interaction, and agglomeration replacement: Does cohesion foster strength?

Kun Tang, Baiyang Li, Qiyu Zhu and Lecun Ma

A novel approach to enterprise technical collaboration: Recommending R&D partners through technological similarity and complementarity

Minghui Qian, Mengchun Zhao, Jianliang Yang, Guancan Yang, Jiayuan Xu and Xusen Cheng

Big Tech influence over AI research revisited: Memetic analysis of attribution of ideas to affiliation

Stanisław Giziński, Paulina Kaczyńska, Hubert Ruczyński, Emilia Wiśnios, Bartosz Pieliński, Przemysław Biecek and Julian Sienkiewicz

Revalidation of the applicability of Altmetrics indicators in article-level evaluation: An empirical analysis of papers of different types of citation trajectories

Hao Li and Jianhua Hou

Is open access disrupting the journal business? A perspective from comparing full adopters, partial adopters, and non-adopters

Xijie Zhang

A framework armed with node dynamics for predicting technology convergence

Guancan Yang, Jiaxin Xing, Shuo Xu and Yuntian Zhao

Exploring the potential of disruptive innovation in the social sciences: A quantitative study of its impact on societal visibility

Yingqun Li, Ningyuan Song, Yu Shen and Lei Pei

Remarks on modified fractional counting

Paul Donner

Profiling team exploration strategies of collaborating authors from artificial intelligence in computer science

Adarsh Raghuvanshi and Vinayak,

An effective framework for measuring the novelty of scientific articles through integrated topic modeling and cloud model

Zhongyi Wang, Haoxuan Zhang, Jiangping Chen and Haihua Chen

Exploring team creativity: The nexus between freshness and experience

Wenlong Yang and Yang Wang

How does policy information shape its adoption? A citation analysis of large-scale energy policies in China

Leilei Liu, Zhichao Ba and Lei Pei

Do conference-journal articles receive more citations? A case study in physics

Dengsheng Wu, Shuwen Wang, Weixuan Xu and Jianping Li

Article ranking with location-based weight in contextual citation network

Jong Hee Jeon and Jason J. Jung

Effects of research funding on the academic impact and societal visibility of scientific research

Guiyan Ou, Kang Zhao, Renxian Zuo and Jiang Wu

A multi-entity reinforced main path analysis: Heterogeneous network embedding considering knowledge proximity

Zhaoping Yan and Kaiyu Fan

On the temporal diversity of knowledge in science

Alex J. Yang

Top research performance in Poland over three decades: A multidimensional micro-data approach

Marek Kwiek and Wojciech Roszka

Predicting the emergence of disruptive technologies by comparing with references via soft prompt-aware shared BERT

Guoxiu He, Chenxi Lin, Jiayu Ren and Peichen Duan

Should we circumvent knowledge path dependency? The impact of conventional learning and collaboration diversity on knowledge creation

Le Chang, Huiying Zhang and Chao Zhang

Corrigendum to “Societal and scientific impact of policy research: A large-scale empirical study of some explanatory factors using Altmetric and Overton” [Journal of Informetrics 18/3 (2024) 101530]

Pablo Dorta-González, Alejandro Rodríguez-Caro and María Isabel Dorta-González

Corrigendum to “Conscientiousness predicts doctoral students’ research productivity” [Journal of Informetrics 17/1 (2023) 101353]

Jonas Lindahl

Volume 18, issue 3, 2024

Influence of interdisciplinarity of scientific papers on the durability of citation diffusion: A perspective from citation discontinuance

Jianhua Hou, Hao Li and Yang Zhang

Scientific impact analysis: Unraveling the link between linguistic properties and citations

Priya Porwal and Manoj H. Devare

A new approach to computing the distances between research disciplines based on researcher collaborations and similarity measurement techniques

Bram Vancraeynest, Hoang-Son Pham and Amr Ali-Eldin

The fading of status bias during the open peer review process

Zhuanlan Sun, Ka Lok Pang and Yiwei Li

Comparing semantic representation methods for keyword analysis in bibliometric research

Guo Chen, Siqi Hong, Chenxin Du, Panting Wang, Zeyu Yang and Lu Xiao

Societal and scientific impact of policy research: A large-scale empirical study of some explanatory factors using Altmetric and Overton

Pablo Dorta-González, Alejandro Rodríguez-Caro and María Isabel Dorta-González

The misuse of the nonlinear field normalization method: Nonlinear field normalization citation counts at the paper level should not be added or averaged

Xing Wang

Corrigendum to “Funding, evaluation, and the performance of national research systems” [J. Informetrics, 12/1 (2018) 365–384]

Ulf Sandström and Peter Van den Besselaar

Open peer review correlates with altmetrics but not with citations: Evidence from Nature Communications and PLoS One

Xi Cheng, Haoran Wang, Li Tang, Weiyan Jiang, Maotian Zhou and Guoyan Wang

The mediating impact of citation scope: Evidence from China's ESI publications

Li Tang, Defang Yang, Mingxing Wang and Ying Guo

Transdisciplinary fine-grained citation content analysis: A multi-task learning perspective for citation aspect and sentiment classification

Ling Kong, Wei Zhang, Haotian Hu, Zhu Liang, Yonggang Han, Dongbo Wang and Min Song

Are the bibliometric growth patterns of excellent scholars similar? From the analysis of ACM Fellows

Xianzhe Peng, Huixin Xu and Jin Shi

Corrigendum to “Do we measure novelty when we analyze unusual combinations of cited references? A validation study of bibliometric novelty indicators based on F1000Prime data” [Journal of Informetrics 13/4 (2019) 100979]

Lutz Bornmann, Alexander Tekles, Helena H. Zhang and Fred Y. Ye

Uncovering milestone papers: A network diffusion and game theory approach

Wei Zhang, Juyang Cao, Manuel Sebastian Mariani, Zhen-Zhen Wang, Mingyang Zhou, Wei Chen and Hao Liao

Foundations of Narrative Bibliometrics

Daniel Torres-Salinas, Enrique Orduña-Malea, Ángel Delgado-Vázquez, Juan Gorraiz and Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado

How the readability of manuscript before journal submission advantages peer review process: Evidence from biomedical scientific publications

Zhuanlan Sun, Dongjin He and Yiwei Li

A co-citation approach to the analysis on the interaction between scientific and technological knowledge

Xi Chen, Jin Mao and Gang Li

Trends in emerging topics generation across countries in life science and medicine

Bryan Mathis and Ryosuke L. Ohniwa

Networks and their degree distribution, leading to a new concept of small worlds

Leo Egghe

Development and application of a comprehensive glossary for the identification of statistical and methodological concepts in peer review reports

Ivan Buljan, Daniel Garcia-Costa, Francisco Grimaldo, Richard A. Klein, Marjan Bakker and Ana Marušić

Analysis of the distribution of authorship by gender in scientific output: A global perspective

Rodrigo Sánchez-Jiménez, Pablo Guerrero-Castillo, Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote, Gali Halevi and Félix De-Moya-Anegón

Investigating clinical links in edge-labeled citation networks of biomedical research: A translational science perspective

Xin Li, Xuli Tang and Wei Lu

On journal rankings and researchers' abilities

Wojciech Charemza, Michał Lewandowski and Łukasz Woźny

An approach for identifying complementary patents based on deep learning

Jinzhu Zhang, Jialu Shi and Peiyu Zhang

SMIAltmetric: A comprehensive metric for evaluating social media impact of scientific papers on Twitter (X)

Zuzheng Wang, Yongxu Lu, Yuanyuan Zhou and Jiaojiao Ji

Integrating prior field knowledge as key documents with main path analysis utilizing key-node path search

Chung-Huei Kuan

Volume 18, issue 2, 2024

Exploration, exploitation and funding success: Evidence from junior scientists supported by the Chinese Young Scientists Fund

Liying Guo, Yang Wang and Meiling Li

Dubious cross-national affiliations obscure the assessment of international research collaboration

Chung-Huei Kuan, Dar-Zen Chen and Mu-Hsuan Huang

Data labeling through the centralities of co-reference networks improves the classification accuracy of scientific papers

Zheng Xie, Yiqin Lv, Yiping Song and Qi Wang

Gini-stable Lorenz curves and their relation to the generalised Pareto distribution

Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti, Marek Gagolewski, Grzegorz Siudem and Barbara Żogała-Siudem

Authorship regulations in performance-based funding systems and publication behaviour – A case study of German medical faculties

Valeria Aman and Peter van den Besselaar

Textual features of peer review predict top-cited papers: An interpretable machine learning perspective

Zhuanlan Sun

Heterogeneity of national accounting systems, world-class universities and financial resources: What are the links?

Alessandro Avenali, Cinzia Daraio, Simone Di Leo and Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz

Rank analysis of most cited publications, a new approach for research assessments

Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro and Ricardo Brito

Does the handling time of scientific papers relate to their academic impact and social attention? Evidence from Nature, Science, and PNAS

Yundong Xie, Qiang Wu, Yezhu Wang, Li Hou and Yuanyuan Liu

Does open data have the potential to improve the response of science to public health emergencies?

Xiaowei Ma, Hong Jiao, Yang Zhao, Shan Huang and Bo Yang

Entropy, heterogeneity, and their impact on technology progress

Wonchang Hur

A multiple k-means cluster ensemble framework for clustering citation trajectories

Joyita Chakraborty, Dinesh K. Pradhan and Subrata Nandi

When career-boosting is on the line: Equity and inequality in grant evaluation, productivity, and the educational backgrounds of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions individual fellows in social sciences and humanities

Tamás Tóth, Márton Demeter, Sándor Csuhai and Zsolt Balázs Major

Early identification of breakthrough research from sleeping beauties using machine learning

Xin Li, Xiaodi Ma and Ye Feng

The internal dynamics of journals’ h-cores over time

Yves Fassin

Modeling citation concentration through a mixture of Leimkuhler curves

Emilio Gómez-Déniz and Pablo Dorta-González

Impact of gender composition of academic teams on disruptive output

Ming-Ze Zhang, Tang-Rong Wang, Peng-Hui Lyu, Qi-Mei Chen, Ze-Xia Li and Eric W.T. Ngai

Halt the ongoing decoupling and reboot US-China scientific collaboration

Li Tang

International mobility matters: Research collaboration and scientific productivity

Jiangwei Gu, Xuelian Pan, Shuxin Zhang and Jiaoyu Chen

Identifying knowledge evolution in computer science from the perspective of academic genealogy

Zhongmeng Fu, Yuan Cao and Yong Zhao

A complement to the novel disruption indicator based on knowledge entities

Tong Tong, Wanru Wang and Fred Y. Ye

Volume 18, issue 1, 2024

An automatic and association-based procedure for hierarchical publication subject categorization

Cristina Urdiales and Eduardo Guzmán

Enhancing semantic text similarity with functional semantic knowledge (FOP) in patents

Hao Teng, Nan Wang, Hongyu Zhao, Yingtong Hu and Haitao Jin

Delayed citation impact of interdisciplinary research

Yang Zhang, Yang Wang, Haifeng Du and Shlomo Havlin

Relationship between the principle of least effort and the average cost of information in a zipfian context

Abdellatif Agouzal, Thierry Lafouge and Marc Bertin

Mathematical informetrics: Hirsch-type equations and bundles

Leo Egghe

Unveiling the impact and dual innovation of funded research

Alex J. Yang

Exploring the scientific impact of negative results

Dan Tian, Xiao Hu, Yuchen Qian and Jiang Li

Openness to international collaboration and tie strength in enhancing knowledge creation

Jing Tu

Multidimensional indicators to identify emerging technologies: Perspective of technological knowledge flow

Man Jiang, Siluo Yang and Qiang Gao

Revision and academic impact: A case study of bioRxiv preprint papers

Wen Peng, Mingliang Yue, Mingyue Sun and Tingcan Ma

International mobility characteristics, effects of, and effects on elite scientists

Fang Han, Ruhao Zhang, Shengtai Zhang and Junpeng Yuan

Dependency, reciprocity, and informal mentorship in predicting long-term research collaboration: A co-authorship matrix-based multivariate time series analysis

Yongjun Zhu, Donghun Kim, Ting Jiang, Yi Zhao, Jiangen He, Xinyi Chen and Wen Lou

Do scholars' collaborative tendencies impact the quality of their publications? A generalized propensity score matching analysis

Qiuling Liu, Lei Guo, Yiping Sun, Linlin Ren, Xinhua Wang and Xiaohui Han

Validity and bias of indicators of international collaboration: A theoretical analysis with an empirical study of Ukraine-Russia-United States and China-United States

Lawrence Smolinsky and Seungwon Yang

Does open identity of peer reviewers positively relate to citations?

Li Hou, Qiang Wu and Yundong Xie

Assessing the stability of collaboration networks: A structural cohesion analysis perspective

Dayong Zhang, Hao Men and Zhaoxin Zhang

Scientists’ disciplinary characteristics and collaboration behaviour under the convergence paradigm: A multilevel network perspective

Jing Li and Qian Yu

Disruptive development path measurement for emerging technologies based on the patent citation network

Xiaoli Wang, Wenting Liang, Xuanting Ye, Lingdi Chen and Yun Liu

“I'd like to publish in Q1, but there's no Q1 to be found”: Study of journal quartile distributions across subject categories and topics

Denis Kosyakov and Vladimir Pislyakov

The moderating role of personal characteristics of authors in the publications’ quality for quantity trade-off

Giovanni Abramo, CiriacoAndrea D'Angelo and Flavia Di Costa

Corrigendum to “Understanding the domain development through a word status observation model” [Journal of Informetrics 17 (2023) 1–19/101395]

Tongyang Zhang, Ran Sun, Julia Fensel, Andrew Yu, Yi Bu and Jian Xu