Journal of Informetrics

2007 - 2026

Current editor(s): Leo Egghe

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Volume 20, issue 3, 2026

The dynamic scholar: How evolving co-authorship fuels scholarly performance

Xiaoyang Lu, Chaoying Tang and Stefanie E. Naumann

Author team size as a structural pathway of citation impact: A transformation-robust bibliometric analysis

Shlomit Hadad, Daphne R. Raban and Noa Aharony

AuthormetriX: automated calculation of authors’ scholarly output based on multiple non-inflationary author credit-allocation schemas, and collaboration metrics from a scopus corpus

Samuel O. Adeosun

A novel indicator h* to measure research efficiency and identify researchers facing challenges: Application to engineering sciences

Alexis Rusinek, Tomasz Jankowiak and Aurélien Besnard

Epistemic pollination: How sleeping beauty papers fertilize scientific ecosystems

Kemal Yayla

“What cannot be said cannot be measured”: On the philosophical foundations and limits of bibliometrics

Juan Gorraiz

A social media-driven disruption index for identifying disruptive research

Zhenzhen Xu, Quan Lu, Shengzhi Huang, Fan Zhang, Junying Chen and Jin Zeng

Biblioshiny and the SAAS Workflow: An integrated framework for transparent and reproducible science mapping. A demonstration through the replication of a study

Massimo Aria, Corrado Cuccurullo, D’Aniello, Luca and Maria Spano

Is equal credit really equal? The impact of academic evaluation policies on authorship decisions

Liwei Zhang and Jue Wang

Beyond university rankings: Classifying national higher education systems through SIR performance concentration

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

Distant but bridgeable: how geographic and cognitive distance jointly shape interdisciplinary knowledge production

Alex J. Yang, Yujie Shi, Fanming Wang, Xinyu Song and Sanhong Deng

Testing for alphabetical bias in the c-score: Implications for evaluating scientific excellence

D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

LLM-Assisted writing in engineering is associated with higher citations as evidenced from 1.17 million papers

Zoie McCreery and M.Z. Naser

Revealing country-level disparities in researchers’ transition to artificial intelligence: A two-stage analytical framework

Saeyoung Choi and Junghye Lee

The role of interdisciplinary funding in supporting impactful interdisciplinary research

Bingyi Wu, Tianjun Wu, Yanmeng Xing, Xinzhi Xie and Chao Min

CiteFairly: Toward the improvement of gendered citation practices in the software engineering field

Karolina Tchilinguirova, Khadija Aftab, Amanuel Aknaw, Alvine Boaye Belle and Oluwafemi Odu

A novel knowledge-entity-grounded scholarly retrieval framework in full-text academic documents

Si Shen, Chuan Jiang, Dongbo Wang, Zhixiao Zhao, Haotian Hu, Min Song and Jia Tina Du

The illusion of scientific talent identification through publication counts: a critical commentary on Haunschild and Bornmann

F. Pacheco-Torgal

Exploring the impact of super-cited papers on counting methods, counting inflation and university rankings: Evidence from engineering

Mu-hsuan Huang, Yuntong Xiao and Xiaojuan Liu

Does the Matthew effect exist in open peer review? An empirical study of institutional prestige effects on review outcomes

Jeongyeon Choi, Yi Zhao and Yongjun Zhu

The Price–Pareto growth model of networks with community structure

Łukasz Brzozowski, Marek Gagolewski, Grzegorz Siudem and Barbara Żogała-Siudem

The landscape of problematic papers in the field of non-coding RNA

Ying Lou, Zhengyi Zhou, Guosheng Wang, Zhesi Shen and Menghui Li

Modeling zero-inflated and heavy-tailed citation data using Bayesian hurdle quantile regression with flexible distributions

Sadaf Sultana, Sajid Ali and Ismail Shah

Network positions within scholars and intellectual networks

Alejandro Espinosa-Rada

Originated versus imported knowledge: Revisiting the relationship between novelty and academic impact

Shan Huang, Jin Mao, Kun Lu and Gang Li

Efficient peer review via a fairness-aware priority mechanism: Game theoretic modelling and evaluation

Aya Hussein, Heba Montaser and Kyle Smith

Who did what? A TF-IDF-based contribution metric for team science

Ting Xiao

The diffusion of artificial intelligence methods in scientific research: growth pattern, disciplinary variation, and task alignment

Wen Lou, Tan Fu, Mingzhu Gao and Qianqian Xu

Volume 20, issue 2, 2026

Evolving contributions and collaboration efficiency of individual and organizational users on Gitee

Yizhuo Li and Yijie Cao

The impact of mentorship on the citation-based performance of graduate dissertation: A social capital perspective

Li Zhai and Xiangbin Yan

Empowering the next generation: How team hierarchy relates to junior researcher retention

Huimin Xu, Yi Bu, Meijun Liu and Ying Ding

New indicators for capturing the balances and roles of nations in the global knowledge exchange system

Zhe Cao, Lin Zhang, Henrik Karlstrøm, Ronald Rousseau and Gunnar Sivertsen

Leveraging GANs for citation intent classification and its impact on citation network analysis

Davi A. Bezerra, Filipi N. Silva and Diego R. Amancio

A CRediT‐based quantitative study of co‐corresponding authorship: Collaboration patterns and contribution distribution

Tian-Yuan Huang and Jie Xue

Textual content and academic journals selectivity: A case of economic journals

Paweł Baranowski and Szymon Wójcik

Breaking through the constraints of academic social capital: Insights from top scientists’ collaboration strategies

Xingpeng Liu, An Zeng and Xiaohua Cui

AI-generated text detection via multilevel Zipf’s law

Zhenhua Wang, Aixin Yao and Ming Ren

The OpenAlex database in review: Evaluating its applications, capabilities, and limitations

María Verónica Forchino and Daniel Torres-Salinas

Relationship between peer review quality and scientific impact: Insights from LLMs-assessed reviews

Zhuanlan Sun

A review of the science of team science: Data sources, research methods, disciplinary characteristics, and research topics

Rui Liu, Yi Zhao, Eunji Jeon, Yi Bu, Irene Li and Yongjun Zhu

Identification of hyperauthorship in scientific publications: An approach based on outlier detection methods

Rodrigo Sánchez-Jiménez, Rodríguez, J․Tinguaro, Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote and Félix de Moya-Anegón

The hierarchical structure of research teams and its association with performance

Guoshuai Ma, Wenjie Wang, Gangzhu Qiao and Haiwei Lei

Coordination complexity and its impact on disruption: A functional lead perspective

Shuo Liu, Dingkang Lin, Jianjun Sun and Jiang Li

Paper with code diffusion on GitHub: Disruption or consolidation?

Kun Tang, Baiyang Li and Xinyuan Zhang

GC-GTM: A generative-convergent extension of generative topographic mapping for discovering and interpreting technology opportunities

Hanjong Lee and Youngjung Geum

Auditable bibliometric analysis: a generic data pipeline for research evaluation

Abdelilah El Majjaoui, Anass El Haddadi, Abdelkhalek Bahri, Oumaima El Haddadi, Fadwa Bouhafer and Sara Ouald Chaib

From relocation to interdisciplinary diffusion: The impact of academic mobility on mentoring direction among mathematicians

Yunuo Wang, Yangpu Li, Yingjie Ma, Chenxia Meng, Ru Hou and Yong Zhao

Measuring the effect of structural differences between Web of Science and Scopus on research impact assessment

Sándor Soós, Anna Kiss and Zsófia Viktória Vida

Unpacking the predictive power of peer review under scientific disruption: Evidence from AI research

Yujie Zhang, Yan Jiang, Pengwei Yan, Zhuoren Jiang, Chenxi Lin, Guoxiu He and Xiaozhong Liu

Modeling the impact of research data unavailability on science

Jorge Chamorro-Padial, Francisco-Javier Rodrigo-Ginés, Rodrí­guez-Sánchez, Rosa, R.M. Gil and Roberto García

Unveiling thematic evolution and R&D opportunities through knowledge inheritance networks: A case study in telecommunications

Feifei Wang, Zhuoyuan Zhang, Xiao Lei, Rui Xue and Claude Baron

Identifying the policy foci via co-word networks in the frontier fields of GenAI and GeneEdit

Yunfan He, Xinxin Hou, Hongyu Pu, Fred Y. Ye and Star X. Zhao

Volume 20, issue 1, 2026

Assessing scientific output through self-evaluation: Evidence from four social science fields

Tolga Yuret

Weak ties in scientific cooperation contribute to scientific innovation

Yunhao You, Nian Liu and Qian Yu

WISDOM: An AI-powered framework for emerging research detection using weak signal analysis and advanced topic modelling

Ashkan Ebadi, Alain Auger and Yvan Gauthier

Published peer review reports have higher informative content than unpublished reports

Elena Álvarez-García, Daniel García-Costa, Flaminio Squazzoni, Mario Malički, Bahar Mehmani and Francisco Grimaldo

Universities as central actors in evidence-based policymaking in the US

Weiye Gu and Chaoqun Ni

Sex bias in peer review and citation practices: Implications for research evaluation

Giovanni Abramo and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

Tracking vibrant assignees in technological innovation: A patent-based dual perspective of activity and persistence

Dar-Zen Chen, You-Fu Lee, Huei-Ru Dong and Chun-Chieh Wang

Comments on the ideological and philosophical foundations of bibliometrics by Gorraiz, J

F. Pacheco-Torgal

A multi-dimensional indicator system for identifying highly innovative papers: a knowledge absorption, creation, and diffusion perspective

Wei Cheng, Xiaomin Zheng, Dejun Zheng, Ming Li and Tianshi Cong

The effect of gender diversity on scientific team impact: A team roles perspective

Yi Zhao, Yongjun Zhu, Donghun Kim, Yuzhuo Wang, Heng Zhang, Chao Lu and Chengzhi Zhang

Breaking barriers in academic communication: Insights from a novel face-to-face interaction tracking app at an international conference

Kiyotaka Yabe, Mamoru Takata and Kenji Matsuura

Does open access promote interdisciplinary knowledge flow? A Quasi-Natural experiment of journal transitions to fully OA in agronomy

Xianwen Wang, Pengfei Jia and Weixi Xie

λ-index: A new indicator based on generalized law in Information Production Processes

Hiran H. Lathabai

BiblioMerge: A Python-based automated tool to merge WoS and Scopus bibliographic data, compatible with Biblioshiny, BibExcel, VOSviewer, SciMAT and ScientoPy

David Diez-Junguitu and Miguel Á. Peña-Cerezo

How highly cited papers affect LIS journal impact factor? An empirical study

Xiaojuan Liu, Nannan Xiang and Mu-hsuan Huang

Cover effects on social attention: Evidence from Cell Biology, Multidisciplinary Chemistry, and Applied Physics

Yezhu Wang, Yundong Xie, Qing Ye, Lu Guo and Rongting Zhou

Design flaws in the Polish science quality evaluation system: A technical analysis of latent properties

Tomasz P. Pawlak

Tracing scientific knowledge flow in patents: An explainable machine learning study of citation types and their temporal dynamics

Yu Geng, Yixian Yin, Ruonan Cai and Xianwen Wang

Assessing data quality in citation analysis: A case study of web of science and Crossref

Guoyang Rong, Ying Chen, Thorsten Koch and Keisuke Honda

Author position ratio (APR): a simple complementary bibliometric descriptor of authorship patterns

Valentí Rull

Networks of knowledge: hiring and collaboration networks in economics and physics departments

Deok-Young Lee, Hyungsoo Woo and Jae-Suk Yang

Weak ties matter for scientific innovation: The dual perspectives of knowledge recombination network and collaboration network

Keye Wu, Rhodri Ivor Leng and Wanfang Hou

Estimating citation gaps by team size: Evidence from a cross-disciplinary analysis

Hwiyoung P. Lee, Chelsea Zhang, Manuel S. González Canché, Yoosun Park and Ram A. Cnaan

Corrigendum to “BiblioMerge: A Python-based automated tool to merge WoS and Scopus bibliographic data, compatible with Biblioshiny, BibExcel, VOSviewer, SciMAT and ScientoPy” [Journal of Informetrics, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2026, 1-21, 101770]

David Diez-Junguitu and Miguel Á. Peña-Cerezo