Journal of Informetrics

2007 - 2025

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Volume 8, issue 4, 2014

CitNetExplorer: A new software tool for analyzing and visualizing citation networks pp. 802-823

Nees Jan van Eck and Ludo Waltman

Distributions for cited articles from individual subjects and years pp. 824-839

Mike Thelwall and Paul Wilson

A comparison of journal similarity across six disciplines using citing discipline analysis pp. 840-853

Dietmar Wolfram and Yuehua Zhao

International Collaboration Activity Index: Case study of dye-sensitized solar cells pp. 854-862

Xuefeng Wang, Meng Huang, Hongyuan Wang, Ming Lei, Donghua Zhu, Jie Ren and Munazza Jabeen

On the citation lifecycle of papers with delayed recognition pp. 863-872

Christian Lachance and Vincent Larivière

How to improve the outcome of performance evaluations in terms of percentiles for citation frequencies of my papers pp. 873-879

Michael Schreiber

The Matthew effect in economics reconsidered pp. 880-889

Daniel Birkmaier and Klaus Wohlrabe

Do altmetrics point to the broader impact of research? An overview of benefits and disadvantages of altmetrics pp. 895-903

Lutz Bornmann

How robust are journal rankings based on the impact factor? Evidence from the economic sciences pp. 904-911

Christian Seiler and Klaus Wohlrabe

Chinese-language articles are not biased in citations: Evidences from Chinese-English bilingual journals in Scopus and Web of Science pp. 912-916

Jiang Li, Lili Qiao, Wenyuze Li and Yidan Jin

The skewness of scientific productivity pp. 917-934

Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Rodrigo Costas

Validity of altmetrics data for measuring societal impact: A study using data from Altmetric and F1000Prime pp. 935-950

Lutz Bornmann

Bibliometric profile of top-cited single-author articles in the Science Citation Index Expanded pp. 951-962

Kun-Yang Chuang and Yuh-Shan Ho

Regression for citation data: An evaluation of different methods pp. 963-971

Mike Thelwall and Paul Wilson

Distributions of citations of papers of individual authors publishing in different scientific disciplines: Application of Langmuir-type function pp. 972-984

Keshra Sangwal

The correlation between citation-based and expert-based assessments of publication channels: SNIP and SJR vs. Norwegian quality assessments pp. 985-996

Per Ahlgren and Ludo Waltman

Is the new citation-rank approach P100′ in bibliometrics really new? pp. 997-1004

Michael Schreiber

Volume 8, issue 3, 2014

An axiomatic approach to bibliometric rankings and indices pp. 449-477

Denis Bouyssou and Thierry Marchant

Empirical study of L-Sequence: The basic h-index sequence for cumulative publications with consideration of the yearly citation performance pp. 478-485

Yu Liu and Yongliang Yang

An addendum and correction to “Mathematical properties of Q-measures” (vol. 7, issue 3, pp. 737–745) pp. 486-490

Ronald Rousseau, Yuxian Liu and Raf Guns

A study of the “heartbeat spectra” for “sleeping beauties” pp. 493-502

Jiang Li, Dongbo Shi, Star X. Zhao and Fred Y. Ye

On standardization of the Activity Index pp. 503-507

Janez Stare and Nataša Kejžar

Sub-field normalization of the IEEE scientific journals based on their connection with Technical Societies pp. 508-533

Fiorenzo Franceschini and Domenico Maisano

Analysis of the distribution of cited journals according to their positions in the h-core of citing journal listed in Journal Citation Reports pp. 534-545

Juan Miguel Campanario

Contents and time sensitive document ranking of scientific literature pp. 546-561

Han Xu, Eric Martin and Ashesh Mahidadia

How far does scientific community look back? pp. 562-568

Xianwen Wang, Zhi Wang, Wenli Mao and Chen Liu

Including cited non-source items in a large-scale map of science: What difference does it make? pp. 569-580

Kevin W. Boyack and Richard Klavans

What is the effect of country-specific characteristics on the research performance of scientific institutions? Using multi-level statistical models to rank and map universities and research-focused institutions worldwide pp. 581-593

Lutz Bornmann, Moritz Stefaner, Felix de Moya Anegón and Rüdiger Mutz

Knowledge diffusion path analysis of data quality literature: A main path analysis pp. 594-605

Yu Xiao, Louis Y.Y. Lu, John S. Liu and Zhili Zhou

The European Union, China, and the United States in the top-1% and top-10% layers of most-frequently cited publications: Competition and collaborations pp. 606-617

Loet Leydesdorff, Caroline Wagner and Lutz Bornmann

Reversing the byline hierarchy: The effect of equalizing bias on the accreditation of primary, secondary and senior authors pp. 618-627

Nils T. Hagen

A study on directional returns to scale pp. 628-641

Guo-liang Yang, Ronald Rousseau, Li-ying Yang and Wen-bin Liu

Visualization of ranking data: Geographical signatures in international collaboration, leadership and research impact pp. 642-649

Edmilson J.T. Manganote, Mariana S. Araujo and Peter A. Schulz

Generalized preferential attachment considering aging pp. 650-658

Yan Wu, Tom Z.J. Fu and Dah Ming Chiu

Investigations on the step-based research indices of Chambers and Miller pp. 659-666

Gerhard J. Woeginger

A regression analysis of researchers’ social network metrics on their citation performance in a college of engineering pp. 667-682

Oguz Cimenler, Kingsley A. Reeves and John Skvoretz

PageRank variants in the evaluation of citation networks pp. 683-692

Michal Nykl, Karel Ježek, Dalibor Fiala and Martin Dostal

The role of handbooks in knowledge creation and diffusion: A case of science and technology studies pp. 693-709

Staša Milojević, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Vincent Larivière, Mike Thelwall and Ying Ding

A quantitative measure to compare the disciplinary profiles of research systems and their evolution over time pp. 710-727

Irene Bongioanni, Cinzia Daraio and Giancarlo Ruocco

Influence of co-authorship networks in the research impact: Ego network analyses from Microsoft Academic Search pp. 728-737

José Luis Ortega

Examples for counterintuitive behavior of the new citation-rank indicator P100 for bibliometric evaluations pp. 738-748

Michael Schreiber

Scientific journal publishers and omitted citations in bibliometric databases: Any relationship? pp. 751-765

Fiorenzo Franceschini, Domenico Maisano and Luca Mastrogiacomo

Assessing national strengths and weaknesses in research fields pp. 766-775

Giovanni Abramo and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

Time gap analysis by the topic model-based temporal technique pp. 776-790

Do-Heon Jeong and Min Song

A network-based and multi-parameter model for finding influential authors pp. 791-799

Yongli Li, Chong Wu, Xiaoyu Wang and Peng Luo

Volume 8, issue 2, 2014

Predicting and recommending collaborations: An author-, institution-, and country-level analysis pp. 295-309

Erjia Yan and Raf Guns

Counting and comparing publication output with and without equalizing and inflationary bias pp. 310-317

Nils T. Hagen

Citation impact analysis of top ranked computer science journals and their rankings pp. 318-328

Chih-Fong Tsai

Unpacking the Matthew effect in citations pp. 329-339

Jian Wang

The use of the Percentage Rank Position index for comparative evaluation of journals pp. 340-348

Péter Vinkler

Relationship between educational indicators and research outcomes in a panel of top twenty nations: Windows of opportunity pp. 349-361

Ghulam Akhmat, Khalid Zaman, Tan Shukui, Yasir Javed and Muhammad Mushtaq Khan

Empirical modeling of the impact factor distribution pp. 362-368

Michał Brzeziński

Optimizing SCImago Journal & Country Rank classification by community detection pp. 369-383

Antonio J. Gómez-Núñez, Vladimir Batagelj, Benjamín Vargas-Quesada, Félix Moya-Anegón and Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez

Impact coverage of the success-index pp. 384-389

L. Egghe

How good is a model based on bibliometric indicators in predicting the final decisions made by peers? pp. 390-405

Elizabeth S. Vieira, José A.S. Cabral and José A.N.F. Gomes

Journal topic citation potential and between-field comparisons: The topic normalized impact factor pp. 406-418

Pablo Dorta-González, María Isabel Dorta-González, Dolores Rosa Santos-Peñate and Rafael Suárez-Vega

On the use of sampling statistics to advance bibliometrics pp. 419-420

Jasleen Kaur, Filippo Radicchi and Filippo Menczer

Do Article Influence scores overestimate the citation impact of social science journals in subfields that are related to higher-impact natural science disciplines? pp. 421-430

William H. Walters

Mapping altruism pp. 431-447

Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack

Volume 8, issue 1, 2014

Classification of individual articles from all of science by research level pp. 1-12

Kevin W. Boyack, Michael Patek, Lyle H. Ungar, Patrick Yoon and Richard Klavans

On the time evolution of received citations, in different scientific fields: An empirical study pp. 13-24

Ugo Finardi

The competitive advantage of nations: An application to academia pp. 29-42

Anne-Wil Harzing and Axèle Giroud

Conceptualizing the interdisciplinary diffusion and evolution of emerging fields: The case of systems biology pp. 43-58

Alyssa W. Goldman

Understanding the assembly of interdisciplinary teams and its impact on performance pp. 59-70

Alina Lungeanu, Yun Huang and Noshir S. Contractor

Equal weights coauthorship sharing and the Shapley value are equivalent pp. 71-76

Alexander Karpov

Measuring journal performance for multidisciplinary research: An efficiency perspective pp. 77-88

Hakyeon Lee and Juneseuk Shin

Are the authors of highly cited articles also the most productive ones? pp. 89-97

Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

Research dynamics: Measuring the continuity and popularity of research topics pp. 98-110

Erjia Yan

Forecasting research trends using population dynamics model with Burgers’ type interaction pp. 111-122

Matylda Jabłońska-Sabuka, Robert Sitarz and Andrzej Kraslawski

Classification method for detecting coercive self-citation in journals pp. 123-135

Tian Yu, Guang Yu and Ming-Yang Wang

Regularity in the time-dependent distribution of the percentage of never-cited papers: An empirical pilot study based on the six journals pp. 136-146

Zewen Hu and Yishan Wu

A comparative study of cross-domain research output and citations: Research impact cubes and binary citation frequencies pp. 147-161

Tomo Cerovšek and Matjaž Mikoš

Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy applied to iMetrics: Scientometrics, Journal of Informetrics, and a relevant subset of JASIST pp. 162-174

Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx and Staša Milojević

How to improve the prediction based on citation impact percentiles for years shortly after the publication date? pp. 175-180

Lutz Bornmann, Loet Leydesdorff and Jian Wang

Estimating the accuracies of journal impact factor through bootstrap pp. 181-196

Kuan-Ming Chen, Tsung-Hau Jen and Margaret Wu

Content-based author co-citation analysis pp. 197-211

Yoo Kyung Jeong, Min Song and Ying Ding

A refinement of Egghe's increment studies pp. 212-216

Ronald Rousseau

Visual topical analysis of Chinese and American Library and Information Science research institutions pp. 217-233

Lu An, Chuanming Yu and Gang Li

Barycenter representation of book publishing internationalization in the Social Sciences and Humanities pp. 234-240

Frederik T. Verleysen and Tim C.E. Engels

Technological impact factor: An indicator to measure the impact of academic publications on practical innovation pp. 241-251

Mu-Hsuan Huang, Wei-Tzu Huang and Dar-Zen Chen

An alternative axiomatization of the Hirsch index pp. 252-258

Takumi Kongo

Analysing knowledge capture mechanisms: Methods and a stylised bioventure case pp. 259-272

Thomas Gurney, Edwin Horlings, Peter van den Besselaar, Koichi Sumikura, Antoine Schoen, Patricia Laurens and Daniel Pardo

No citation advantage for monograph-based collaborations? pp. 276-283

Mike Thelwall and Pardeep Sud

Efficiency, unused capacity and transmission power as indicators of the Triple Helix of university–industry–government relationships pp. 284-294

Eustache Mêgnigbêto