Journal of Informetrics

2007 - 2025

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Volume 7, issue 4, 2013

Accuracy of simple, initials-based methods for author name disambiguation pp. 767-773

Staša Milojević

The h-index: A case of the tail wagging the dog? pp. 774-783

Quentin L. Burrell

Harmonic coauthor credit: A parsimonious quantification of the byline hierarchy pp. 784-791

Nils T. Hagen

Scientific impact assessment cannot be fair pp. 792-802

Marek Gagolewski

Identifying excellent researchers: A new approach pp. 803-810

Richard Tol

Gender differences in research collaboration pp. 811-822

Giovanni Abramo, D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea and Gianluca Murgia

The Z-index: A geometric representation of productivity and impact which accounts for information in the entire rank-citation profile pp. 823-832

Alexander M. Petersen and Sauro Succi

A systematic empirical comparison of different approaches for normalizing citation impact indicators pp. 833-849

Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck

Attitudes about publishing and normal science advancement pp. 850-858

Christopher McCarty and James W. Jawitz

Which factors help authors produce the highest impact research? Collaboration, journal and document properties pp. 861-873

Fereshteh Didegah and Mike Thelwall

Research literature clustering using diffusion maps pp. 874-886

Paavo Nieminen, Ilkka Pölönen and Tuomo Sipola

Where are citations located in the body of scientific articles? A study of the distributions of citation locations pp. 887-896

Zhigang Hu, Chaomei Chen and Zeyuan Liu

Journal acceptance rates: A cross-disciplinary analysis of variability and relationships with journal measures pp. 897-906

Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Vincent Larivière, Chaoqun Ni and Blaise Cronin

A simulation study to investigate the accuracy of approximating averages of ratios using ratios of averages pp. 907-913

J.M. van Zyl

The publishing delay in scholarly peer-reviewed journals pp. 914-923

Bo-Christer Björk and David Solomon

Universality of scholarly impact metrics pp. 924-932

Jasleen Kaur, Filippo Radicchi and Filippo Menczer

Which percentile-based approach should be preferred for calculating normalized citation impact values? An empirical comparison of five approaches including a newly developed citation-rank approach (P100) pp. 933-944

Lutz Bornmann, Loet Leydesdorff and Jian Wang

The comparison of normalization procedures based on different classification systems pp. 945-958

Yunrong Li and Javier Ruiz-Castillo

The measurement of production efficiency in scientific journals through stochastic frontier analysis models: Application to quantitative economics journals pp. 959-965

Francisco J. Ortega and Jose M. Gavilan

Do more distant collaborations have more citation impact? pp. 966-971

Önder Nomaler, Koen Frenken and Gaston Heimeriks

Volume 7, issue 3, 2013

Alphabetization and the skewing of first authorship towards last names early in the alphabet pp. 575-582

Jonathan M. Levitt and Mike Thelwall

The distribution of references across texts: Some implications for citation analysis pp. 583-592

Ying Ding, Xiaozhong Liu, Chun Guo and Blaise Cronin

Impact maturity times and citation time windows: The 2-year maximum journal impact factor pp. 593-602

P. Dorta-González and M.I. Dorta-González

Two time series, their meaning and some applications pp. 603-610

Ronald Rousseau and Xiaojun Hu

The influences of counting methods on university rankings based on paper count and citation count pp. 611-621

Chi-Shiou Lin, Mu-Hsuan Huang and Dar-Zen Chen

Core–periphery structures in national higher education systems. A cross-country analysis using interlinking data pp. 622-634

Benedetto Lepori, Vitaliano Barberio, Marco Seeber and Isidro Aguillo

Counting publications and citations: Is more always better? pp. 635-641

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck and Paul Wouters

A longitudinal comparison of citation rates and growth among open access journals pp. 642-650

David J. Solomon, Mikael Laakso and Bo-Christer Björk

A layered framework to study collaboration as a form of knowledge sharing and diffusion pp. 651-664

Yuxian Liu, Ronald Rousseau and Raf Guns

Exploring scientists’ working timetable: A global survey pp. 665-675

Xianwen Wang, Lian Peng, Chunbo Zhang, Shenmeng Xu, Zhi Wang, Chuanli Wang and Xianbing Wang

A stochastic approach to the relation between the impact factor and the uncitedness factor pp. 676-682

Quentin L. Burrell

Research impact and scholars’ geographical diversity pp. 683-692

Alireza Abbasi and Ali Jaafari

Are you in h? pp. 693-698

Marek Kosmulski

Web traffic and organization performance measures: Relationships and data sources examined pp. 699-711

Liwen Vaughan and Rongbin Yang

Comparative rank assessment of journal articles pp. 712-717

Péter Vinkler

Socializing the h-index pp. 718-721

Graham Cormode, Qiang Ma, S. Muthukrishnan and Brian Thompson

The problem of citation impact assessments for recent publication years in institutional evaluations pp. 722-729

Lutz Bornmann

Measuring contextual partner importance in scientific collaboration networks pp. 730-736

Daniel Schall

Mathematical properties of Q-measures pp. 737-745

Ronald Rousseau, Yuxian Liu and Raf Guns

Quantitative evaluation of alternative field normalization procedures pp. 746-755

Yunrong Li, Filippo Radicchi, Claudio Castellano and Javier Ruiz-Castillo

Decomposing social and semantic networks in emerging “big data” research pp. 756-765

Han Woo Park and Loet Leydesdorff

Volume 7, issue 2, 2013

A bird's-eye view of scientific trading: Dependency relations among fields of science pp. 249-264

Erjia Yan, Ying Ding, Blaise Cronin and Loet Leydesdorff

Factors affecting citation rates in environmental science pp. 265-271

Jerome K. Vanclay

Some modifications to the SNIP journal impact indicator pp. 272-285

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck, Thed N. van Leeuwen and Martijn S. Visser

The validation of (advanced) bibliometric indicators through peer assessments: A comparative study using data from InCites and F1000 pp. 286-291

Lutz Bornmann and Loet Leydesdorff

The h-bubble pp. 294-300

Ronald Rousseau, Carlos García-Zorita and Elias Sanz-Casado

Low-cost evaluation techniques for information retrieval systems: A review pp. 301-312

Shiva Imani Moghadasi, Sri Devi Ravana and Sudharshan N. Raman

Family-tree of bibliometric indices pp. 313-317

Marek Kosmulski

A bibliometric analysis of academic publication and NIH funding pp. 318-324

Jiansheng Yang, Michael W. Vannier, Fang Wang, Yan Deng, Fengrong Ou, James Bennett, Yang Liu and Ge Wang

How relevant is the predictive power of the h-index? A case study of the time-dependent Hirsch index pp. 325-329

Michael Schreiber

Does “birds of a feather flock together” matter—Evidence from a longitudinal study on US–China scientific collaboration pp. 330-344

Li Tang

Archetypal scientists pp. 345-356

Christian Seiler and Klaus Wohlrabe

Correlation between Journal Impact Factor and Citation Performance: An experimental study pp. 357-370

Ugo Finardi

On time-varying collaboration networks pp. 371-378

Matheus P. Viana, Diego R. Amancio and Luciano da F. Costa

A case study of the arbitrariness of the h-index and the highly-cited-publications indicator pp. 379-387

Michael Schreiber

A mathematical characterization of the Hirsch-index by means of minimal increments pp. 388-393

L. Egghe

Institutional and country collaboration in an online service of scientific profiles: Google Scholar Citations pp. 394-403

José Luis Ortega and Isidro F. Aguillo

An index for evaluating journals in a small domestic citation index database whose citation rate is generally very low: A test based on the Korea Citation Index (KCI) database pp. 404-411

Young Man Ko and Ji Young Park

Mapping citation patterns of book chapters in the Book Citation Index pp. 412-424

Daniel Torres-Salinas, Rosa Rodríguez-Sánchez, Nicolás Robinson-García, J. Fdez-Valdivia and J.A. García

Collective dynamics in knowledge networks: Emerging trends analysis pp. 425-438

Xiang Liu, Tingting Jiang and Feicheng Ma

The collaboration behaviors of scientists in Italy: A field level analysis pp. 442-454

Giovanni Abramo, D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea and Gianluca Murgia

Cross-field evaluation of publications of research institutes using their contributions to the fields’ MVPs determined by h-index pp. 455-468

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

Quantifying the interdisciplinarity of scientific journals and fields pp. 469-477

F.N. Silva, F.A. Rodrigues, O.N. Oliveira and L. da F. Costa

Impact and structural features of meta-analytical studies, standard articles and reviews in psychology: Similarities and differences pp. 478-486

Maite Barrios, Georgina Guilera and Juana Gómez-Benito

Citation and impact factor distributions of scientific journals published in individual countries pp. 487-504

Keshra Sangwal

Efficiency analysis of forestry journals: Suggestions for improving journals’ quality pp. 505-521

Konstantinos Petridis, Chrysovalantis Malesios, Garyfallos Arabatzis and Emmanuel Thanassoulis

The Matthew effect for cohorts of economists pp. 522-527

Richard Tol

Individual research performance: A proposal for comparing apples to oranges pp. 528-539

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

Correlation between variables subject to an order restriction, with application to scientometric indices pp. 542-554

Miguel A. García-Pérez and Vicente Núñez-Antón

How to derive an advantage from the arbitrariness of the g-index pp. 555-561

Michael Schreiber

How to calculate the practical significance of citation impact differences? An empirical example from evaluative institutional bibliometrics using adjusted predictions and marginal effects pp. 562-574

Lutz Bornmann and Richard Williams

Volume 7, issue 1, 2013

An annual JCR impact factor calculation based on Bayesian credibility formulas pp. 1-9

Patricia Pérez-Hornero, José Pablo Arias-Nicolás, Antonio A. Pulgarín and Antonio Pulgarín

Axiomatizing the Hirsch index: Quantity and quality disjoined pp. 10-15

Adrian Miroiu

Communication network dynamics during organizational crisis pp. 16-35

Liaquat Hossain, Shahriar Tanvir Murshed and Shahadat Uddin

Comparison of different mathematical functions for the analysis of citation distribution of papers of individual authors pp. 36-49

Keshra Sangwal

Caveats for using statistical significance tests in research assessments pp. 50-62

Jesper W. Schneider

Investigating the universal distributions of normalized indicators and developing field-independent index pp. 63-71

Jiang Wu

Would it be possible to increase the Hirsch-index, π-index or CDS-index by increasing the number of publications or citations only by unity? pp. 72-83

Péter Vinkler

The proposal of a broadening of perspective in evaluative bibliometrics by complementing the times cited with a cited reference analysis pp. 84-88

Lutz Bornmann and Werner Marx

Normalized Similarity Index: An adjusted index to prioritize article citations pp. 91-98

Isar Nassiri, Ali Masoudi-Nejad, Mahdi Jalili and Ali Moeini

A scientometric look at calendar events pp. 101-108

Edoardo Magnone

An informetric model for the success-index pp. 109-116

Fiorenzo Franceschini, Maurizio Galetto, Domenico Maisano and Luca Mastrogiacomo

Mining diversity subgraph in multidisciplinary scientific collaboration networks: A meso perspective pp. 117-128

Bing He, Ying Ding, Jie Tang, Vignesh Reguramalingam and Johan Bollen

A probe into dynamic measures for h-core and h-tail pp. 129-137

Dar-zen Chen, Mu-hsuan Huang and Fred Y. Ye

First in, best dressed: The presence of order-effect bias in journal ranking surveys pp. 138-144

Alexander Serenko and Nick Bontis

HTTP 404-page (not) found: Recovery of decayed URL citations pp. 145-157

B.T. Sampath Kumar and D. Vinay Kumar

The use of percentiles and percentile rank classes in the analysis of bibliometric data: Opportunities and limits pp. 158-165

Lutz Bornmann, Loet Leydesdorff and Rüdiger Mutz

The impact of unproductive and top researchers on overall university research performance pp. 166-175

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

On the time dependence of the h-index pp. 176-182

Riccardo Mannella and Paolo Rossi

The functional relation between the impact factor and the uncitedness factor revisited pp. 183-189

L. Egghe

Ratios of h-cores, h-tails and uncited sources in sets of scientific papers and technical patents pp. 190-197

Joan Q. Liu, Ronald Rousseau, Mona S. Wang and Fred Y. Ye

The importance of accounting for the number of co-authors and their order when assessing research performance at the individual level in the life sciences pp. 198-208

Giovanni Abramo, D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea and Francesco Rosati

Independent research of China in Science Citation Index Expanded during 1980–2011 pp. 210-222

Hui-Zhen Fu and Yuh-Shan Ho

C-index: A weighted network node centrality measure for collaboration competence pp. 223-239

Xiangbin Yan, Li Zhai and Weiguo Fan

Scientometrics reveals funding priorities in medical research policy pp. 240-247

Dieter Vanderelst and Niko Speybroeck