Journal of Informetrics

2007 - 2025

Current editor(s): Leo Egghe

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Volume 6, issue 4, 2012

The trend of concentration in scientific research and technological innovation: A reduction of the predominant role of the U.S. in world research & technology pp. 457-468

Mu-Hsuan Huang, Han-Wen Chang and Dar-Zen Chen

Revisiting the scaling of citations for research assessment pp. 470-479

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

Jazz discometrics – A network approach pp. 480-484

András Schubert

Exploring the nonlinear effects of patent H index, patent citations, and essential technological strength on corporate performance by using artificial neural network pp. 485-495

Sifei Zhang, Chien-Chung Yuan, Ke-Chiun Chang and Yun Ken

Total influence and mainstream measures for scientific researchers pp. 496-504

John S. Liu, Louis Y.Y. Lu and Mei Ho

Stata commands for importing bibliometric data and processing author address information pp. 505-512

Lutz Bornmann and Adam Ozimek

An international comparison of journal publishing and citing behaviours pp. 516-531

Fereshteh Didegah, Mike Thelwall and Ali Gazni

Author bibliographic coupling analysis: A test based on a Chinese academic database pp. 532-542

Ruimin Ma

Sub-field normalization in the multiplicative case: Average-based citation indicators pp. 543-556

Neus Herranz and Javier Ruiz-Castillo

Modifying h-index by allocating credit of multi-authored papers whose author names rank based on contribution pp. 557-565

Xuan Zhen Liu and Hui Fang

Aggregating different paper quality measures with a generalized h-index pp. 566-579

Marek Gagolewski and Radko Mesiar

Selection committee membership: Service or self-service pp. 580-585

Peter van den Besselaar

Development a case-based classifier for predicting highly cited papers pp. 586-599

Mingyang Wang, Guang Yu, Jianzhong Xu, Huixin He, Daren Yu and Shuang An

Estimating the diffusion models of crisis information in micro blog pp. 600-610

Jiuchang Wei, Bing Bu and Liang Liang

Nemo iudex in causa sua? pp. 611-614

Marek Kosmulski

Why Sirtes's claims (Sirtes, 2012) do not square with reality pp. 615-618

Filippo Radicchi and Claudio Castellano

Exploring the directed h-degree in directed weighted networks pp. 619-630

Star X. Zhao and Fred Y. Ye

The citation-based indicator and combined impact indicator—New options for measuring impact pp. 631-638

Ping Zhou and Yongfeng Zhong

The order in the lists of authors in multi-author papers revisited pp. 639-644

Marek Kosmulski

How important is choice of the scaling factor in standardizing citations? pp. 645-654

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

Exploring scientists’ working timetable: Do scientists often work overtime? pp. 655-660

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

“Everything is plentiful—Except attention”. Attention data of scientific journals on social web tools pp. 661-668

Terttu Kortelainen and Mari Katvala

Further clarifications about the success-index pp. 669-673

Fiorenzo Franceschini, Maurizio Galetto, Domenico Maisano and Luca Mastrogiacomo

A further step forward in measuring journals’ scientific prestige: The SJR2 indicator pp. 674-688

Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote and Félix Moya-Anegón

An extension of the h index that covers the tail and the top of the citation curve and allows ranking researchers with similar h pp. 689-699

Miguel A. García-Pérez

An empirical analysis of the use of alphabetical authorship in scientific publishing pp. 700-711

Ludo Waltman

Comparison of the citation distribution and h-index between groups of different sizes pp. 712-720

Maja Pohar Perme, Janez Stare, Rok Žaucer and Matjaž Žaucer

Statistical inference on the h-index with an application to top-scientist performance pp. 721-728

A. Baccini, L. Barabesi, M. Marcheselli and L. Pratelli

Volume 6, issue 3, 2012

Exploratory factor analysis for the Hirsch index, 17 h-type variants, and some traditional bibliometric indicators pp. 347-358

M. Schreiber, Chrysovalantis Malesios and S. Psarakis

Mining patterns of author orders in scientific publications pp. 359-367

Bing He, Ying Ding and Erjia Yan

Time-aware PageRank for bibliographic networks pp. 370-388

Dalibor Fiala

Ranking economists on the basis of many indicators: An alternative approach using RePEc data pp. 389-402

Christian Seiler and Klaus Wohlrabe

Betweenness centrality as a driver of preferential attachment in the evolution of research collaboration networks pp. 403-412

Alireza Abbasi, Liaquat Hossain and Loet Leydesdorff

Reflections on the activity index and related indicators pp. 413-421

Ronald Rousseau and Liying Yang

Five years “Journal of Informetrics” pp. 422-426

L. Egghe

Three-feature model to reproduce the topology of citation networks and the effects from authors’ visibility on their h-index pp. 427-434

Diego Raphael Amancio, Osvaldo Novais Oliveira and Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Factors affecting web links between European higher education institutions pp. 435-447

Marco Seeber, Benedetto Lepori, Alessandro Lomi, Isidro Aguillo and Vitaliano Barberio

Calibration against a reference set: A quantitative approach to assessment of the methods of assessment of scientific output pp. 451-456

Marek Kosmulski

Volume 6, issue 2, 2012

The dispersion of research performance within and between universities as a potential indicator of the competitive intensity in higher education systems pp. 155-168

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

Skewed citation distributions and bias factors: Solutions to two core problems with the journal impact factor pp. 169-176

Rüdiger Mutz and Hans-Dieter Daniel

A preliminary investigation on diffusion through a layered system pp. 177-191

Ronald Rousseau, Yuxian Liu and Fred Y. Ye

A sensitivity analysis of researchers’ productivity rankings to the time of citation observation pp. 192-201

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

Framing the structure of global open innovation research pp. 202-216

Hsin-Ning Su and Pei-Chun Lee

The myth of global science collaboration—Collaboration patterns in epistemic communities pp. 217-225

Stefan Hennemann, Diego Rybski and Ingo Liefner

Globalization of collaborative creativity through cross-border patent activities pp. 226-236

Mu-Hsuan Huang, Huei-Ru Dong and Dar-Zen Chen

Adding community and dynamic to topic models pp. 237-253

Daifeng Li, Ying Ding, Xin Shuai, Johan Bollen, Jie Tang, Shanshan Chen, Jiayi Zhu and Guilherme Rocha

The case of scientometricians with the “absolute relative” impact indicator pp. 254-264

Péter Vinkler

Saint Matthew strikes again: An agent-based model of peer review and the scientific community structure pp. 265-275

Flaminio Squazzoni and Claudio Gandelli

Consensus formation in science modeled by aggregated bibliographic coupling pp. 276-284

Jeppe Nicolaisen and Tove Faber Frandsen

HistCite analysis of papers constituting the h index research front pp. 285-288

Lutz Bornmann and Werner Marx

An analysis for estimating the short-term effects of Japan's triple disaster on progress in materials science pp. 289-297

Edoardo Magnone

A sensitivity analysis of research institutions’ productivity rankings to the time of citation observation pp. 298-306

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

Averages of ratios compared to ratios of averages: Mathematical results pp. 307-317

L. Egghe

Interactive overlays: A new method for generating global journal maps from Web-of-Science data pp. 318-332

Loet Leydesdorff and Ismael Rafols

Which are the best performing regions in information science in terms of highly cited papers? Some improvements of our previous mapping approaches pp. 336-345

Lutz Bornmann and Loet Leydesdorff

Volume 6, issue 1, 2012

Partition-based Field Normalization: An approach to highly specialized publication records pp. 1-10

Nadine Rons

What factors determine citation counts of publications in chemistry besides their quality? pp. 11-18

Lutz Bornmann, Hermann Schier, Werner Marx and Hans-Dieter Daniel

Publication patterns of award-winning forest scientists and implications for the Australian ERA journal ranking pp. 19-26

Jerome K. Vanclay

Quantifying the degree of research collaboration: A comparative study of collaborative measures pp. 27-33

Chien Hsiang Liao and Hsiuju Rebecca Yen

Ranking national research systems by citation indicators. A comparative analysis using whole and fractionalised counting methods pp. 36-43

Dag W. Aksnes, Jesper W. Schneider and Magnus Gunnarsson

Webometric research with the Bing Search API 2.0 pp. 44-52

Mike Thelwall and Pardeep Sud

The sustainability of functionality development of science and technology: Papers and patents of emerging economies pp. 55-65

Chan-Yuan Wong and Kim-Leng Goh

Modeling the probabilistic distribution of the impact factor pp. 66-79

José María Sarabia, Faustino Prieto and Carmen Trueba

The stochastic h-index pp. 80-87

Gopalan M. Nair and Berwin A. Turlach

Proceeding papers in journals versus the “regular” journal publications pp. 88-96

Lin Zhang and Wolfgang Glänzel

Network analysis of temporal trends in scholarly research productivity pp. 97-110

Hyoungshick Kim, Ji Won Yoon and Jon Crowcroft

Assessing impact and quality from local dynamics of citation networks pp. 111-120

Camille Roth, Jiang Wu and Sergi Lozano

Testing the fairness of citation indicators for comparison across scientific domains: The case of fractional citation counts pp. 121-130

Filippo Radicchi and Claudio Castellano

The relationships between the patent performance and corporation performance pp. 131-139

Ke-Chiun Chang, Dar-Zen Chen and Mu-Hsuan Huang

Topics in dynamic research communities: An exploratory study for the field of information retrieval pp. 140-153

Erjia Yan, Ying Ding, Staša Milojević and Cassidy R. Sugimoto