Journal of Informetrics

2007 - 2025

Current editor(s): Leo Egghe

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Volume 3, issue 4, 2009

h-Index: A review focused in its variants, computation and standardization for different scientific fields pp. 273-289

S. Alonso, F.J. Cabrerizo, E. Herrera-Viedma and F. Herrera

Mathematical derivation of the impact factor distribution pp. 290-295

L. Egghe

Modeling a century of citation distributions pp. 296-303

Matthew L. Wallace, Vincent Larivière and Yves Gingras

Research on the evaluation of academic journals based on structural equation modeling pp. 304-311

Yu Liping, Chen Yuqing, Pan Yuntao and Wu Yishan

Scholarly journal evaluation based on panel data analysis pp. 312-320

Liping Yu, Xiaoming Shen, Yuntao Pan and Yishan Wu

A scale-independent analysis of the performance of the Chinese innovation system pp. 321-331

Xia Gao and Jiancheng Guan

Critical thresholds for co-citation clusters and emergence of the giant component pp. 332-340

Henry Small

New seniority-independent Hirsch-type index pp. 341-347

Marek Kosmulski

Extent of type I and type II errors in editorial decisions: A case study on Angewandte Chemie International Edition pp. 348-352

Lutz Bornmann and Hans-Dieter Daniel

Macro-level indicators of the relations between research funding and research output pp. 353-362

Loet Leydesdorff and Caroline Wagner

Some comments on Egghe's derivation of the impact factor distribution pp. 363-366

Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck

Volume 3, issue 3, 2009

From the science of science to Scientometrics visualizing the history of science with HistCite software pp. 173-179

Eugene Garfield

Communities, knowledge creation, and information diffusion pp. 180-190

R. Lambiotte and P. Panzarasa

Towards an explanatory and computational theory of scientific discovery pp. 191-209

Chaomei Chen, Yue Chen, Mark Horowitz, Haiyan Hou, Zeyuan Liu and Donald Pellegrino

Scientific discovery and topological transitions in collaboration networks pp. 210-221

Luís M.A. Bettencourt, David I. Kaiser and Jasleen Kaur

Spatial scientometrics: Towards a cumulative research program pp. 222-232

Koen Frenken, Sjoerd Hardeman and Jarno Hoekman

Discrete and continuous conceptualizations of science: Implications for knowledge domain visualization pp. 233-245

André Skupin

Untangling the web of e-Research: Towards a sociology of online knowledge pp. 246-260

Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder

The dynamics of exchanges and references among scientific texts, and the autopoiesis of discursive knowledge pp. 261-271

Diana Lucio-Arias and Loet Leydesdorff

Volume 3, issue 2, 2009

Synthetic hybrid indicators based on scientific collaboration to quantify and evaluate individual research results pp. 91-101

Antonio Perianes-Rodríguez, Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Benjamín Vargas-Quesada, Carlos Olmeda Gómez and Félix Moya-Anegón

Automatic evaluation of digital libraries with 5SQual pp. 102-123

Bárbara L. Moreira, Marcos André Gonçalves, Alberto H.F. Laender and Edward A. Fox

The effects of open access on un-published documents: A case study of economics working papers pp. 124-133

Tove Faber Frandsen

Science indicators and science patterns in Europe pp. 134-142

J.A.S. Almeida, A.A.C.C. Pais and S.J. Formosinho

Sentiment analysis: A combined approach pp. 143-157

Rudy Prabowo and Mike Thelwall

Monotonicity and the Hirsch index pp. 158-160

Antonio Quesada

Volume 3, issue 1, 2009

Use of astronomical literature—A report on usage patterns pp. 1-8

Edwin A. Henneken, Michael J. Kurtz, Alberto Accomazzi, Carolyn S. Grant, Donna Thompson, Elizabeth Bohlen and Stephen S. Murray

Library Catalog Analysis as a tool in studies of social sciences and humanities: An exploratory study of published book titles in Economics pp. 9-26

Daniel Torres-Salinas and Henk F. Moed

Convergent validity of bibliometric Google Scholar data in the field of chemistry—Citation counts for papers that were accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition or rejected but published elsewhere, using Google Scholar, Science Citation Index, Scopus, and Chemical Abstracts pp. 27-35

Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx, Hermann Schier, Erhard Rahm, Andreas Thor and Hans-Dieter Daniel

Stabilisation operationalised: Using time series analysis to understand the dynamics of research collaboration pp. 36-48

Eleftheria Vasileiadou

Document–document similarity approaches and science mapping: Experimental comparison of five approaches pp. 49-63

Per Ahlgren and Cristian Colliander

Real and rational variants of the h-index and the g-index pp. 64-71

Raf Guns and Ronald Rousseau

A machine learning approach for Arabic text classification using N-gram frequency statistics pp. 72-77

Laila Khreisat

A GP-adaptive web ranking discovery framework based on combinative content and context features pp. 78-89

Amir Hosein Keyhanipour, Maryam Piroozmand and Kambiz Badie

Volume 2, issue 4, 2008

Generalizing the h- and g-indices pp. 263-271

Nees Jan van Eck and Ludo Waltman

Combining mapping and citation network analysis for a better understanding of the scientific development: The case of the absorptive capacity field pp. 272-279

Clara Calero-Medina and Ed C.M. Noyons

How to detect indications of potential sources of bias in peer review: A generalized latent variable modeling approach exemplified by a gender study pp. 280-287

Lutz Bornmann, Rüdiger Mutz and Hans-Dieter Daniel

The power law model and total career h-index sequences pp. 288-297

Fred Y. Ye and Ronald Rousseau

A symmetry axiom for scientific impact indices pp. 298-303

Gerhard J. Woeginger

Coverage and citation impact of oncological journals in the Web of Science and Scopus pp. 304-316

Carmen López-Illescas, Félix de Moya-Anegón and Henk F. Moed

International collaboration in science and the formation of a core group pp. 317-325

Loet Leydesdorff and Caroline Wagner

Ranking forestry journals using the h-index pp. 326-334

Jerome K. Vanclay

Woeginger's axiomatisation of the h-index and its relation to the g-index, the h(2)-index and the R2-index pp. 335-340

Ronald Rousseau

Biomedical innovation at the laboratory, clinical and commercial interface: A new method for mapping research projects, publications and patents in the field of microarrays pp. 341-353

Andrei Mogoutov, Alberto Cambrosio, Peter Keating and Philippe Mustar

Comparison of China/USA science and technology performance pp. 354-363

Ronald N. Kostoff

An axiomatic analysis of Egghe’s g-index pp. 364-368

Gerhard J. Woeginger

Some comments on the journal weighted impact factor proposed by Habibzadeh and Yadollahie pp. 369-372

Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck

Volume 2, issue 3, 2008

Measuring science–technology interaction using rare inventor–author names pp. 173-182

Kevin W. Boyack and Richard Klavans

Measuring scientific performance of public research units for strategic change pp. 183-194

Mario Coccia

On the relationship between the structural and socioacademic communities of a coauthorship network pp. 195-201

Marko A. Rodriguez and Alberto Pepe

Definitions of time series in citation analysis with special attention to the h-index pp. 202-210

Yuxian Liu and Ronald Rousseau

A modification of the h-index: The hm-index accounts for multi-authored manuscripts pp. 211-216

Michael Schreiber

Latent Markov modeling applied to grant peer review pp. 217-228

Lutz Bornmann, Rüdiger Mutz and Hans-Dieter Daniel

Comparing all-author and first-author co-citation analyses of information science pp. 229-239

Dangzhi Zhao and Andreas Strotmann

Object-relational data modelling for informetric databases pp. 240-251

Hairong Yu, Mari Davis, Concepción S. Wilson and Fletcher T.H. Cole

The influence of merging on h-type indices pp. 252-262

L. Egghe

Volume 2, issue 2, 2008

Finding and tracking subjects within an ongoing debate pp. 107-127

Rudy Prabowo and Mike Thelwall

The Reference Return Ratio pp. 128-135

Jeppe Nicolaisen and Tove Faber Frandsen

Examples of simple transformations of the h-index: Qualitative and quantitative conclusions and consequences for other indices pp. 136-148

L. Egghe

A rational, successive g-index applied to economics departments in Ireland pp. 149-155

Richard Tol

A general definition of the Leimkuhler curve pp. 156-163

José María Sarabia

Journal weighted impact factor: A proposal pp. 164-172

Farrokh Habibzadeh and Mahboobeh Yadollahie

Volume 2, issue 1, 2008

Informetrics at the beginning of the 21st century—A review pp. 1-52

Judit Bar-Ilan

All author cocitation analysis and first author cocitation analysis: A comparative empirical investigation pp. 53-64

Sean Eom

Global scientific production on GIS research by bibliometric analysis from 1997 to 2006 pp. 65-74

Yangge Tian, Cheng Wen and Song Hong

On the relation between the Maximum Entropy Principle and the principle of Least Effort: The continuous case pp. 75-88

Abdelatif Agouzal and Thierry Lafouge

On material transfer agreements and visibility of researchers in biotechnology pp. 89-100

Victor Rodriguez, Frizo Janssens, Koenraad Debackere and Bart De Moor

Some comments on “The estimation of lost multi-copy documents: A new type of informetrics theory” by Egghe and Proot pp. 101-105

Quentin L. Burrell