Journal of Informetrics

2007 - 2025

Current editor(s): Leo Egghe

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Volume 16, issue 4, 2022

On some properties of medians, percentiles, baselines, and thresholds in empirical bibliometric analysis

Vladimir Pislyakov

Measuring engagement on twitter using a composite index: An application to social media influencers

María M. Muñoz, María-Mercedes Rojas-de-Gracia and Carlos Navas-Sarasola

Ungendered writing: Writing styles are unlikely to account for gender differences in funding rates in the natural and technical sciences

Serge P.J.M. Horbach, Jesper W. Schneider and Maxime Sainte-Marie

Predicting the clinical citation count of biomedical papers using multilayer perceptron neural network

Xin Li, Xuli Tang and Qikai Cheng

Team formation and team impact: The balance between team freshness and repeat collaboration

Meijun Liu, Ajay Jaiswal, Yi Bu, Chao Min, Sijie Yang, Zhibo Liu, Daniel Acuña and Ying Ding

Towards efficient navigation in digital libraries: Leveraging popularity, semantics and communities to recommend scholarly articles

Pratyush Yadav and Nargis Pervin

Citation bias in measuring knowledge flow: Evidence from the web of science at the discipline level

Haihua Lyu, Yi Bu, Zhenyue Zhao, Jiarong Zhang and Jiang Li

The recognition of kernel research team

Guoshuai Ma, Qian Yuhua, Yayu Zhang, Hongren Yan, Honghong Cheng and Zhiguo Hu

Relations among the h-, g-, ψ-, and p-index and offset-ability

Shelia X. Wei, Tong Tong, Ronald Rousseau, Wanru Wang and Fred Y. Ye

Accidentality in journal citation patterns

Maciej J. Mrowinski, Marek Gagolewski and Grzegorz Siudem

Exploring the “awakening effect” in knowledge diffusion: a case study of publications in the library and information science domain

Yuxue Chi, Xianyi Tang and Yijun Liu

MatrixSim: A new method for detecting the evolution paths of research topics

Xiaoguang Wang, Jing He, Han Huang and Hongyu Wang

Detecting emerging technologies and their evolution using deep learning and weak signal analysis

Ashkan Ebadi, Alain Auger and Yvan Gauthier

A directed collaboration network for exploring the order of scientific collaboration

Li Zhai and Xiangbin Yan

Collaborative Team Recognition: A Core Plus Extension Structure

Shuo Yu, Fayez Alqahtani, Amr Tolba, Ivan Lee, Tao Jia and Feng Xia

Exploring country's preference over news mentions to academic papers

Houqiang Yu, Longfei Li, Xueting Cao and Tao Chen

Do international nonstop flights foster influential research? Evidence from Sino-US scientific collaboration

Guangyuan Hu, Rong Ni and Li Tang

Predicting the citation count and CiteScore of journals one year in advance

William L. Croft and Jörg-Rüdiger Sack

Does the author’s collaboration mode lead to papers’ different citation impacts? An empirical analysis based on propensity score matching

Lingxu Fan, Lei Guo, Xinhua Wang, Liancheng Xu and Fangai Liu

Rethinking the effect of inter-gender collaboration on research performance for scholars

Hongquan Shen, Ying Cheng, Xiufang Ju and Juan Xie

Volume 16, issue 3, 2022

Rank-frequency data and impact in a continuous model: Introducing impact bundles

Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau

Exploring perception of retraction based on mentioned status in post-retraction citations

Xiaojuan Liu, Chenlin Wang, Dar-Zen Chen and Mu-Hsuan Huang

Capability of non-English-speaking countries for securing a foothold in international journal publishing

Yu-Wei Chang

A new method for measuring the originality of academic articles based on knowledge units in semantic networks

Jianhua Hou, Dongyi Wang and Jing Li

Power Laws in altmetrics: An empirical analysis

Sumit Kumar Banshal, Solanki Gupta, Hiran H Lathabai and Vivek Kumar Singh

Extracting the interdisciplinary specialty structures in social media data-based research: A clustering-based network approach

Yangliu Fan, Sune Lehmann and Anders Blok

Movers’ advantages: The effect of mobility on scientists’ productivity and collaboration

Meijun Liu and Xiao Hu

A deep learning based method benefiting from characteristics of patents for semantic relation classification

Liang Chen, Shuo Xu, Lijun Zhu, Jing Zhang, Guancan Yang and Haiyun Xu

How public investment fuels innovation: Clues from government-subsidized USPTO patents

Lin Zhang, Mengting Sun, Yujie Peng, Wenjing Zhao, Lixin Chen and Ying Huang

Exploring the influence of coauthorship with top scientists on researchers’ affiliation, research topic, productivity, and impact

Qing Xie, Xinyuan Zhang, Giyeong Kim and Min Song

Is there a need for a new journal metric? Correlations between JCR Impact Factor metrics and the Journal Citation Indicator—JCI

Daniel Torres-Salinas, Pilar Valderrama-Baca and Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado

Measuring the effect of reviewers on manuscript change: A study on a sample of submissions to Royal Society journals (2006–2017)

Federico Bianchi, Daniel García-Costa, Francisco Grimaldo and Flaminio Squazzoni

Towards more convergent main paths: A relevance-based approach

Chen-Hao Huang, John S. Liu, Mei Hsiu-Ching Ho and Tzu-Chuan Chou

Non-linearity between referencing behavior and citation impact: A large-scale, discipline-level analysis

Jialin Liu, Hongkan Chen, Zhibo Liu, Yi Bu and Weiye Gu

Uncovering patterns in the supervision of Spanish theses: a comprehensive analysis

V. Duarte-Martínez, M.J. Cobo and A.G. López-Herrera

DAC: Descendant-aware clustering algorithm for network-based topic emergence prediction

Sukhwan Jung and Aviv Segev

Bibliographic coupling networks reveal the advantage of diversification in scientific projects

Heyang Li, Meijun Wu, Yougui Wang and An Zeng

Volume 16, issue 2, 2022

Empirical analysis of recent temporal dynamics of research fields: Annual publications in chemistry and related areas as an example

Lutz Bornmann and Robin Haunschild

Developing a topic-driven method for interdisciplinarity analysis

Hyeyoung Kim, Hyelin Park and Min Song

A study of referencing changes in preprint-publication pairs across multiple fields

Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Dimity Stephen and Flaminio Squazzoni

Which distance dimensions matter in international research collaboration? A cross-country analysis by scientific domain

Elizabeth S. Vieira, Jorge Cerdeira and Aurora A.C. Teixeira

On predicting research grants productivity via machine learning

Jorge A.V. Tohalino and Diego R. Amancio

Scientific performance across research disciplines: Trends and differences in the case of Slovenia

Katarina Rojko and Borut Lužar

Distinguishing transformative from incremental clinical evidence: A classifier of clinical research using textual features from abstracts and citing sentences

Xuanyu Shi and Jian Du

Potential of patent image data as technology intelligence source

Jeonghun Jee, Sanghyun Park and Sungjoo Lee

Understanding the peer review endeavor in scientific publishing

Guangyao Zhang, Shenmeng Xu, Yao Sun, Chunlin Jiang and Xianwen Wang

Integrative model for discovering linked topics in science and technology

Haiyun Xu, Zenghui Yue, Hongshen Pang, Ehsan Elahi, Jing Li and Lu Wang

Modelling informetric data using quantile functions

N. Unnikrishnan Nair and B. Vineshkumar

Validating citation models by proxy indices

Anna Cena, Marek Gagolewski, Grzegorz Siudem and Barbara Żogała-Siudem

Gender-specific patterns in the artificial intelligence scientific ecosystem

Anahita Hajibabaei, Andrea Schiffauerova and Ashkan Ebadi

The many facets of academic mobility and its impact on scholars' career

Fakhri Momeni, Fariba Karimi, Philipp Mayr, Isabella Peters and Stefan Dietze

A semantic main path analysis method to identify multiple developmental trajectories

Liang Chen, Shuo Xu, Lijun Zhu, Jing Zhang, Haiyun Xu and Guancan Yang

Combination of research questions and methods: A new measurement of scientific novelty

Zhuoran Luo, Wei Lu, Jiangen He and Yuqi Wang

Poincare: Recommending Publication Venues via Treatment Effect Estimation

Ryoma Sato, Makoto Yamada and Hisashi Kashima

Is it all bafflegab? – Linguistic and meta characteristics of research articles in prestigious economics journals

Julian Amon and Kurt Hornik

Investigating the mentorship effect on the academic success of young scientists: An empirical study of the 985 project universities of China

Jing Shang, Mingbin Zeng and Gupeng Zhang

Measuring knowledge exploration distance at the patent level: Application of network embedding and citation analysis

Jaewoong Choi and Janghyeok Yoon

The Academic Inbreeding Controversy: Analysis and Evidence from Brazil

Denis Borenstein, Marcelo S. Perlin and Takeyoshi Imasato

Quantifying the online long-term interest in research

Murtuza Shahzad, Hamed Alhoori, Reva Freedman and Shaikh Abdul Rahman

What makes or breaks competitive research proposals? A mixed-methods analysis of research grant evaluation reports

Darko Hren, David G. Pina, Christopher R. Norman and Ana Marušić

Metrics and mechanisms: Measuring the unmeasurable in the science of science

Lingfei Wu, Aniket Kittur, Hyejin Youn, Staša Milojević, Erin Leahey, Stephen M. Fiore and Yong-Yeol Ahn

Generalization of bibliographic coupling and co-citation using the node split network

Jinhyuk Yun

How does academic education background affect top researchers’ performance? Evidence from the field of artificial intelligence

Jiang Wu, Guiyan Ou, Xiaohui Liu and Ke Dong

Cover effects on citations uncovered: Evidence from Nature

Pietro Battiston, Pier Luigi Sacco and Luca Stanca

Disturbance of questionable publishing to academia

Taekho You, Jinseo Park, June Young Lee, Jinhyuk Yun and Woo-Sung Jung

Further divided gender gaps in research productivity and collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from coronavirus-related literature

Meijun Liu, Ning Zhang, Xiao Hu, Ajay Jaiswal, Jian Xu, Hong Chen, Ying Ding and Yi Bu

Volume 16, issue 1, 2022

How do scholars and non-scholars participate in dataset dissemination on Twitter

Jianhua Hou, Yuanyuan Wang, Yang Zhang and Dongyi Wang

Robustness, replicability and scalability in topic modelling

Omar Ballester and Orion Penner

The effect of citation behaviour on knowledge diffusion and intellectual structure

Jinqing Yang and Zhifeng Liu

Similarity network fusion for scholarly journals

Federica Baccini, Lucio Barabesi, Alberto Baccini, Mahdi Khelfaoui and Yves Gingras

International student mobility spurs scientific research on foreign countries: Evidence from international students studying in China

Xingbo Yin and Xiaohua Zong

New directions in science emerge from disconnection and discord

Yiling Lin, James A. Evans and Lingfei Wu

Utilizing citation network structure to predict paper citation counts: A Deep learning approach

Qihang Zhao and Xiaodong Feng

Simulation of the h index use at university departments within the bibliometrics-based heuristics framework: Can the indicator be used to compare individual researchers?

Lutz Bornmann, Christian Ganser and Alexander Tekles

Patent collaborations: From segregation to globalization

Maria Tsouchnika, Alex Smolyak, Panos Argyrakis and Shlomo Havlin

Identifying keyword sleeping beauties: A perspective on the knowledge diffusion process

Jinqing Yang, Yi Bu, Wei Lu, Yong Huang, Jiming Hu, Shengzhi Huang and Li Zhang

Scores of a specific field-normalized indicator calculated with different approaches of field-categorization: Are the scores different or similar?

Robin Haunschild, Angela D. Daniels and Lutz Bornmann

Exploring scientific trajectories of a large-scale dataset using topic-integrated path extraction

Erin H.J. Kim, Yoo Kyung Jeong, YongHwan Kim and Min Song

Effectiveness of research grants funded by European Research Council and Polish National Science Centre

Maciej Dzieżyc and Przemysław Kazienko

Revealing the scientific comparative advantage of nations: Common and distinctive features

Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo and Flavia Di Costa

Dynamics of senses of new physics discourse: Co-keywords analysis

Yurij Katchanov and Yulia V. Markova

Analysis of duplicated publications in Russian journals

Yury V. Chekhovich and Andrey V. Khazov

Which types of online resource support US patent claims?

Cristina I Font-Julián, José-Antonio Ontalba-Ruipérez, Enrique Orduña-Malea and Mike Thelwall

The continuity and citation impact of scientific collaboration with different gender composition

Hongquan Shen, Juan Xie, Weiyi Ao and Ying Cheng

How does duplicate tweeting boost social media exposure to scholarly articles?

Renmeng Cao, Yu Geng, Xiaoke Xu and Xianwen Wang

Interpretation and inference for altmetric indicators arising from sparse data statistics

Lawrence Smolinsky, Bernhard Klingenberg and Brian D. Marx

Does a gender-neutral name associate with the research impact of a scientist?

Ning Zhang, Guangye He, Dongbo Shi, Zhenyue Zhao and Jiang Li

The relationship between readability and scientific impact: Evidence from emerging technology discourses

Lennart Ante

Interpreting the outcomes of research assessments: A geometrical approach

Beniamino Cappelletti-Montano, Silvia Columbu, Stefano Montaldo and Monica Musio

Female inventors over time: Factors affecting female Inventors’ innovation performance

Leila Tahmooresnejad and Ekaterina Turkina

The effect of writing style on success in grant applications

Peter van den Besselaar and Charlie Mom