Journal of Informetrics

2007 - 2025

Current editor(s): Leo Egghe

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Volume 15, issue 4, 2021

Is culture related to strong science? An empirical investigation

Mahmood Khosrowjerdi and Lutz Bornmann

Predicting the popularity of scientific publications by an age-based diffusion model

Yanbo Zhou, Qu Li, Xuhua Yang and Hongbing Cheng

Community-guided link prediction in multiplex networks

Fatemeh Karimi, Shahriar Lotfi and Habib Izadkhah

Influence difference main path analysis: Evidence from DNA and blockchain domain citation networks

Dejian Yu and Libo Sheng

Characterizing Patent Assignees by Their Structural Positions Relative to a Field’s Evolutionary Trajectory

Chung-Huei Kuan, Jia-Tian Lin and Dar-Zen Chen

System for evaluating the reliability and novelty of medical scientific papers

Isaac Martín de Diego, César González-Fernández, Alberto Fernández-Isabel, Rubén R. Fernández and Javier Cabezas

Probing into the interactions between papers and patents of new CRISPR/CAS9 technology: A citation comparison

Jean J. Wang and Fred Y. Ye

The effect of publication traditions and requirements in research assessment and funding policies upon the use of national journals in 28 post-socialist countries

Myroslava Hladchenko and Henk F. Moed

A network embedding-based scholar assessment indicator considering four facets: Research topic, author credit allocation, field-normalized journal impact, and published time

Qing Xie, Xinyuan Zhang and Min Song

Bi-layer network analytics: A methodology for characterizing emerging general-purpose technologies

Yi Zhang, Mengjia Wu, Wen Miao, Lu Huang and Jie Lu

On the inequality of citation counts of all publications of individual authors

Ke Dong, Jiang Wu and Kaili Wang

The effects of citation-based research evaluation schemes on self-citation behavior

Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo and Leonardo Grilli

Team Size, Research Variety, and Research Performance: Do Coauthors’ Coauthors Matter?

Nibing Zhu, Chang Liu and Zhilin Yang

Implementation of the PaperRank and AuthorRank indices in the Scopus database

Pierluigi Amodio, Luigi Brugnano and Filippo Scarselli

Scientific collaboration and career stages: An ego-centric perspective

Wei Lu, Yan Ren, Yong Huang, Yi Bu and Yuehan Zhang

Understanding interdisciplinary knowledge integration through citance analysis: A case study on eHealth

Shiyun Wang, Jin Mao, Kun Lu, Yujie Cao and Gang Li

Citations optimal growth path: A tool to analyze sensitivity to citations of h-like indexes

Meiqian Chen, Zhaoxia Guo, Yucheng Dong, Francisco Chiclana and Enrique Herrera-Viedma

Characterizing interdisciplinarity in drug research: A translational science perspective

Xin Li and Xuli Tang

Quantifying the impact of a teamwork publication

Haochuan Cui, An Zeng, Ying Fan and Zengru Di

Associations between author-level metrics in subsequent time periods

Ana C.M. Brito, Filipi N. Silva and Diego R. Amancio

Disruption indices and their calculation using web-of-science data: Indicators of historical developments or evolutionary dynamics?

Loet Leydesdorff and Lutz Bornmann

The local structure of citation networks uncovers expert-selected milestone papers

Jingjing Wang, Shuqi Xu, Manuel S. Mariani and Linyuan Lü

Self-Citation Patterns of Journals Indexed in the Journal Citation Reports

Zehra Taşkın, Güleda Doğan, Emanuel Kulczycki and Alesia Ann Zuccala

Specialization, field distance, and quality in economists’ collaborations

Ali Onder, Sascha Schweitzer and Hakan Yilmazkuday

Volume 15, issue 3, 2021

A sensitivity analysis of factors influential to the popularity of shared data in data repositories

Qing Xie, Jiamin Wang, Giyeong Kim, Soobin Lee and Min Song

The open access effect in social media exposure of scholarly articles: A matched-pair analysis

Huixu Li, Lanjian Liu and Xianwen Wang

Solving the cold-start problem in scientific credit allocation

Yanmeng Xing, Fenghua Wang, An Zeng and Fan Ying

Convergent validity of several indicators measuring disruptiveness with milestone assignments to physics papers by experts

Lutz Bornmann and Alexander Tekles

Screening the most highly cited papers in longitudinal bibliometric studies and systematic literature reviews of a research field or journal: Widespread used metrics vs a percentile citation-based approach

Gerson Pech and Catarina Delgado

Breaking community boundary: Comparing academic and social communication preferences regarding global pandemics

Qingqing Zhou and Chengzhi Zhang

Use of Benford's law on academic publishing networks

Aleksandar Tošić and Jernej Vičič

New perspectives in bibliometric indicators: Moving from citations to citing authors

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

Potential index: Revealing the future impact of research topics based on current knowledge networks

Qiang Gao, Zhentao Liang, Ping Wang, Jingrui Hou, Xiuxiu Chen and Manman Liu

A supervised machine learning approach to author disambiguation in the Web of Science

Andreas Rehs

A novel approach to measuring science-technology linkage: From the perspective of knowledge network coupling

Zhichao Ba and Zhentao Liang

Scoring the resourcefulness of researchers using bibliographic coupling patterns

Gangan Prathap, Ephrance Abu Ujum, Sameer Kumar and Kuru Ratnavelu

A theory of pointwise defined impact measures

Leo Egghe

‘To tweet or not to tweet?’ A study of the use of Twitter by scholarly book publishers in Social Sciences and Humanities

Yajie Wang, Haiyan Hou and Zhigang Hu

Gender-based homophily in research: A large-scale study of man-woman collaboration

Marek Kwiek and Wojciech Roszka

Developing new data envelopment analysis models to evaluate the efficiency in Ontario Universities

Sarad Ghimire, Saman Hassanzadeh Amin and Leslie J. Wardley

Extracting a core structure from heterogeneous information network using h-subnet and meta-path strength

Ruby W. Wang, Shelia X. Wei and Fred Y. Ye

Post-publication expert recommendations in faculty opinions (F1000Prime): Recommended articles and citations

Peiling Wang and Jing Su

How do media mention research papers? Structural analysis of blogs and news networks using citation coupling

José Luis Ortega

A novel approach for assessing academic journals: Application of integer DEA model for management science and operations research field

Kun Chen, Xian-tong Ren and Guo-liang Yang

The scholarly impact of private sector research: A multivariate analysis

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

The evolution of triangular research and innovation collaborations in the European area

K. Angelou, M. Maragakis, K. Kosmidis and P. Argyrakis

Become a better you: Correlation between the change of research direction and the change of scientific performance

Xiaoyao Yu, Boleslaw K. Szymanski and Tao Jia

Impact of scientific, economic, geopolitical, and cultural factors on international research collaboration

Lei Hou, Yueling Pan and Jonathan J.H. Zhu

Impacts towards a comprehensive assessment of the book impact by integrating multiple evaluation sources

Qingqing Zhou and Chengzhi Zhang

What should be rewarded? Gender and evaluation criteria for tenure and promotion

Laura Cruz-Castro and Luis Sanz-Menendez

Government funded R&D collaboration and it's impact on SME's business performance

Sangil Kim and Keon Chul Park

Exploring the effect of city-level collaboration and knowledge networks on innovation: Evidence from energy conservation field

Zhichao Ba, Jin Mao, Yaxue Ma and Zhentao Liang

Changing research topic trends as an effect of publication rankings – The case of German economists and the Handelsblatt Ranking

Kilian Buehling

Where should I publish? Heterogeneous, networks-based prediction of paper’s citation success

Rajmund Klemiński, Przemyslaw Kazienko and Tomasz Kajdanowicz

Volume 15, issue 2, 2021

On the relationship between download and citation counts: An introduction of Granger-causality inference

Beibei Hu, Yang Ding, Xianlei Dong, Yi Bu and Ying Ding

SCiMet: Stable, sCalable and reliable Metric-based framework for quality assessment in collaborative content generation systems

Mohammad Allahbakhsh, Haleh Amintoosi, Behshid Behkamal, Amin Beheshti and Elisa Bertino

Early indicators of scientific impact: Predicting citations with altmetrics

Akhil Pandey Akella, Hamed Alhoori, Pavan Ravikanth Kondamudi, Cole Freeman and Haiming Zhou

The research productivity of universities. A multilevel and multidisciplinary analysis on European institutions

Andrea Bonaccorsi, Paola Belingheri and Luca Secondi

Predicting the Q of junior researchers using data from the first years of publication

Antônio de Abreu Batista-, Fábio Castro Gouveia and Jesús P. Mena-Chalco

Ranking institutions within a discipline: The steep mountain of academic excellence

Balázs Sziklai

Characterizing references from different disciplines: A perspective of citation content analysis

Chengzhi Zhang, Lifan Liu and Yuzhuo Wang

An improved patent similarity measurement based on entities and semantic relations

Xin An, Jinghong Li, Shuo Xu, Liang Chen and Wei Sun

Tracing the main path of interdisciplinary research considering citation preference: A case from blockchain domain

Dejian Yu and Tianxing Pan

Using technological entropy to identify technology life cycle

Deming Lin, Wenbin Liu, Yinxin Guo and Martin Meyer

Bridge strongly or focus – An analysis of bridging patents in four application fields of carbon fiber reinforcements

Martin G. Moehrle and Jonas Frischkorn

In-code citation practices in open research software libraries

Abdulkareem Alsudais

Measuring the impact of novelty, bibliometric, and academic-network factors on citation count using a neural network

Xinyuan Zhang, Qing Xie and Min Song

A new citation concept: Triangular citation in the literature

Yunmei Liu, Liu Yang and Min Chen

Identifying the impact of patent family on the patent trajectory: A case of thin film solar cells technological trajectories

Kuei-Kuei Lai, Priyanka C. Bhatt, Vimal Kumar, Hsueh-Chen Chen, Yu-Hsin Chang and Fang-Pei Su

Gender differences in research performance within and between countries: Italy vs Norway

Giovanni Abramo, Dag W. Aksnes and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

Identifying core policy instruments based on structural holes: A case study of China’s nuclear energy policy

Cui Huang, Chao Yang and Jun Su

The consistency of impact of preprints and their journal publications

Fang Xu, Guiyan Ou, Tingcan Ma and Xianwen Wang

The internationality of published higher education scholarship: How do the ‘top’ journals compare?

Shannon Mason, Margaret K. Merga, Manuel S. González Canché and Saiyidi Mat Roni

The gap between Plan S requirements and grantees’ publication practices

Przemyslaw Korytkowski and Emanuel Kulczycki

Classification of abrupt changes along viewing profiles of scientific articles

Ana C.M. Brito, Filipi N. Silva, Henrique F. de Arruda, Cesar H. Comin, Diego R. Amancio and Luciano da F. Costa

Volume 15, issue 1, 2021

Is funding related to higher research impact? Exploring its relationship and the mediating role of collaboration in several disciplines

Belén Álvarez-Bornstein and María Bordons

Publication delay adjusted impact factor: The effect of publication delay of articles on journal impact factor

Xiaolong Guo, Xiaoxiao Li and Yugang Yu

Inventor profile mining approach for prospective human resource scouting

Jaemin Chung, Namuk Ko, Hyeonsu Kim and Janghyeok Yoon

On the relation between the degree of internationalization of cited and citing publications: A field level analysis, including and excluding self-citations

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

Great minds think alike, or do they often differ? Research topic overlap and the formation of scientific teams

Thomas Bryan Smith, Raffaele Vacca, Till Krenz and Christopher McCarty

Mitigating ageing bias in article level metrics using citation network analysis

István Tóth, Zsolt I. Lázár, Levente Varga, Ferenc Járai-Szabó, István Papp, Răzvan V. Florian and Mária Ercsey-Ravasz

The inconsistency of h-index: A mathematical analysis

Ricardo Brito and Alonso Rodríguez Navarro

Use of classification trees and rule-based models to optimize the funding assignment to research projects: A case study of UTPL

Roberto Fernandez Martinez, Ruben Lostado Lorza, Ana Alexandra Santos Delgado and Nelson Piedra

The Matthew effect and the halo effect in research funding

Chien Hsiang Liao

SciKGraph: A knowledge graph approach to structure a scientific field

Mauro Dalle Lucca Tosi and Julio Cesar dos Reis

The effect of Russian University Excellence Initiative on publications and collaboration patterns

Nataliya Matveeva, Ivan Sterligov and Maria Yudkevich

SIMILAR – Systematic iterative multilayer literature review method

Zsolt T. Kosztyán, Tibor Csizmadia and Attila I. Katona

Functional analysis of generalized linear models under non-linear constraints with applications to identifying highly-cited papers

K.P. Chowdhury

Will collaborators make scientists move? A Generalized Propensity Score analysis

Meijun Liu and Xiao Hu

Are Altmetric.com scores effective for research impact evaluation in the social sciences and humanities?

Siluo Yang, Mengxue Zheng, Yonghao Yu and Dietmar Wolfram

Using graph embedding and machine learning to identify rebels on twitter

Muhammad Ali Masood and Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi

Examining the characteristics of impactful research topics: A case of three decades of HIV-AIDS research

Ran Xu, Arash Baghaei Lakeh and Navid Ghaffarzadegan

The correlation between author-editorial cooperation and the author’s publications in journals

Tianjiao Zhang, Jin Shi and Lingyun Situ

Exploring the interdisciplinarity patterns of highly cited papers

Shiji Chen, Junping Qiu, Clément Arsenault and Vincent Larivière

Learning multi-resolution representations of research patterns in bibliographic networks

O-Joun Lee, Hyeon-Ju Jeon and Jason J. Jung