Journal of Informetrics

2007 - 2025

Current editor(s): Leo Egghe

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Volume 14, issue 4, 2020

An analysis of in-text citations based on fractional counting

Chol Myong Pak, Weibin Wang and Guang Yu

An analysis of the evolution of science-technology linkage in biomedicine

Qing Ke

The power of social cues in the battle for attention: Evidence from an online platform for scholarly commentary

Ho Fai Chan, Sohel Md Bodiuzzman and Benno Torgler

The golden eras of graphene science and technology: Bibliographic evidences from journal and patent publications

Ai Linh Nguyen, Wenyuan Liu, Khiam Aik Khor, Andrea Nanetti and Siew Ann Cheong

Is the Emerging Source Citation Index an aid to assess the citation impact in social science and humanities?

Daniela De Filippo and Juan Gorraiz

Proposal of composed altmetric indicators based on prevalence and impact dimensions

José Luis Ortega

ψ-index: A new overall productivity index for actors of science and technology

Hiran H. Lathabai

Information Science and Library Science (IS-LS) journal subject categorisation and comparison based on editorship information

Yundong Xie, Qiang Wu, Peng Zhang and Xingchen Li

Comparison of citations and attention of cover and non-cover papers

Ling Kong and Dongbo Wang

How do authors select keywords? A preliminary study of author keyword selection behavior

Wei Lu, Zhifeng Liu, Yong Huang, Yi Bu, Xin Li and Qikai Cheng

Scientists’ genders and international academic collaboration: An empirical study of Chinese universities and research institutes

Mengya Zhang, Gupeng Zhang, Yun Liu, Xiaorong Zhai and Xinying Han

Predicting scientific research trends based on link prediction in keyword networks

Saman Behrouzi, Zahra Shafaeipour Sarmoor, Khosrow Hajsadeghi and Kaveh Kavousi

A novel term weighting scheme for text classification: TF-MONO

Turgut Dogan and Alper Kursat Uysal

Preprints as accelerator of scholarly communication: An empirical analysis in Mathematics

Zhiqi Wang, Yue Chen and Wolfgang Glänzel

Knowledge spillovers: Does the geographic proximity effect decay over time? A discipline-level analysis, accounting for cognitive proximity, with and without self-citations

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

Using the full-text content of academic articles to identify and evaluate algorithm entities in the domain of natural language processing

Yuzhuo Wang and Chengzhi Zhang

Introducing recalibrated academic performance indicators in the evaluation of individuals’ research performance: A case study from Eastern Europe

György Csomós

Interpreting CNCIs on a country-scale: The effect of domestic and international collaboration type

Ross W.K. Potter, Martin Szomszor and Jonathan Adams

Quantifying cross-disciplinary knowledge flow from the perspective of content: Introducing an approach based on knowledge memes

Jin Mao, Zhentao Liang, Yujie Cao and Gang Li

A Markov-switching approach to the study of citations in academic journals

Fernando Delbianco, Andrés Fioriti, Allan Hernandez-Chanto and Fernando Tohmé

Data credit distribution: A new method to estimate databases impact

Dennis Dosso and Gianmaria Silvello

Return to basics: Clustering of scientific literature using structural information

Jinhyuk Yun, Sejung Ahn and June Young Lee

The pace of artificial intelligence innovations: Speed, talent, and trial-and-error

Xuli Tang, Xin Li, Ying Ding, Min Song and Yi Bu

The role of international collaborations in securing the patent grant

Kyriakos Drivas and Ioannis Kaplanis

Should citations be field-normalized in evaluative bibliometrics? An empirical analysis based on propensity score matching

Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild and Rüdiger Mutz

Volume 14, issue 3, 2020

Evaluating the influence of country characteristics on the Higher Education System Rankings’ progress

M. Benito, P. Gil and R. Romera

Knowledge recency to the birth of Nobel Prize-winning articles: Gender, career stage, and country

Guoqiang Liang, Haiyan Hou, Ying Ding and Zhigang Hu

Predicting publication productivity for researchers: A piecewise Poisson model

Zheng Xie

Joint estimation of non-parametric transitivity and preferential attachment functions in scientific co-authorship networks

Masaaki Inoue, Thong Pham and Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Early-stage reciprocity in sustainable scientific collaboration

Wei Wang, Jing Ren, Mubarak Alrashoud, Feng Xia, Mengyi Mao and Amr Tolba

A parallel DEA-based method for evaluating parallel independent subunits with heterogeneous outputs

Xi Xiong, Guo-liang Yang and Zhong-cheng Guan

Understanding hierarchical structural evolution in a scientific discipline: A case study of artificial intelligence

Yue Qian, Yu Liu and Quan Z. Sheng

Words ranking and Hirsch index for identifying the core of the hapaxes in political texts

Valerio Ficcadenti, Roy Cerqueti, Marcel Ausloos and Gurjeet Dhesi

An alternative topic model based on Common Interest Authors for topic evolution analysis

Sukhwan Jung and Wan Chul Yoon

Bibliometrics and systematic reviews: A comparison between the Proknow-C and the Methodi Ordinatio

Gustavo Dambiski Gomes de Carvalho, Carla Cristiane Sokulski, Wesley Vieira da Silva, Hélio Gomes de Carvalho, Rafael Vignoli de Moura, Antonio Carlos de Francisco and Claudimar Pereira da Veiga

Research funding: past performance is a stronger predictor of future scientific output than reviewer scores

Balázs Győrffy, Péter Herman and István Szabó

Gender bias in patenting process

Yukai Wang, Zhongkai Yang, Lanjian Liu and Xianwen Wang

Predicting the citation counts of individual papers via a BP neural network

Xuanmin Ruan, Yuanyang Zhu, Jiang Li and Ying Cheng

Moving more, but closer: Mapping the growing regionalization of global scientific mobility using ORCID

Charles J. Gomez, Andrew C. Herman and Paolo Parigi

Mining Temporal Evolution of Knowledge Graphs and Genealogical Features for Literature-based Discovery Prediction

Nazim Choudhury, Fahim Faisal and Matloob Khushi

Identifying prize-winning scientists by a competition-aware ranking

Yuhao Zhou, Ruijie Wang, An Zeng and Yi-Cheng Zhang

Monolingual and multilingual topic analysis using LDA and BERT embeddings

Qing Xie, Xinyuan Zhang, Ying Ding and Min Song

A “Trojan Horse” in the peer-review process of fee-charging economic journals

Roberto Dell'Anno, Rocco Caferra and Andrea Morone

Robust parameterisation of ages of references in published research

Anthony G Stacey

Characterizing the psychiatric drug responses of Reddit users from a socialomics perspective

Min Song and Qing Xie

Volume 14, issue 2, 2020

Application of machine learning techniques to assess the trends and alignment of the funded research output

Ashkan Ebadi, Stéphane Tremblay, Cyril Goutte and Andrea Schiffauerova

Patent citation inflation: The phenomenon, its measurement, and relative indicators to temper its effects

Ying Huang, Lixin Chen and Lin Zhang

Effect of class imbalance in heterogeneous network embedding: An empirical study

Akash Anil and Sanasam Ranbir Singh

An automated conflict of interest based greedy approach for conference paper assignment system

Dinesh K. Pradhan, Joyita Chakraborty, Prasenjit Choudhary and Subrata Nandi

Paper-patent citation linkages as early signs for predicting delayed recognized knowledge: Macro and micro evidence

Jian Du, Peixin Li, Robin Haunschild, Yinan Sun and Xiaoli Tang

Predicting future influence of papers, researchers, and venues in a dynamic academic network

Fang Zhang and Shengli Wu

Assigning credit to scientific datasets using article citation networks

Tong Zeng, Longfeng Wu, Sarah Bratt and Daniel E. Acuna

An investigation of the relationship between scientists’ mobility to/from China and their research performance

Zhenyue Zhao, Yi Bu, Lele Kang, Chao Min, Yiyang Bian, Li Tang and Jiang Li

Comparison of research performance of Italian and Norwegian professors and universities

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

Topic-linked innovation paths in science and technology

Haiyun Xu, Jos Winnink, Zenghui Yue, Ziqiang Liu and Guoting Yuan

Assessing books’ depth and breadth via multi-level mining on tables of contents

Chengzhi Zhang and Qingqing Zhou

Can we automate expert-based journal rankings? Analysis of the Finnish publication indicator

Mirka Saarela and Tommi Kärkkäinen

Improving the reliability of short-term citation impact indicators by taking into account the correlation between short- and long-term citation impact

Xing Wang and Zhihui Zhang

Social media-based sleeping beauties: Defining, identifying and features

Jianhua Hou and Xiucai Yang

Predicting the number of coauthors for researchers: A learning model

Zheng Xie

Polar coordinates and generalized h-type indices

Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau

The role of dyadic social capital in enhancing collaborative knowledge creation

Jing Tu

Are nationally oriented journals indexed in Scopus becoming more international? The effect of publication language and access modality

Henk F. Moed, Felix de Moya-Anegon, Vicente Guerrero-Bote and Carmen Lopez-Illescas

Volume 14, issue 1, 2020

Identification of highly-cited papers using topic-model-based and bibliometric features: the consideration of keyword popularity

Ya-Han Hu, Chun-Tien Tai, Kang Ernest Liu and Cheng-Fang Cai

Temporal bibliographic networks

Vladimir Batagelj and Daria Maltseva

Jointly valuing journal visibility and author citation count: An axiomatic approach

M. Ryan Haley and M Kevin McGee

Unbiased evaluation of ranking metrics reveals consistent performance in science and technology citation data

Shuqi Xu, Manuel Sebastian Mariani, Linyuan Lü and Matúš Medo

Measuring similarity for clarifying layer difference in multiplex ad hoc duplex information networks

Ronda J. Zhang and Fred Y. Ye

Examining drug and side effect relation using author–entity pair bipartite networks

Yoo Kyung Jeong, Qing Xie, Erjia Yan and Min Song

Self-Citations and scientific evaluation: Leadership, influence, and performance

Nadia Simoes and Nuno Crespo

Measurement and analysis of Chinese journal discriminative capacity

Baolong Zhang, Hao Wang, Sanhong Deng and Xinning Su

A novel methodology to assess the scientific standing of nations at field level

Giovanni Abramo and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

A comparison among citation-based journal indicators and their relative changes with time

Xuan Zhen Liu and Hui Fang

Within-journal self-citations and the Pinski-Narin influence weights

Gangan Prathap, Somenath Mukherjee and Loet Leydesdorff

The citation disadvantage of clinical research

Qing Ke

The overlooked citations: Investigating the impact of ignoring citations to published patent applications

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

The role of geographical proximity in knowledge diffusion, measured by citations to scientific literature

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

Analysis of reference and citation copying in evolving bibliographic networks

Pradumn Kumar Pandey, Mayank Singh, Pawan Goyal, Animesh Mukherjee and Soumen Chakrabarti