Journal of Informetrics

2007 - 2025

Current editor(s): Leo Egghe

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Volume 13, issue 4, 2019

Megajournal mismanagement: Manuscript decision bias and anomalous editor activity at PLOS ONE

Alexander M. Petersen

Do we measure novelty when we analyze unusual combinations of cited references? A validation study of bibliometric novelty indicators based on F1000Prime data

Lutz Bornmann, Alexander Tekles, Helena H. Zhang and Fred Y. Ye

Coping with methods for delineating emerging fields: Nanoscience and nanotechnology as a case study

Teresa Muñoz-Écija, Benjamín Vargas-Quesada and Zaida Chinchilla Rodríguez

Forward search path count as an alternative indirect citation impact indicator

Xiaorui Jiang and Hai Zhuge

A Game Theoretic Approach to Peer Review of Grant Proposals

Esra Eren Bayindir, Mehmet Gurdal and Ismail Saglam

Emerging research topics detection with multiple machine learning models

Shuo Xu, Liyuan Hao, Xin An, Guancan Yang and Feifei Wang

Exploring the forward citation patterns of patents based on the evolution of technology fields

Su Jung Jee, Minji Kwon, Jung Moon Ha and So Young Sohn

Measuring dissatisfaction with coauthorship: An empirical approach based on the researchers’ perception

Javier Gómez-Ferri, Gregorio González-Alcaide and Ramón LLopis-Goig

Journal ranking should depend on the level of aggregation

László Csató

The structure of collaboration networks: Findings from three decades of co-invention patents in Chile

Pablo E. Pinto, Andres Vallone and Guillermo Honores

Bibliographically coupled patents: Their temporal pattern and combined relevance

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

The distinction machine: Physics journals from the perspective of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov statistic

Yurij Katchanov, Yulia V. Markova and Natalia A. Shmatko

Volume 13, issue 3, 2019

Measuring and exploring the geographic mobility of American professors from graduating institutions: Differences across disciplines, academic ranks, and genders pp. 771-784

Zekai He, Ni Zhen and Chaojiang Wu

Solution by step functions of a minimum problem in L2[0,T], using generalized h- and g-indices pp. 785-792

Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau

Mapping the backbone of the Humanities through the eyes of Wikipedia pp. 793-803

Daniel Torres-Salinas, Esteban Romero-Frías and Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado

Publication counting methods for a national research evaluation exercise pp. 804-816

Przemyslaw Korytkowski and Emanuel Kulczycki

Analyzing linguistic complexity and scientific impact pp. 817-829

Chao Lu, Yi Bu, Xianlei Dong, Jie Wang, Ying Ding, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Logan Paul and Chengzhi Zhang

When research assessment exercises leave room for opportunistic behavior by the subjects under evaluation pp. 830-840

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

Who posts scientific tweets? An investigation into the productivity, locations, and identities of scientific tweeters pp. 841-855

Houqiang Yu, Tingting Xiao, Shenmeng Xu and Yuefen Wang

Exploring all-author tripartite citation networks: A case study of gene editing pp. 856-873

Feifei Wang, Chenran Jia, Xiaohan Wang, Junwan Liu, Shuo Xu, Yang Liu and Chenyuyan Yang

Exploring Goodreads reviews for book impact assessment pp. 874-886

Kai Wang, Xiaojuan Liu and Yutong Han

How does collaboration affect researchers’ positions in co-authorship networks? pp. 887-900

Xiangjie Kong, Mengyi Mao, Huizhen Jiang, Shuo Yu and Liangtian Wan

Volume 13, issue 2, 2019

Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations? pp. 467-484

Kayvan Kousha and Mike Thelwall

Predicting citation counts based on deep neural network learning techniques pp. 485-499

Ali Abrishami and Sadegh Aliakbary

Are all citations worth the same? Valuing citations by the value of the citing items pp. 500-514

Cristiano Giuffrida, Giovanni Abramo and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

Biblioranking fundamental physics pp. 515-539

Alessandro Strumia and Riccardo Torre

The value and credits of n-authors publications pp. 540-554

Lutz Bornmann and António Osório

The rhetorical structure of science? A multidisciplinary analysis of article headings pp. 555-563

Mike Thelwall

Authorship analysis of specialized vs diversified research output pp. 564-573

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

Research software citation in the Data Citation Index: Current practices and implications for research software sharing and reuse pp. 574-582

Hyoungjoo Park and Dietmar Wolfram

Long-term correlations in short, non-stationary time series: An application to international R&D collaborations pp. 583-592

Lorenzo Righetto, Alessandro Spelta, Emanuele Rabosio and Fabio Pammolli

Public-private collaboration and scientific impact: An analysis based on Danish publication data for 1995–2013 pp. 593-604

Carter Bloch, Thomas K. Ryan and Jens Peter Andersen

A refined method for computing bibliographic coupling strengths pp. 605-615

Si Shen, Danhao Zhu, Ronald Rousseau, Xinning Su and Dongbo Wang

Ranking scientific articles based on bibliometric networks with a weighting scheme pp. 616-634

Yu Zhang, Min Wang, Florian Gottwalt, Morteza Saberi and Elizabeth Chang

Comparison of two article-level, field-independent citation metrics: Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) and Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) pp. 635-642

Amrita Purkayastha, Eleonora Palmaro, Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski and Jeroen Baas

How to consider fractional counting and field normalization in the statistical modeling of bibliometric data: A multilevel Poisson regression approach pp. 643-657

Rüdiger Mutz and Hans-Dieter Daniel

Should citations be counted separately from each originating section? pp. 658-678

Mike Thelwall

Measuring scientific contributions with modified fractional counting pp. 679-694

Gunnar Sivertsen, Ronald Rousseau and Lin Zhang

Does the public discuss other topics on climate change than researchers? A comparison of explorative networks based on author keywords and hashtags pp. 695-707

Robin Haunschild, Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, Iina Hellsten and Werner Marx

The “invisible hand” of peer review: The implications of author-referee networks on peer review in a scholarly journal pp. 708-716

Pierpaolo Dondio, Niccolò Casnici, Francisco Grimaldo, Nigel Gilbert and Flaminio Squazzoni

Discoverers in scientific citation data pp. 717-725

Gui-Yuan Shi, Yi-Xiu Kong, Guang-Hui Yuan, Rui-Jie Wu, An Zeng and Matúš Medo

Testing for universality of Mendeley readership distributions pp. 726-737

D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea and Samuele Di Russo

An empirical approach based on quantile regression for estimating citation ageing pp. 738-750

Sebastian Galiani and Ramiro Gálvez

The effect of open access on research quality pp. 751-756

Has van Vlokhoven

Rooted citation graphs density metrics for research papers influence evaluation pp. 757-768

Christos Giatsidis, Giannis Nikolentzos, Chenhui Zhang, Jie Tang and Michalis Vazirgiannis

Volume 13, issue 1, 2019

The balance of knowledge flows pp. 1-9

Giovanni Abramo, D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea and Massimiliano Carloni

Convexity in scientific collaboration networks pp. 10-31

Lovro Šubelj, Dalibor Fiala, Tadej Ciglarič and Luka Kronegger

Predicting publication long-term impact through a combination of early citations and journal impact factor pp. 32-49

Giovanni Abramo, D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea and Giovanni Felici

The many faces of mobility: Using bibliometric data to measure the movement of scientists pp. 50-63

Nicolás Robinson-Garcia, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Dakota Murray, Alfredo Yegros-Yegros, Vincent Larivière and Rodrigo Costas

Do researchers collaborate in a similar way to publish and to develop projects? pp. 64-77

J. Clemente-Gallardo, A. Ferrer, D. Íñiguez, A. Rivero, G. Ruiz and A. Tarancón

The F3-index. Valuing reviewers for scholarly journals pp. 78-86

Federico Bianchi, Francisco Grimaldo and Flaminio Squazzoni

On the Shapley value and its application to the Italian VQR research assessment exercise pp. 87-104

Camil Demetrescu, Francesco Lupia, Angelo Mendicelli, Andrea Ribichini, Francesco Scarcello and Marco Schaerf

An empirical investigation of the tribes and their territories: Are research specialisms rural and urban? pp. 105-117

Giovanni Colavizza, Thomas Franssen and Thed van Leeuwen

Gender and research publishing in India: Uniformly high inequality? pp. 118-131

Mike Thelwall, Carol Bailey, Meiko Makita, Pardeep Sud and Devika P. Madalli

Measuring the knowledge translation and convergence in pharmaceutical innovation by funding-science-technology-innovation linkages analysis pp. 132-148

Jian Du, Peixin Li, Qianying Guo and Xiaoli Tang

Gender differences in research areas, methods and topics: Can people and thing orientations explain the results? pp. 149-169

Mike Thelwall, Carol Bailey, Catherine Tobin and Noel-Ann Bradshaw

Does the normalized citation impact of universities profit from certain properties of their published documents – such as the number of authors and the impact factor of the publishing journals? A multilevel modeling approach pp. 170-184

Lutz Bornmann

Measuring the academic reputation through citation networks via PageRank pp. 185-201

Francesco Alessandro Massucci and Domingo Docampo

Comparing journal and paper level classifications of science pp. 202-225

Fei Shu, Charles-Antoine Julien, Lin Zhang, Junping Qiu, Jing Zhang and Vincent Larivière

Are NIH-funded publications fulfilling the proposed research? An examination of concept-matchedness between NIH research grants and their supported publications pp. 226-237

Kai Li and Erjia Yan

Peer and neighborhood effects: Citation analysis using a spatial autoregressive model and pseudo-spatial data pp. 238-254

Sergio Copiello

Interdisciplinarity as diversity in citation patterns among journals: Rao-Stirling diversity, relative variety, and the Gini coefficient pp. 255-269

Loet Leydesdorff, Caroline Wagner and Lutz Bornmann

On the interplay between normalisation, bias, and performance of paper impact metrics pp. 270-290

Marcel Dunaiski, Jaco Geldenhuys and Willem Visser

Infinite sequences and their h-type indices pp. 291-298

Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau

Globalised vs averaged: Bias and ranking performance on the author level pp. 299-313

Marcel Dunaiski, Jaco Geldenhuys and Willem Visser

Evaluating research and researchers by the journal impact factor: Is it better than coin flipping? pp. 314-324

Ricardo Brito and Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro

Do altmetrics assess societal impact in a comparable way to case studies? An empirical test of the convergent validity of altmetrics based on data from the UK research excellence framework (REF) pp. 325-340

Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild and Jonathan Adams

Standing on the shoulders of giants?—Faculty hiring in information schools pp. 341-353

Zhiya Zuo, Kang Zhao and Chaoqun Ni

Scientific community detection via bipartite scholar/journal graph co-clustering pp. 354-386

Chiara Carusi and Giuseppe Bianchi

How mean rank and mean size may determine the generalised Lorenz curve: With application to citation analysis pp. 387-396

Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti and Tommaso Lando

How important is software to library and information science research? A content analysis of full-text publications pp. 397-406

Xuelian Pan, Erjia Yan, Ming Cui and Weina Hua

Predicting the citations of scholarly paper pp. 407-418

Xiaomei Bai, Fuli Zhang and Ivan Lee

Using Scopus’s CiteScore for assessing the quality of computer science conferences pp. 419-433

Lokman I. Meho

Origin, characteristics, predominance and conceptual networks of eponyms in the bibliometric literature pp. 434-448

J.C. Valderrama-Zurian, D. Melero-Fuentes and R. Aleixandre-Benavent

Challenges of measuring software impact through citations: An examination of the lme4 R package pp. 449-461

Kai Li, Pei-Ying Chen and Erjia Yan