Journal of Informetrics

2007 - 2025

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Volume 12, issue 4, 2018

Overcitation and overrepresentation of review papers in the most cited papers pp. 1015-1030

Ruben Miranda and Esther Garcia-Carpintero

Do females create higher impact research? Scopus citations and Mendeley readers for articles from five countries pp. 1031-1041

Mike Thelwall

Topological metrics in academic genealogy graphs pp. 1042-1058

Luciano Rossi, Rafael J.P. Damaceno, Igor L. Freire, Etelvino J.H. Bechara and Jesús P. Mena-Chalco

Information and misinformation in bibliometric time-trend analysis pp. 1063-1071

Jonathan Adams

Impact Factors and the Central Limit Theorem: Why citation averages are scale dependent pp. 1072-1088

Manolis Antonoyiannakis

Long live the scientists: Tracking the scientific fame of great minds in physics pp. 1089-1098

Guoyan Wang, Guangyuan Hu, Chuanfeng Li and Li Tang

Does deep learning help topic extraction? A kernel k-means clustering method with word embedding pp. 1099-1117

Yi Zhang, Jie Lu, Feng Liu, Qian Liu, Alan Porter, Hongshu Chen and Guangquan Zhang

Modelling the Triple Helix of university-industry-government relationships with game theory: Core, Shapley value and nucleolus as indicators of synergy within an innovation system pp. 1118-1132

Eustache Mêgnigbêto

Four pitfalls in normalizing citation indicators: An investigation of ESI’s selection of highly cited papers pp. 1133-1145

Zhigang Hu, Wencan Tian, Shenmeng Xu, Chunbo Zhang and Xianwen Wang

Does the concentration of scientific research funding in institutions promote knowledge output? pp. 1146-1159

Zhifeng Yin, Zheng Liang and Qiang Zhi

Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: A systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories pp. 1160-1177

Alberto Martín-Martín, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Mike Thelwall and Emilio Delgado López-Cózar

A comparison of two approaches for measuring interdisciplinary research output: The disciplinary diversity of authors vs the disciplinary diversity of the reference list pp. 1182-1193

Giovanni Abramo, D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea and Lin Zhang

Technological opportunity discovery for technological convergence based on the prediction of technology knowledge flow in a citation network pp. 1199-1222

Inchae Park and Byungun Yoon

Patent citation spectroscopy (PCS): Online retrieval of landmark patents based on an algorithmic approach pp. 1223-1231

Jordan A. Comins, Stephanie A. Carmack and Loet Leydesdorff

Evaluating university performance using reference point based composite indicators pp. 1235-1250

Samira El Gibari, Trinidad Gómez and Francisco Ruiz

Statistical relationships between corresponding authorship, international co-authorship and citation impact of national research systems pp. 1251-1262

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

A ‘power law’ based method to reduce size-related bias in indicators of knowledge performance: An application to university research assessment pp. 1263-1281

Armando Calabrese, Guendalina Capece, Roberta Costa, Francesca Di Pillo and Stefania Giuffrida

The bibliometric quotient (BQ), or how to measure a researcher’s performance capacity: A Bayesian Poisson Rasch model pp. 1282-1295

Rüdiger Mutz and Hans-Dieter Daniel

Predatory journals: Who publishes in them and why? pp. 1296-1311

Selcuk Besir Demir

Decomposing inequality in research funding by university-institute sub-group: A three-stage nested Theil index pp. 1312-1326

Dengsheng Wu, Lili Yuan, Ruoyun Li and Jianping Li

Volume 12, issue 3, 2018

Ranking dynamics and volatility pp. 567-578

Carlos Garcia-Zorita, Ronald Rousseau, Sergio Marugan-Lazaro and Elias Sanz-Casado

The life cycle of altmetric impact: A longitudinal study of six metrics from PlumX pp. 579-589

José Luis Ortega

Revisiting the scientometric conceptualization of impact and its measurement pp. 590-597

Giovanni Abramo

Critical rationalism and the search for standard (field-normalized) indicators in bibliometrics pp. 598-604

Lutz Bornmann and Werner Marx

Is there Lingua Franca in informal scientific communication? Evidence from language distribution of scientific tweets pp. 605-617

Houqiang Yu, Shenmeng Xu and Tingting Xiao

The relationships between distance factors and international collaborative research outcomes: A bibliometric examination pp. 618-630

Jiang, Ling (Alice), Nibing Zhu, Zhilin Yang, Shen Xu and Minjoon Jun

How to evaluate rankings of academic entities using test data pp. 631-655

Marcel Dunaiski, Jaco Geldenhuys and Willem Visser

The memory of science: Inflation, myopia, and the knowledge network pp. 656-678

Raj K. Pan, Alexander M. Petersen, Fabio Pammolli and Santo Fortunato

Author ranking evaluation at scale pp. 679-702

Marcel Dunaiski, Jaco Geldenhuys and Willem Visser

Comparing scientific and technological impact of biomedical research pp. 706-717

Qing Ke

Technological research in the EU is less efficient than the world average. EU research policy risks Europeans’ future pp. 718-731

Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro and Ricardo Brito

The more multidisciplinary the better? – The prevalence and interdisciplinarity of research collaborations in multidisciplinary institutions pp. 736-756

Zhiya Zuo and Kang Zhao

Stochastic block model reveals maps of citation patterns and their evolution in time pp. 757-783

Darko Hric, Kimmo Kaski and Mikko Kivelä

Assessing R&D efficiency using a two-stage dynamic DEA model: A case study of research institutes in the Chinese Academy of Sciences pp. 784-805

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

Which US and European Higher Education Institutions are visible in ResearchGate and what affects their RG score? pp. 806-818

Benedetto Lepori, Michael Thelwall and Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani

Evidence of open access of scientific publications in Google Scholar: A large-scale analysis pp. 819-841

Alberto Martín-Martín, Rodrigo Costas, Thed van Leeuwen and Emilio Delgado López-Cózar

A new approach to explore the knowledge transition path in the evolution of science & technology: From the biology of restriction enzymes to their application in biotechnology pp. 842-857

Xiaojun Hu and Ronald Rousseau

Proximal advantage in knowledge diffusion: The time dimension pp. 858-867

Jue Wang and Liwei Zhang

Individual and field citation distributions in 29 broad scientific fields pp. 868-892

Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Rodrigo Costas

Topology-driven trend analysis for drug discovery pp. 893-905

Yanhua Lv, Ying Ding, Min Song and Zhiguang Duan

Creativity in science and the link to cited references: Is the creative potential of papers reflected in their cited references? pp. 906-930

Iman Tahamtan and Lutz Bornmann

The negative effects of citing with a national orientation in terms of recognition: National and international citations in natural-sciences papers from Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK pp. 931-949

Lutz Bornmann, Jonathan Adams and Loet Leydesdorff

Google Scholar and Web of Science: Examining gender differences in citation coverage across five scientific disciplines pp. 950-959

Jens Peter Andersen and Mathias Wullum Nielsen

Investigating the quality of interactions and public engagement around scientific papers on Twitter pp. 960-971

Fereshteh Didegah, Niels Mejlgaard and Mads P. Sørensen

Can Microsoft Academic help to assess the citation impact of academic books? pp. 972-984

Kayvan Kousha and Mike Thelwall

Missing author address information in Web of Science—An explorative study pp. 985-997

Weishu Liu, Guangyuan Hu and Li Tang

Normalization of zero-inflated data: An empirical analysis of a new indicator family and its use with altmetrics data pp. 998-1011

Lutz Bornmann and Robin Haunschild

Volume 12, issue 2, 2018

The lognormal distribution explains the remarkable pattern documented by characteristic scores and scales in scientometrics pp. 401-415

Gabriel-Alexandru Vîiu

Ranking journals using social choice theory methods: A novel approach in bibliometrics pp. 416-429

Andrey Subochev, Fuad Aleskerov and Vladimir Pislyakov

Dimensions: A competitor to Scopus and the Web of Science? pp. 430-435

Mike Thelwall

Algorithmically generated subject categories based on citation relations: An empirical micro study using papers on overall water splitting pp. 436-447

Robin Haunschild, Hermann Schier, Werner Marx and Lutz Bornmann

Journal editorship index for assessing the scholarly impact of academic institutions: An empirical analysis in the field of economics pp. 448-460

Dengsheng Wu, Jing Li, Xiaoli Lu and Jianping Li

Characterizing highly cited method and non-method papers using citation contexts: The role of uncertainty pp. 461-480

Henry Small

Examining the usage, citation, and diffusion patterns of bibliometric mapping software: A comparative study of three tools pp. 481-493

Xuelian Pan, Erjia Yan, Ming Cui and Weina Hua

Author-level metrics in the new academic profile platforms: The online behaviour of the Bibliometrics community pp. 494-509

Alberto Martín-Martín, Enrique Orduna-Malea and Emilio Delgado López-Cózar

Ranking scholars: A measure representation pp. 510-517

Casilda Lasso de la Vega and Oscar Volij

Predicting research excellence at the individual level: The importance of publication rate, top journal publications, and top 10% publications in the case of early career mathematicians pp. 518-533

Jonas Lindahl

Reprint of “A spatial scientometric analysis of the publication output of cities worldwide” pp. 547-566

György Csomós

Volume 12, issue 1, 2018

Microsoft Academic automatic document searches: Accuracy for journal articles and suitability for citation analysis pp. 1-9

Mike Thelwall

Measuring the inefficiency of Chinese research universities based on a two-stage network DEA model pp. 10-30

Guo-liang Yang, Hirofumi Fukuyama and Yao-yao Song

Double rank analysis for research assessment pp. 31-41

Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro and Ricardo Brito

Reference density trends in the major disciplines pp. 42-58

Susana Sánchez-Gil, Juan Gorraiz and David Melero-Fuentes

Characterizing in-text citations in scientific articles: A large-scale analysis pp. 59-73

Kevin W. Boyack, Nees Jan van Eck, Giovanni Colavizza and Ludo Waltman

Academic in-group bias: An empirical examination of the link between author and journal affiliation pp. 74-86

Yaniv Reingewertz and Carmela Lutmar

Co-mention network of R packages: Scientific impact and clustering structure pp. 87-100

Kai Li and Erjia Yan

Hidden connections: Network effects on editorial decisions in four computer science journals pp. 101-112

Giangiacomo Bravo, Mike Farjam, Francisco Grimaldo Moreno, Aliaksandr Birukou and Flaminio Squazzoni

Bibliometric approximation of a scientific specialty by combining key sources, title words, authors and references pp. 113-132

Nadine Rons

Granularity of algorithmically constructed publication-level classifications of research publications: Identification of topics pp. 133-152

Peter Sjögårde and Per Ahlgren

A scalable and adaptive method for finding semantically equivalent cue words of uncertainty pp. 158-180

Chaomei Chen, Min Song and Go Eun Heo

Network assembly of scientific communities of varying size and specificity pp. 181-190

Daniel T. Citron and Samuel F. Way

On the relationships between bibliographic characteristics of scientific documents and citation and Mendeley readership counts: A large-scale analysis of Web of Science publications pp. 191-202

Zohreh Zahedi and Stefanie Haustein

Core elements in the process of citing publications: Conceptual overview of the literature pp. 203-216

Iman Tahamtan and Lutz Bornmann

Deriving technology intelligence from patents: Preposition-based semantic analysis pp. 217-236

Jaehyeong An, Kyuwoong Kim, Letizia Mortara and Sungjoo Lee

Could scientists use Altmetric.com scores to predict longer term citation counts? pp. 237-248

Mike Thelwall and Tamara Nevill

Who benefits from a country’s scientific research? pp. 249-258

Giovanni Abramo and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

Missing links: Timing characteristics and their implications for capturing contemporaneous technological developments pp. 259-270

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

An improved SAO network-based method for technology trend analysis: A case study of graphene pp. 271-286

Chao Yang, Cui Huang and Jun Su

Can Microsoft Academic assess the early citation impact of in-press articles? A multi-discipline exploratory analysis pp. 287-298

Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall and Mahshid Abdoli

Bi-directional h-index: A new measure of node centrality in weighted and directed networks pp. 299-314

Li Zhai, Xiangbin Yan and Guojing Zhang

Research assessment by percentile-based double rank analysis pp. 315-329

Ricardo Brito and Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro

Effect of publication month on citation impact pp. 330-343

Paul Donner

Survive or perish: Investigating the life cycle of academic journals from 1950 to 2013 using survival analysis methods pp. 344-364

Meijun Liu, Xiao Hu, Yuandi Wang and Dongbo Shi

Funding, evaluation, and the performance of national research systems pp. 365-384

Ulf Sandström and Peter Van den Besselaar

Research universities on the ResearchGate social networking site: An examination of institutional differences, research activity level, and social networks formed pp. 385-400

Weiwei Yan and Yin Zhang