Journal of Informetrics

2007 - 2025

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Volume 11, issue 4, 2017

Understanding multiply mentioned references pp. 948-958

Zhigang Hu, Gege Lin, Taian Sun and Haiyan Hou

bibliometrix: An R-tool for comprehensive science mapping analysis pp. 959-975

Massimo Aria and Corrado Cuccurullo

How is R cited in research outputs? Structure, impacts, and citation standard pp. 989-1002

Kai Li, Erjia Yan and Yuanyuan Feng

A remarkable example in three-dimensional informetrics. The geometric law: Distribution of use or distribution of structure? pp. 1003-1015

Abdellatif Agouzal and Thierry Lafouge

The relationship among research productivity, research collaboration, and their determinants pp. 1016-1030

Giovanni Abramo, D’Angelo, Andrea Ciriaco and Gianluca Murgia

Bridging centrality as an indicator to measure the ‘bridging role’ of actors in networks: An application to the European Nanotechnology co-publication network pp. 1031-1042

Laurent Bergé, Thomas Scherngell and Iris Wanzenböck

PageRank-based prediction of award-winning researchers and the impact of citations pp. 1044-1068

Dalibor Fiala and Gabriel Tutoky

Confidence intervals for normalised citation counts: Can they delimit underlying research capability? pp. 1069-1079

Mike Thelwall

Mapping science using Library of Congress Subject Headings pp. 1080-1094

Fei Shu, Jesse David Dinneen, Banafsheh Asadi and Charles-Antoine Julien

Improving fitness: Mapping research priorities against societal needs on obesity pp. 1095-1113

Lorenzo Cassi, Agénor Lahatte, Ismael Rafols, Pierre Sautier and Élisabeth de Turckheim

Hierarchical organization of H. Eugene Stanley scientific collaboration community in weighted network representation pp. 1114-1127

Stanisław Drożdż, Andrzej Kulig, Jarosław Kwapień, Artur Niewiarowski and Marek Stanuszek

TimeRank: A dynamic approach to rate scholars using citations pp. 1128-1141

Massimo Franceschet and Giovanni Colavizza

The research production of nations and departments: A statistical model for the share of publications pp. 1142-1157

Mike Thelwall and Ruth Fairclough

Research portfolio analysis and topic prominence pp. 1158-1174

Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack

Understanding the topic evolution in a scientific domain: An exploratory study for the field of information retrieval pp. 1175-1189

Baitong Chen, Satoshi Tsutsui, Ying Ding and Feicheng Ma

Unraveling the dynamics of growth, aging and inflation for citations to scientific articles from specific research fields pp. 1190-1200

Kyle Higham, M. Governale, Adam Jaffe and U. Zülicke

Microsoft Academic: A multidisciplinary comparison of citation counts with Scopus and Mendeley for 29 journals pp. 1201-1212

Mike Thelwall

Gender and citation impact in management research pp. 1213-1228

Mathias Wullum Nielsen

The scientific influence of nations on global scientific and technological development pp. 1229-1237

Aurelio Patelli, Giulio Cimini, Emanuele Pugliese and Andrea Gabrielli

Volume 11, issue 3, 2017

Are there any frontiers of research performance? Efficiency measurement of funded research projects with the Bayesian stochastic frontier analysis for count data pp. 613-628

Rüdiger Mutz, Lutz Bornmann and Hans-Dieter Daniel

Search for evergreens in science: A functional data analysis pp. 629-644

Ruizhi Zhang, Jian Wang and Yajun Mei

The geotemporal demographics of academic journals from 1950 to 2013 according to Ulrich’s database pp. 655-671

Yuandi Wang, Ruifeng Hu and Meijun Liu

A categorization of arguments for counting methods for publication and citation indicators pp. 672-684

Marianne Gauffriau

Measuring the citation impact of journals with generalized Lorenz curves pp. 689-703

Tommaso Lando and Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti

Quantifying perceived impact of scientific publications pp. 704-712

Filippo Radicchi, Alexander Weissman and Johan Bollen

Predicting the age of researchers using bibliometric data pp. 713-729

Gabriela F. Nane, Vincent Larivière and Rodrigo Costas

Do subjective journal ratings represent whole journals or typical articles? Unweighted or weighted citation impact? pp. 730-744

William H. Walters

Disaggregated research evaluation through median-based characteristic scores and scales: a comparison with the mean-based approach pp. 748-765

Gabriel-Alexandru Vîiu

Quantifying and suppressing ranking bias in a large citation network pp. 766-782

Giacomo Vaccario, Matúš Medo, Nicolas Wider and Manuel Sebastian Mariani

Can the journal impact factor be used as a criterion for the selection of junior researchers? A large-scale empirical study based on ResearcherID data pp. 788-799

Lutz Bornmann and Richard Williams

Who is the ‘Journal Grand Master’? A new ranking based on the Elo rating system pp. 800-809

Robert Lehmann and Klaus Wohlrabe

Combining multiple scholarly relationships with author cocitation analysis: A preliminary exploration on improving knowledge domain mappings pp. 810-822

Yi Bu, Shaokang Ni and Win-bin Huang

Suitability of Google Scholar as a source of scientific information and as a source of data for scientific evaluation—Review of the Literature pp. 823-834

Gali Halevi, Henk Moed and Judit Bar-Ilan

DataCite as a novel bibliometric source: Coverage, strengths and limitations pp. 841-854

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Philippe Mongeon, Wei Jeng and Rodrigo Costas

What drives university research performance? An analysis using the CWTS Leiden Ranking data pp. 859-872

Koen Frenken, Gaston Heimeriks and Jarno Hoekman

Multiplicity and uncertainty: Media coverage of autism causation pp. 873-887

Yujia Zhai, Shaojing Sun, Fang Wang and Ying Ding

Detecting the emergence of new scientific collaboration links in Africa: A comparison of expected and realized collaboration intensities pp. 892-903

Raf Guns and Lili Wang

Perverse effects of output-based research funding? Butler’s Australian case revisited pp. 905-918

Peter van den Besselaar, Ulf Heyman and Ulf Sandström

Volume 11, issue 2, 2017

Critical remarks on the Italian research assessment exercise VQR 2011–2014 pp. 337-357

Fiorenzo Franceschini and Domenico Maisano

An analysis of the foreign-educated elite academics in the United States pp. 358-370

Tolga Yuret

Research impact in co-authorship networks: a two-mode analysis pp. 371-388

Tahereh Dehdarirad and Stefano Nasini

Uncovering fine-grained research excellence: The global research benchmarking system pp. 389-406

Peter Haddawy, Saeed-Ul Hassan, Craig W. Abbey and Inn Beng Lee

The impact of collaboration and knowledge networks on citations pp. 407-422

Jiancheng Guan, Yan Yan and Jing Jing Zhang

Do researchers pay attention to publication subsidies? pp. 423-434

Tolga Yuret

The solitude of stars. An analysis of the distributed excellence model of European universities pp. 435-454

Andrea Bonaccorsi, Peter Haddawy, Tindaro Cicero and Saeed-Ul Hassan

An empirical and theoretical critique of the Euclidean index pp. 455-465

Jens Peter Andersen

Global science discussed in local altmetrics: Weibo and its comparison with Twitter pp. 466-482

Houqiang Yu, Shenmeng Xu, Tingting Xiao, Brad M. Hemminger and Siluo Yang

Proposal of indicators for the structural analysis of scientific articles pp. 483-497

José Osvaldo De Sordi, Wanderlei Lima de Paulo, Manuel Antonio Meireles, Marcia Carvalho de Azevedo and Luis Hernan Contreras Pinochet

Patterns of authors contribution in scientific manuscripts pp. 498-510

Edilson A. Corrêa , Filipi N. Silva, Luciano da F. Costa and Diego R. Amancio

Hawkes process-based technology impact analysis pp. 511-529

Hyun Jin Jang, Han-Gyun Woo and Changyong Lee

The accuracy of confidence intervals for field normalised indicators pp. 530-540

Mike Thelwall and Ruth Fairclough

On evaluating the quality of a computer science/computer engineering conference pp. 541-552

Orestis-Stavros Loizides and Polychronis Koutsakis

Recommendation of scholarly venues based on dynamic user interests pp. 553-563

Hamed Alhoori and Richard Furuta

Genealogical index: A metric to analyze advisor–advisee relationships pp. 564-582

Luciano Rossi, Igor L. Freire and Jesús P. Mena-Chalco

Measuring cognitive distance between publication portfolios pp. 583-594

Ronald Rousseau, Raf Guns, A.I.M. Jakaria Rahman and Tim C.E. Engels

Do mathematicians, economists and biomedical scientists trace large topics more strongly than physicists? pp. 598-607

Menghui Li, Liying Yang, Huina Zhang, Zhesi Shen, Chensheng Wu and Jinshan Wu

The time dimension of science: Connecting the past to the future pp. 608-621

Yian Yin and Dashun Wang

The Herrero-Villar approach to citation impact pp. 625-640

Pedro Albarran, Carmen Herrero, Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Antonio Villar

Examining academic ranking and inequality in library and information science through faculty hiring networks pp. 641-654

Yongjun Zhu and Erjia Yan

Disciplinary knowledge diffusion in business research pp. 655-668

Chaojiang Wu, Erjia Yan and Chelsey Hill

Heterogeneity in an undirected network: Definition and measurement pp. 669-682

Xiaojun Hu, Loet Leydesdorff and Ronald Rousseau

Volume 11, issue 1, 2017

A simple index of innovation with complexity pp. 1-17

Jose Fernandez Donoso

The Brazilian scientific output published in journals: A study based on a large CV database pp. 18-31

Marcelo S. Perlin, Andre Santos, Takeyoshi Imasato, Denis Borenstein and Sergio Da Silva

A comparison of the Web of Science and publication-level classification systems of science pp. 32-45

Antonio Perianes-Rodriguez and Javier Ruiz-Castillo

Discovering discoveries: Identifying biomedical discoveries using citation contexts pp. 46-62

Henry Small, Hung Tseng and Mike Patek

Do patent citations indicate knowledge linkage? The evidence from text similarities between patents and their citations pp. 63-79

Lixin Chen

The sum of it all: Revealing collaboration patterns by combining authorship and acknowledgements pp. 80-87

Adèle Paul-Hus, Philippe Mongeon, Maxime Sainte-Marie and Vincent Larivière

The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships: A network approach pp. 88-102

Tanya Araújo and Elsa Fontainha

The role of guarantor in scientific collaboration: The neighbourhood matters pp. 103-116

Rodrigo Sánchez-Jiménez, Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote and Félix Moya-Anegón

Does your surname affect the citability of your publications? pp. 121-127

Giovanni Abramo and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

Three practical field normalised alternative indicator formulae for research evaluation pp. 128-151

Mike Thelwall

Can we use Google Scholar to identify highly-cited documents? pp. 152-163

Alberto Martin-Martin, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Anne-Wil Harzing and Emilio Delgado López-Cózar

Skewness of citation impact data and covariates of citation distributions: A large-scale empirical analysis based on Web of Science data pp. 164-175

Lutz Bornmann and Loet Leydesdorff

Introducing metaknowledge: Software for computational research in information science, network analysis, and science of science pp. 176-197

John McLevey and Reid McIlroy-Young

Detecting rising stars in dynamic collaborative networks pp. 198-222

George Panagopoulos, George Tsatsaronis and Iraklis Varlamis

Citation success index − An intuitive pair-wise journal comparison metric pp. 223-231

Staša Milojević, Filippo Radicchi and Judit Bar-Ilan

Research production in high-impact journals of contemporary neuroscience: A gender analysis pp. 232-243

Julio González-Álvarez and Teresa Cervera-Crespo

Exploring paper characteristics that facilitate the knowledge flow from science to technology pp. 244-256

Cherng G. Ding, Wen-Chi Hung, Meng-Che Lee and Hung-Jui Wang

Partial orders for zero-sum arrays with applications to network theory pp. 257-274

Yuxian Liu, Ronald Rousseau and Leo Egghe

The need to quantify authors’ relative intellectual contributions in a multi-author paper pp. 275-281

Mohammad Tariqur Rahman, Joe Mac Regenstein, Noor Lide Abu Kassim and Nazmul Haque

Toward an excellence-based research funding system: Evidence from Poland pp. 282-298

Emanuel Kulczycki, Marcin Korzeń and Przemysław Korytkowski

Bibliometric author evaluation through linear regression on the coauthor network pp. 299-306

Rasmus A.X. Persson

Standing on the shoulders of giants pp. 307-323

Tehmina Amjad, Ying Ding, Jian Xu, Chenwei Zhang, Ali Daud, Jie Tang and Min Song

An investigation on the skewness patterns and fractal nature of research productivity distributions at field and discipline level pp. 324-335

Giovanni Abramo, D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea and Anastasiia Soldatenkova