Journal of Informetrics

2007 - 2025

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Volume 10, issue 4, 2016

A comparison of university performance scores and ranks by MNCS and FSS pp. 889-901

Giovanni Abramo and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

Construction of a pragmatic base line for journal classifications and maps based on aggregated journal-journal citation relations pp. 902-918

Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann and Ping Zhou

Hybrid open access—A longitudinal study pp. 919-932

Mikael Laakso and Bo-Christer Björk

Empirical analysis and classification of database errors in Scopus and Web of Science pp. 933-953

Fiorenzo Franceschini, Domenico Maisano and Luca Mastrogiacomo

Content- and proximity-based author co-citation analysis using citation sentences pp. 954-966

Ha Jin Kim, Yoo Kyung Jeong and Min Song

Unconnected component inclusion technique for patent network analysis: Case study of Internet of Things-related technologies pp. 967-980

Yasutomo Takano, Cristian Mejia and Yuya Kajikawa

Properties of an index of citation durability of an article pp. 981-1004

Natsuo Onodera

Is this conference a top-tier? ConfAssist: An assistive conflict resolution framework for conference categorization pp. 1005-1022

Mayank Singh, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Animesh Mukherjee and Pawan Goyal

The world network of scientific collaborations between cities: domestic or international dynamics? pp. 1025-1036

Marion Maisonobe, Denis Eckert, Michel Grossetti, Laurent Jégou and Béatrice Milard

Clustering citation histories in the Physical Review pp. 1037-1051

Giovanni Colavizza and Massimo Franceschet

A critical cluster analysis of 44 indicators of author-level performance pp. 1055-1078

Lorna Wildgaard

Scientific influence is not always visible: The phenomenon of under-cited influential publications pp. 1079-1091

Xiaojun Hu and Ronald Rousseau

Searching bibliographic data using graphs: A visual graph query interface pp. 1092-1107

Yongjun Zhu and Erjia Yan

A hybrid similarity measure method for patent portfolio analysis pp. 1108-1130

Yi Zhang, Lining Shang, Lu Huang, Alan L. Porter, Guangquan Zhang, Jie Lu and Donghua Zhu

A longitudinal study of the bookmarking of library and information science literature in Mendeley pp. 1135-1142

Aida Pooladian and Ángel Borrego

Towards field-adjusted production: Estimating research productivity from a zero-truncated distribution pp. 1143-1152

Timo Koski, Erik Sandström and Ulf Sandström

Measuring delayed recognition for papers: Uneven weighted summation and total citations pp. 1153-1165

Chao Min, Jianjun Sun, Lei Pei and Ying Ding

The impact of author-selected keywords on citation counts pp. 1166-1177

Shahadat Uddin and Arif Khan

Constructing bibliometric networks: A comparison between full and fractional counting pp. 1178-1195

Antonio Perianes-Rodriguez, Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck

Interfield equality: Journals versus researchers pp. 1196-1206

Tolga Yuret

Identification of milestone papers through time-balanced network centrality pp. 1207-1223

Manuel Sebastian Mariani, Matúš Medo and Yi-Cheng Zhang

Sampling issues in bibliometric analysis pp. 1225-1232

Richard Williams and Lutz Bornmann

There should not be any mystery: A comment on sampling issues in bibliometrics pp. 1233-1240

François Claveau

Volume 10, issue 3, 2016

A longitudinal analysis of link formation on collaboration networks pp. 685-692

Alireza Abbasi

Expert-based versus citation-based ranking of scholarly and scientific publication channels pp. 693-718

Mirka Saarela, Tommi Kärkkäinen, Tommi Lahtonen and Tuomo Rossi

Measuring the robustness of the journal h-index with respect to publication and citation values: A Bayesian sensitivity analysis pp. 719-731

Chrysovalantis Malesios

Posted, visited, exported: Altmetrics in the social tagging system BibSonomy pp. 732-749

Daniel Zoller, Stephan Doerfel, Robert Jäschke, Gerd Stumme and Andreas Hotho

Mapping the evolution of scientific fields based on cross-field authors pp. 750-761

Xiaoling Sun, Kun Ding and Yuan Lin

Finding a representative subset from large-scale documents pp. 762-775

Jin Zhang, Guannan Liu and Ming Ren

Normalization of Mendeley reader impact on the reader- and paper-side: A comparison of the mean discipline normalized reader score (MDNRS) with the mean normalized reader score (MNRS) and bare reader counts pp. 776-788

Lutz Bornmann and Robin Haunschild

Gazing at the skyline for star scientists pp. 789-813

A. Sidiropoulos, A. Gogoglou, D. Katsaros and Y. Manolopoulos

Differing disciplinary citation concentration patterns of book and journal literature? pp. 814-829

Pei-Shan Chi

Automating bibliometric analyses using Taverna scientific workflows: A tutorial on integrating Web Services pp. 830-841

Arzu Tugce Guler, Cathelijn J.F. Waaijer, Yassene Mohammed and Magnus Palmblad

Which publication is your representative work? pp. 842-853

Qikai Niu, Jianlin Zhou, An Zeng, Ying Fan and Zengru Di

From rankings to funnel plots: The question of accounting for uncertainty when assessing university research performance pp. 854-862

Giovanni Abramo, D’Angelo, Andrea Ciriaco and Leonardo Grilli

Citation count distributions for large monodisciplinary journals pp. 863-874

Mike Thelwall

Citation score normalized by cited references (CSNCR): The introduction of a new citation impact indicator pp. 875-887

Lutz Bornmann and Robin Haunschild

Volume 10, issue 2, 2016

Positive correlation between quality and quantity in academic journals pp. 329-335

Ding-wei Huang

The discretised lognormal and hooked power law distributions for complete citation data: Best options for modelling and regression pp. 336-346

Mike Thelwall

Large-scale analysis of the accuracy of the journal classification systems of Web of Science and Scopus pp. 347-364

Qi Wang and Ludo Waltman

A review of the literature on citation impact indicators pp. 365-391

Ludo Waltman

Evaluating paper and author ranking algorithms using impact and contribution awards pp. 392-407

Marcel Dunaiski, Willem Visser and Jaco Geldenhuys

Assessing evaluation procedures for individual researchers: The case of the Italian National Scientific Qualification pp. 408-438

Moreno Marzolla

Modeling and visualization of media in Arabic pp. 439-453

Zeev Volkovich, Oleg Granichin, Oleg Redkin and Olga Bernikova

Are the discretised lognormal and hooked power law distributions plausible for citation data? pp. 454-470

Mike Thelwall

A data analytic approach to quantifying scientific impact pp. 471-484

Xuanyu Cao, Yan Chen and K.J. Ray Liu

Using network science and text analytics to produce surveys in a scientific topic pp. 487-502

Filipi N. Silva, Diego R. Amancio, Maria Bardosova, Luciano da F. Costa and Osvaldo N. Oliveira

Introducing CitedReferencesExplorer (CRExplorer): A program for reference publication year spectroscopy with cited references standardization pp. 503-515

Andreas Thor, Werner Marx, Loet Leydesdorff and Lutz Bornmann

Exploring the position of cities in global corporate research and development: A bibliometric analysis by two different geographical approaches pp. 516-532

György Csomós and Géza Tóth

A new methodology for comparing Google Scholar and Scopus pp. 533-551

Henk F. Moed, Judit Bar-Ilan and Gali Halevi

A theoretical evaluation of Hirsch-type bibliometric indicators confronted with extreme self-citation pp. 552-566

Gabriel-Alexandru Vîiu

Network and actor attribute effects on the performance of researchers in two fields of social science in a small peripheral community pp. 571-595

Srebrenka Letina

The ratio of top scientists to the academic staff as an indicator of the competitive strength of universities pp. 596-605

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

Generation of topic evolution trees from heterogeneous bibliographic networks pp. 606-621

Scott Jensen, Xiaozhong Liu, Yingying Yu and Staša Milojevic

Are there too many uncited articles? Zero inflated variants of the discretised lognormal and hooked power law distributions pp. 622-633

Mike Thelwall

Opinion polarity detection in Twitter data combining shrinkage regression and topic modeling pp. 634-644

Hyui Geon Yoon, Hyungjun Kim, Chang Ouk Kim and Min Song

A farewell to the MNCS and like size-independent indicators pp. 646-651

Giovanni Abramo and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

Volume 10, issue 1, 2016

The advantage of simple paper abstracts pp. 1-8

Adrian Letchford, Tobias Preis and Helen Susannah Moat

An index for SSRN downloads pp. 9-28

Zura Kakushadze

A methodology to measure the effectiveness of academic recruitment and turnover pp. 31-42

Giovanni Abramo, D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea and Francesco Rosati

Expected number of citations and the crown indicator pp. 43-47

Lawrence Smolinsky

National, disciplinary and temporal variations in the extent to which articles with more authors have more impact: Evidence from a geometric field normalised citation indicator pp. 48-61

Mike Thelwall and Pardeep Sud

Normalization of Mendeley reader counts for impact assessment pp. 62-73

Robin Haunschild and Lutz Bornmann

Evaluating the patenting activities of pharmaceutical research organizations based on new technology indices pp. 74-81

Kiyeon Kang and So Young Sohn

Interrelations among scientific fields and their relative influences revealed by an input–output analysis pp. 82-97

Zhesi Shen, Liying Yang, Jiansuo Pei, Menghui Li, Chensheng Wu, Jianzhang Bao, Tian Wei, Zengru Di, Ronald Rousseau and Jinshan Wu

Availability of digital object identifiers (DOIs) in Web of Science and Scopus pp. 98-109

Juan Gorraiz, David Melero-Fuentes, Christian Gumpenberger and Juan-Carlos Valderrama-Zurián

The precision of the arithmetic mean, geometric mean and percentiles for citation data: An experimental simulation modelling approach pp. 110-123

Mike Thelwall

Hidden revolution of human priorities: An analysis of biographical data from Wikipedia pp. 124-131

Ilia Reznik and Vladimir Shatalov

Visualizing the intellectual structure of information science (2006–2015): Introducing author keyword coupling analysis pp. 132-150

Siluo Yang, Ruizhen Han, Dietmar Wolfram and Yuehua Zhao

Drivers of academic performance in a Brazilian university under a government-restructuring program pp. 151-161

José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho, Maria Clorinda S. Fioravanti, Luis Mauricio Bini and Thiago Fernando Rangel

A comprehensive examination of the relation of three citation-based journal metrics to expert judgment of journal quality pp. 162-173

Peter Haddawy, Saeed-Ul Hassan, Awais Asghar and Sarah Amin

The museum of errors/horrors in Scopus pp. 174-182

Fiorenzo Franceschini, Domenico Maisano and Luca Mastrogiacomo

Ranking authors using fractional counting of citations: An axiomatic approach pp. 183-199

Denis Bouyssou and Thierry Marchant

Investigating the interplay between fundamentals of national research systems: Performance, investments and international collaborations pp. 200-211

Giulio Cimini, Andrea Zaccaria and Andrea Gabrielli

Selecting publication keywords for domain analysis in bibliometrics: A comparison of three methods pp. 212-223

Guo Chen and Lu Xiao

Nondeterministic ranking of university departments pp. 224-237

Andrea Bonaccorsi and Tindaro Cicero

Using multi-level frontiers in DEA models to grade countries/territories pp. 238-253

Guoliang Yang, Per Ahlgren, Liying Yang, Ronald Rousseau and Jielan Ding

Clustering by publication patterns of senior authors in the social sciences and humanities pp. 254-272

Frederik T. Verleysen and Arie Weeren

Trajectory analysis of drug-research trends in pancreatic cancer on PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov pp. 273-285

Yoo Kyung Jeong, Go Eun Heo, Keun Young Kang, Dong Sup Yoon and Min Song

The growth process of higher education institutions and public policies pp. 286-298

Elizabeth S. Vieira and Benedetto Lepori

A geometric graph model for coauthorship networks pp. 299-311

Zheng Xie, Zhenzheng Ouyang and Jianping Li

Excellence networks in science: A Web-based application based on Bayesian multilevel logistic regression (BMLR) for the identification of institutions collaborating successfully pp. 312-327

Lutz Bornmann, Moritz Stefaner, Felix de Moya Anegón and Rüdiger Mutz