Journal of Informetrics

2007 - 2025

Current editor(s): Leo Egghe

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Volume 9, issue 4, 2015

A methodology to compute the territorial productivity of scientists: The case of Italy pp. 675-685

Giovanni Abramo and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

SemPathFinder: Semantic path analysis for discovering publicly unknown knowledge pp. 686-703

Min Song, Go Eun Heo and Ying Ding

Is the expertise of evaluation panels congruent with the research interests of the research groups: A quantitative approach based on barycenters pp. 704-721

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

Unravelling the performance of individual scholars: Use of Canonical Biplot analysis to explore the performance of scientists by academic rank and scientific field pp. 722-733

Adrián A. Díaz-Faes, Rodrigo Costas, M. Purificación Galindo and María Bordons

Attention decay in science pp. 734-745

Pietro Della Briotta Parolo, Raj Pan, Rumi Ghosh, Bernardo A. Huberman, Kimmo Kaski and Santo Fortunato

The relationship between the number of authors of a publication, its citations and the impact factor of the publishing journal: Evidence from Italy pp. 746-761

Giovanni Abramo and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

On a formula for the h-index pp. 762-776

Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti and Tommaso Lando

Author ranking based on personalized PageRank pp. 777-799

Michal Nykl, Michal Campr and Karel Ježek

Quality versus quantity in scientific impact pp. 800-808

Jasleen Kaur, Emilio Ferrara, Filippo Menczer, Alessandro Flammini and Filippo Radicchi

How to become an important player in scientific collaboration networks? pp. 809-825

Ashkan Ebadi and Andrea Schiffauerova

Early career grants, performance, and careers: A study on predictive validity of grant decisions pp. 826-838

Peter van den Besselaar and Ulf Sandström

Further axiomatizations of Egghe's g-index pp. 839-844

Tsuyoshi Adachi and Takumi Kongo

National research impact indicators from Mendeley readers pp. 845-859

Ruth Fairclough and Mike Thelwall

Assessing the impact of software on science: A bootstrapped learning of software entities in full-text papers pp. 860-871

Xuelian Pan, Erjia Yan, Qianqian Wang and Weina Hua

Field-normalized citation impact indicators and the choice of an appropriate counting method pp. 872-894

Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck

More precise methods for national research citation impact comparisons pp. 895-906

Ruth Fairclough and Mike Thelwall

Interpolated sub-impact factor (SIF) sequences for journal rankings pp. 907-914

Ronald Rousseau, Fang Xu and Wenbin Liu

Ranking research institutions by the number of highly-cited articles per scientist pp. 915-923

Giovanni Abramo and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

Exploring author name disambiguation on PubMed-scale pp. 924-941

Min Song, Erin Hea-Jin Kim and Ha Jin Kim

Measuring and comparing the R&D performance of government research institutes: A bottom-up data envelopment analysis approach pp. 942-953

Seonghee Lee and Hakyeon Lee

Funnel plots for visualizing uncertainty in the research performance of institutions pp. 954-961

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

Quantifying the cognitive extent of science pp. 962-973

Staša Milojević

Multiplicative versus fractional counting methods for co-authored publications. The case of the 500 universities in the Leiden Ranking pp. 974-989

Antonio Perianes-Rodriguez and Javier Ruiz-Castillo

On the stability of citation-based journal rankings pp. 990-1006

Dejan Pajić

Gender differences in scientific performance: A bibliometric matching analysis of Danish health sciences Graduates pp. 1007-1017

Tove Faber Frandsen, Rasmus Højbjerg Jacobsen, Johan A. Wallin, Kim Brixen and Jakob Ousager

Towards an early-stage identification of emerging topics in science—The usability of bibliometric characteristics pp. 1018-1033

Carolin Mund and Peter Neuhäusler

Are top-cited papers more interdisciplinary? pp. 1034-1046

Shiji Chen, Clément Arsenault and Vincent Larivière

Volume 9, issue 3, 2015

Does quality and content matter for citedness? A comparison with para-textual factors and over time pp. 419-429

Lutz Bornmann and Loet Leydesdorff

Efficiency and economies of scale and specialization in European universities: A directional distance approach pp. 430-448

Cinzia Daraio, Andrea Bonaccorsi and Leopold Simar

Compressing multiple scales of impact detection by Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy pp. 449-454

Jordan A. Comins and Thomas W. Hussey

Identifying entities from scientific publications: A comparison of vocabulary- and model-based methods pp. 455-465

Erjia Yan and Yongjun Zhu

On the growth dynamics of citations of articles by some Nobel Prize winners pp. 466-476

Keshra Sangwal

Which people use which scientific papers? An evaluation of data from F1000 and Mendeley pp. 477-487

Lutz Bornmann and Robin Haunschild

Measuring science-based science linkage and non-science-based linkage of patents through non-patent references pp. 488-498

Hui-Yun Sung, Chun-Chieh Wang, Mu-Hsuan Huang and Dar-Zen Chen

Modelling count response variables in informetric studies: Comparison among count, linear, and lognormal regression models pp. 499-513

Isola Ajiferuke and Felix Famoye

Evaluating university research: Same performance indicator, different rankings pp. 514-525

Giovanni Abramo and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

The influence of time and discipline on the magnitude of correlations between citation counts and quality scores pp. 529-541

Mike Thelwall and Ruth Fairclough

The dynamics of triads in aggregated journal–journal citation relations: Specialty developments at the above-journal level pp. 542-554

Wouter de Nooy and Loet Leydesdorff

China's global growth in social science research: Uncovering evidence from bibliometric analyses of SSCI publications (1978–2013) pp. 555-569

Weishu Liu, Guangyuan Hu, Li Tang and Yuandi Wang

A systematic analysis of duplicate records in Scopus pp. 570-576

Juan-Carlos Valderrama-Zurián, Remedios Aguilar-Moya, David Melero-Fuentes and Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent

An evaluation of collaborative research in a college of engineering pp. 577-590

Oguz Cimenler, Kingsley A. Reeves and John Skvoretz

An analysis of factors contributing to PubMed's growth pp. 592-617

Konstantinos Z. Vardakas, Grigorios Tsopanakis, Alexandra Poulopoulou and Matthew E. Falagas

Improving similarity measures of relatedness proximity: Toward augmented concept maps pp. 618-628

Elan Sasson, Gilad Ravid and Nava Pliskin

Contributory inequality alters assessment of academic output gap between comparable countries pp. 629-641

Nils T. Hagen

Predicting the long-term citation impact of recent publications pp. 642-657

Clara Stegehuis, Nelly Litvak and Ludo Waltman

Gender disparity in Polish science by year (1975–2014) and by discipline pp. 658-666

Marek Kosmulski

Rethinking the comparison of coauthorship credit allocation schemes pp. 667-673

Jinseok Kim and Jinmo Kim

Volume 9, issue 2, 2015

Increasing science and technology linkage in fuel cells: A cross citation analysis of papers and patents pp. 237-249

Mu-Hsuan Huang, Hsiao-Wen Yang and Dar-Zen Chen

Assortative mixing, preferential attachment, and triadic closure: A longitudinal study of tie-generative mechanisms in journal citation networks pp. 250-262

Tai-Quan Peng

Geometric journal impact factors correcting for individual highly cited articles pp. 263-272

Mike Thelwall and Ruth Fairclough

Problems and challenges of information resources producers’ clustering pp. 273-284

Anna Cena, Marek Gagolewski and Radko Mesiar

Quantitative analysis of the Italian National Scientific Qualification pp. 285-316

Moreno Marzolla

Publication rate expressed by age, gender and academic position – A large-scale analysis of Norwegian academic staff pp. 317-333

Kristoffer Rørstad and Dag W. Aksnes

Do PageRank-based author rankings outperform simple citation counts? pp. 334-348

Dalibor Fiala, Lovro Šubelj, Slavko Žitnik and Marko Bajec

On the uniform random upper bound family of first significant digit distributions pp. 349-358

Werner Hürlimann

Who is collaborating with whom? Part I. Mathematical model and methods for empirical testing pp. 359-372

Hildrun Kretschmer, Donald deB. Beaver, Bulent Ozel and Theo Kretschmer

Who is collaborating with whom? Part II. Application of the methods to male and to female networks pp. 373-384

Hildrun Kretschmer, Donald deB. Beaver, Bulent Ozel and Theo Kretschmer

Completing h pp. 385-397

Keith R. Dienes

Providing impact: The distribution of JCR journals according to references they contribute to the 2-year and 5-year journal impact factors pp. 398-407

Juan Miguel Campanario

Methods for the generation of normalized citation impact scores in bibliometrics: Which method best reflects the judgements of experts? pp. 408-418

Lutz Bornmann and Werner Marx

Volume 9, issue 1, 2015

Tracing database usage: Detecting main paths in database link networks pp. 1-15

Qi Yu, Ying Ding, Min Song, Sungjeon Song, Jianhua Liu and Bin Zhang

The value of experience in research pp. 16-24

Thor-Erik Sandberg Hanssen and Finn Jørgensen

Should the research performance of scientists be distinguished by gender? pp. 25-38

Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero and D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea

Relationship between altmetric and bibliometric indicators across academic social sites: The case of CSIC's members pp. 39-49

José Luis Ortega

Uncited papers, uncited authors and uncited topics: A case study in library and information science pp. 50-58

Liming Liang, Zhen Zhong and Ronald Rousseau

Unsupervised characterization of research institutions with task-force estimation pp. 59-68

Tânia F.G.G. Cova, Susana Jarmelo, Sebastião J. Formosinho, J. Sérgio Seixas de Melo and Alberto A.C.C. Pais

Understanding and modeling diverse scientific careers of researchers pp. 69-78

Tanmoy Chakraborty, Vihar Tammana, Niloy Ganguly and Animesh Mukherjee

Features of top-rated gold open access journals: An analysis of the scopus database pp. 79-89

Gianfranco Ennas and Maria Chiara Di Guardo

Trajectories of science and technology and their co-evolution in BRICS: Insights from publication and patent analysis pp. 90-101

Chan-Yuan Wong and Lili Wang

Field-normalized citation impact indicators using algorithmically constructed classification systems of science pp. 102-117

Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Ludo Waltman

Visualization and quantitative study in bibliographic databases: A case in the field of university–industry cooperation pp. 118-134

Feng Feng, Leiyong Zhang, Yuneng Du and Weiguang Wang

The relationship between the research performance of scientists and their position in co-authorship networks in three fields pp. 135-144

María Bordons, Javier Aparicio, Borja González-Albo and Adrián A. Díaz-Faes

A general conceptual framework for characterizing the ego in a network pp. 145-149

Ronald Rousseau and Star X. Zhao

Restricting the h-index to a publication and citation time window: A case study of a timed Hirsch index pp. 150-155

Michael Schreiber

The source-effort coverage of an exponential informetric process pp. 156-168

Thierry Lafouge and Abdelatif Agouzal

Visualization of co-readership patterns from an online reference management system pp. 169-182

Peter Kraker, Christian Schlögl, Kris Jack and Stefanie Lindstaedt

Distributions of scientific funding across universities and research disciplines pp. 183-196

Jiang Wu

Scientific teams: Self-assembly, fluidness, and interdependence pp. 197-207

Jian Wang and Diana Hicks

Visualizing information science: Author direct citation analysis in China and around the world pp. 208-225

Siluo Yang and Feifei Wang

The effect of data pre-processing on understanding the evolution of collaboration networks pp. 226-236

Jinseok Kim and Jana Diesner