Scientometrics

1999 - 2026

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Volume 131, issue 5, 2026

Has China caught up to the U.S. in AI research? An exploration of mimetic isomorphism as a model for late industrializers pp. 2769-2800

Chao Min, Yi Zhao, Yi Bu, Yi Zhang, Ying Ding and Caroline S. Wagner

Sectoral innovation systems: intellectual transformation and emerging research trajectories pp. 2801-2827

Raheleh Fathollahi and Ebrahim Souzanchi Kashani

Cicq: a unified framework integrating citation impact and content quality for automated literature evaluation pp. 2829-2855

Xi Chen, Xuyang Meng, Shijiong Lv, Ya Zhang and Yang Chen

A two-stage cited text span recognition model based on LLM-driven data augmentation and contrastive learning pp. 2857-2883

Mingxing Han, Shiyan Ou, Jiaxuan Li, Kunhao Zhu and Weimin Nie

A hybrid framework for predicting scholarly recognition of authors using network centrality and generative AI embeddings pp. 2885-2925

Amer Zaheer, Ghulam Mustafa and Muhammad Tanvir Afzal

Selective permeability in interdisciplinary knowledge organization: evidence from communication studies pp. 2927-2959

Hongjun Zhu, Liyi Wang, Keqing Deng, Weishan Miao and Xiao-Kun Wu

Bias against novelty in China: a patent examination perspective pp. 2961-2996

Junyan Zhang, Qing Zhang and Ziyan Zhang

Same gender, shorter distance: how gender homophily relates to the geography of knowledge spillovers pp. 2997-3027

Yukai Wang, Yutao Sun and Rongkang Ma

Predatory publishing in the academic landscape: researchers’ awareness and vulnerabilities pp. 3029-3054

Fernando Almeida do Carmo, Solange Oliveira Rezende, Carla Marina Costa Paxiúba and Fábio Manoel França Lobato

How knowledge brokering organizations jointly translate scientific research into societal impact: a study based on the participation of libraries, museums, and archives in REF data pp. 3055-3077

Wang Zuorong, Wang Fanming, Shi Yujie, Wang Hao and Deng Sanhong

Operationalising responsible use of bibliometrics in research evaluation insights obtained from policy application of scientometrics at three European universities pp. 3079-3103

Wolfgang Glänzel, Juan Gorraiz, Cinzia Daraio and Koenraad Debackere

Optimising university web visibility: strategies using Wikidata identifiers and statements in Webometrics rankings pp. 3105-3143

Sanju Backory, Arshad Ahmud Iqbal Peer and Mohammad Sameer Sunhaloo

Interactions among organizations from science, technology, and industry on the basis of percolation theory: case study of pharmaceutical industry pp. 3145-3168

Shuo Xu, Zhen Liu and Xin An

Do open-access articles have a citation advantage? a comparative analysis on hybrid journals pre and post the cessation of sci-hub updates pp. 3169-3191

Gabriela Trindade Perry and Leônidas Soares Pereira

Beyond the h-index: evaluating continuous research impact using the $${{\varvec{K}}}_{{\varvec{z}}}$$ K z index pp. 3193-3217

Kiran Sharma and Ziya Uddin

The effects of interdisciplinarity and relationship link attributes on team performance from a dynamic perspective: evidence from medical informatics pp. 3219-3271

Junwan Liu, Tiansheng Zheng, Hongzhe Sui, Xiaoyun Gong and Xiaofei Guo

Evaluating aggregators and sampling strategies in GraphSAGE for dynamic link prediction in keyword co-occurrence network pp. 3273-3317

Anab Batool Kazmi and Muhammad Arshad Islam

Evolving resilience in global scientific collaboration networks: evidence from strategic management pp. 3319-3336

Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo

Can ChatGPT evaluate research environments? Evidence from REF2021 pp. 3337-3358

Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall and Elizabeth Gadd

Biblium: a Python library for comparative bibliometric analysis pp. 3359-3377

Lan Umek

Deepening citation understanding in scientific literature via LLM-powered context extraction pp. 3379-3410

Thu Huong Nguyen, Cédric Pruski and Marcos Da Silveira

Data source effects in research performance assessment of individuals and institutions: comparing OpenAlex with established bibliographic databases pp. 3411-3441

Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero and Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo

The MDPI journals in the scientific communication circuit: exploring their citation patterns pp. 3443-3483

Natalia Márquez-Bustos, María-Consuelo Zamora, Alexandra Pomares-Quimbaya and Orlando Gregorio-Chaviano

Academics’ mobility revisited: validating dimensions and unpacking inequalities pp. 3485-3513

Yuhan Wei, Xinran Zhang, Alfred Tat- Kei Ho and Xiaohui Wang

Brain mutated into “brian”: a cross-platform analysis of a common typographical error in neuroscience publications pp. 3515-3524

Andy Wai Kan Yeung

Comparing LLM and expert assessments of journal quality pp. 3525-3546

Mirka Saarela, Janne Pölönen, Anna-Kaarina Linna, Leena Wahlfors, António Correia and Tommi Kärkkäinen

Impact of large language models on peer review opinions from a fine-grained perspective: evidence from top conference proceedings in AI pp. 3547-3584

Wenqing Wu, Chengzhi Zhang, Yi Zhao and Tong Bao

Enhancing unsupervised keyword extraction in academic papers through integrating highlights with abstract pp. 3585-3621

Yi Xiang and Chengzhi Zhang

Pathways to commercializing university knowledge: perspectives from entrepreneurial ecosystems, regional innovation systems, and innovation intermediation pp. 3623-3644

Nobuya Fukugawa

Sequential patent recommendation for alliance firms: a deep learning approach integrating technological diversity and peer influence pp. 3645-3677

Zhaobin Liu, Weiwei Deng, Jicheng Zeng, WeiJing Zhu and Jian Ma

Interdisciplinarity in academic research: a keyword-based approach to knowledge diversity pp. 3679-3698

Jiajia Sun and Yajing Li

Faculty shuffle: simulating institutional gaming in research evaluation pp. 3699-3716

Giovanni Abramo, Pasquale Carotenuto, Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo and Alessio Salvatore

Where does Software Engineering research funding come from? A bibliometric study in top venues (1975-2023) pp. 3717-3740

Georgia M. Kapitsaki and Maria Papoutsoglou

Volume 131, issue 4, 2026

Technology opportunity prediction based on SAO representation learning pp. 1999-2023

Jinzhu Zhang, Xuan Zhang, Jialu Shi and Mingxia Lu

The scientific landscape in the South Caucasus: a comparative analysis of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia (2012–2024) pp. 2025-2047

Edita Gzoyan, Gunnar Sivertsen and Shushanik Sargsyan

Systemic gendered citation imbalance in computer science: evidence from conferences and journals pp. 2049-2077

Kazuki Nakajima, Yuya Sasaki, Sohei Tokuno and George Fletcher

Information characteristics of patents and academic papers for drug repurposing pp. 2079-2107

Hyunjin Shin, Seokhyun Ryu and Sungjoo Lee

Does SSH–STEM interdisciplinarity promote scientific disruption? pp. 2109-2131

Shitao Hu, Yundong Xie, Jiaqi Cheng and Yong Li

Determining quality dimensions for peer review reports using a Delphi approach pp. 2133-2183

Amanda Sizo, Adriano Lino, Álvaro Rocha and Luis Paulo Reis

Trends and impact of single-author publications among vascular surgeons in the UK pp. 2185-2192

Marianna Evangelia Kapsetaki

Mapping the current scenario of gold and green open access in India: trends and patterns from DOAJ and OpenDOAR pp. 2193-2212

Sana Zia

Mis-indexing advertisements as scholarly documents in Scopus: empirical evidence of document-type misclassification pp. 2213-2235

Bakthavachalam Elango

Can large language models assess the quality of peer review? An empirical study pp. 2237-2259

Ying Tang, Yanlan Kang, Sunsi Wu, Ruilin Zhang and Zhuanlan Sun

Not all peer reviews are significant: a dataset of exhaustive vs. trivial scientific peer reviews leveraging chain-of-thought reasoning pp. 2261-2301

Prabhat Kumar Bharti, Mihir Panchal, Viral Dalal, Mayank Agarwal and Asif Ekbal

Using language models to label clusters of scientific documents pp. 2303-2332

Dakota Murray, Chaoqun Ni, Weiye Gu and Trevor Hubbard

Detecting AI adoption at scale: a web mining and LLM methodology pp. 2333-2372

Ana Pastor-Merino, Xavier Martínez-Barbero and Josep Domenech

Exploring retrieval-augmented generation for multi-label discipline classification of academic short texts pp. 2373-2399

Duxin Shang, Yufeng Duan, Ping Bai and Jiahong Xie

Fine-tuning SciBERT to enable ASJC-based assessments of the disciplinary orientation of research collections pp. 2401-2438

Michael Gusenbauer, Jochen Endermann, Harald Huber, Simon Strasser, Andreas-Nizar Granitzer and Thomas Ströhle

Technological impact-guided technology opportunity analysis using a generative-predictive machine learning model pp. 2439-2469

Gyumin Lee and Changyong Lee

Multi-intent prediction of scientific literature based on heterogeneous graph fusion network pp. 2471-2494

Zhibang Quan, Jin Mao and Gang Li

AI-enhanced multi-dimensional measurement of technological convergence through heterogeneous graph and semantic learning pp. 2495-2522

Siming Deng, Runsong Jia, Chunjuan Luan, Mengjia Wu and Yi Zhang

Utilizing large model for content-based identification of disruptive and developmental research pp. 2523-2548

Shengzhi Huang, Wei Lu, Yong Huang, Yinpeng Liu, Qikai Cheng and Qicong Wang

Predicting patent transaction cycle using neural hazard model: evidence from technology transactions between companies in South Korea pp. 2549-2583

Jaewon Rhee, Min-Seung Kim, Sang-Hwa Lee, Sang-Hyeon Park and Tae-Eung Sung

Prediction of patent grant using interpretable citation-guided graph neural networks pp. 2585-2616

Xinyu Tong, Yonghe Lu and Kazuyuki Motohashi

Recommending university-industry collaboration: a topic-institution graph-based solution pp. 2617-2651

Lu Huang, Xiaoli Cao, Hang Ren, Guangchao Wang and Yani Wang

Personalized and diverse research topic recommendation for scholars: a graph convolutional network approach with large language model-based semantic enhancement pp. 2653-2687

Huchen Jiang, Jin Mao, Hao Wang and Zhixiang Wu

Co-Reviewer: can AI review like a human? An agentic framework for LLM-human alignment in peer review pp. 2689-2730

Prabhat Kumar Bharti, Viral Dalal and Mihir Panchal

A multi-dimensional coupling model for detecting science-technology interactions within AI pp. 2731-2767

Zhichao Ba, Leqi Zhu, Yujie Zhang, Kai Meng and Zujun Liu

Volume 131, issue 3, 2026

Research on high-value patent identification model from perspective of patent transfer pp. 1371-1392

Zengyuan Wu, Ying Li, Xiangli Han, Yuanyang Teng, Xueyan Niu and Bin He

Comparative analysis of h-index variants using an extensive dataset pp. 1393-1414

Ilyas Ahmad, Abdul Shahid, Sana Ullah Khan, Tariq Hussain, Wajahat Akbar, Razaz Waheeb Attar and Amal Hassan Alhazmi

Beyond authorship: Analyzing disciplinary differences of contribution statements using the CRediT taxonomy pp. 1415-1436

Elvira González-Salmón, Victoria Di Césare, Aoxia Xiao and Nicolas Robinson-Garcia

Enhancing academic paper recommendations using fine-grained knowledge entities and multifaceted document embeddings pp. 1437-1486

Haixu Xi, Heng Zhang and Chengzhi Zhang

Assessing structural inequality in strategic management research: a complexity-based diversity approach pp. 1487-1504

Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo

Citation distance matters: towards a new metric for evaluating journal impact pp. 1505-1524

Kate Barnes, Ahmed Bannour, Levente Török and Roland Molontay

The evolution of Baltic scientific journals pp. 1525-1548

Gergely Ferenc Lendvai, Péter Sasvári and Arūnas Gudinavičius

Improving author name disambiguation with explanations of deep learning models pp. 1549-1566

ZhiJian Fang, Yue Zhuo, Liming Tu, Lili He, Huang Chen, Jinying Xu, Ganwei Shi, Yu Cheng, Yiqun Zheng and HuaXiong Zhang

Internationalization and online availability of doctoral research in France: contrasting scholarly fields pp. 1567-1590

Matthieu Cisel, Pauline Antognelli and Nicolas Laudier

Nuclear science in North Korea: a case study of the Journal of Kim Il-Sung university, 1982–2024 pp. 1591-1633

Dae Un Hong

Human writing and machine patterns: analyzing a decade of convergence pp. 1635-1654

Eunsuk Chang

Unpacking time lags in Nobel Prize awards: a global and disciplinary perspective pp. 1655-1676

Nan Wei, Zifeng Li, Quan Gao, Yi Yu and Jing Xie

Partner diversity and post-project effort in achieving scientific novelty and impact pp. 1677-1705

Chaewon Park and Sung Joo Bae

Awakening Sleeping Beauties from articles on mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 pp. 1707-1730

Artemis Chaleplioglou, Efstathia Selinopoulou, Konstantinos Kyprianos and Alexandros Koulouris

An analysis of ChatGPT’s performance in predicting countries and regions of origin from personal names pp. 1731-1754

Paul Sebo

“Get a PhD and Get Out”: is this really the silver bullet? Insights on postdoctoral academic careers from East Central Europe pp. 1755-1799

Zsolt T. Kosztyàn, Tünde Király, Judit Sulyok, Katalin Formádi, Nóra Obermayer and Gábor Michalkó

Enhancing patent recommendations for product innovation: integrating industry relevance and technology trends with multi-view learning pp. 1801-1825

Yuwen Chen, Peihu Zhu, Weiwei Deng, Xiaoming Huang, Jian Ma and Jin Qin

Collaborating with program committee members: effects on publications in leading security conferences pp. 1827-1845

Mingye Niu, Lingyun Situ and Jin Shi

The complex ecosystem of hyperprolific authors pp. 1847-1895

Jussara M. Almeida, Alessia Antelmi, Marcos André Gonçalves and Maria Angela Pellegrino

Açaí (Euterpe spp.) and the Sustainable Development Goals: a systematic review of innovations, gaps, and challenges in the “purple gold” bioeconomy pp. 1897-1945

Bruno Teixeira, Patrícia Santos, Nathalie Cialdella and Hervé Rogez

SOPHIS: an open-access database for quantitative studies of contemporary philosophy of science pp. 1947-1978

Eugenio Petrovich, Selene Allevi, Edoardo Fazzini and Lorenzo Gandolfi

Understanding the h-index with self-citation visualizations pp. 1979-1989

Frode Eika Sandnes

Scientific collaboration without flights: Ukraine’s wartime adaptation pp. 1991-1995

Serhii Nazarovets

Correction to: Diachronic changes in the titles of medical research articles (1920–2020): length, content, formats, and syntactic structures pp. 1997-1998

Fan Pan and Manyue Luo

Volume 131, issue 2, 2026

Exploring ORCID adoption and metadata presence in Spain’s research landscape pp. 805-823

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

Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations pp. 825-844

Emanuel Kulczycki, Janne Pölönen, Mikael Laakso and Zehra Taşkın

Analysing the coverage of the University of Bologna’s bibliographic and citation metadata in OpenCitations collections pp. 845-871

Erica Andreose, Salvatore Di Marzo, Ivan Heibi, Silvio Peroni and Leonardo Zilli

How does the academia refer to open research information data sources? A review study based on OpenAlex and Microsoft Academic series pp. 873-899

Zhe Cao, Lin Zhang, Ying Huang and Robin Haunschild

Estimating transformative agreement impact on hybrid open access: a comparative large-scale study using Scopus, Web of Science and open metadata pp. 901-924

Najko Jahn

Presenting a classifier to improve the identification of research journal publications in OpenAlex pp. 925-941

Nick Haupka

A deep learning-based model for patent portfolio recommendation leveraging overall and sequential features pp. 943-969

Manru Xu, Jianshan Sun, Haifeng Ling, Thushari Silva and Jianmin He

Quantifying organisational-level climate innovation performance: measuring climate value of patent portfolios pp. 971-1006

Maximilian Elsen and Frank Tietze

Pioneering exploration in patent landscape studies: leveraging large language models and in-context learning for deeper insights pp. 1007-1035

Jianliang Yang, Mengchun Zhao, Minghui Qian, Zhian Ying, Chi Wang and Shulin Guo

Shaping scientific papers diffusion structure: academia and public in social media networks pp. 1037-1066

Yuanyuan Wang, Yang Zhang, Jianhua Hou and Bili Zheng

Measuring innovation—a composite index of innovation volume at firm level pp. 1067-1118

Aman Preet Singh and Sonia Garg

Does Diversity of Expertise Drive Citation Impact? Evidence from Computer Science pp. 1119-1146

Angelo Salatino, Francesco Osborne, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Simone Angioni and Enrico Motta

DBLP-TKT: a time-series dataset and deep learning model for academic keyword trend prediction pp. 1147-1183

Anab Batool Kazmi and Muhammad Arshad Islam

Disclosing the competitive-cooperative mechanism driving topic evolution from the perspective of topic function analysis pp. 1185-1207

Junying Chen, Wei Lu, Zhenzhen Xu, Feiyang Chen and Shengzhi Huang

Collaborative structures and research productivity: an empirical analysis with Bayesian networks pp. 1209-1236

Antonio Zinilli, Lorenzo Giammei and Emanuela Varinetti

Why scholars switch topics: cognitive search strategies, complementarity and career dynamics pp. 1237-1260

Dehu Yin and Xiaopei Liu

Predictable serendipity: how new tools turn serendipity into systematic breakthroughs pp. 1261-1284

Alexander Krauss

Reassessing Global Rankings: a critical review of ShanghaiRanking’s GRAS in Tourism and Hospitality pp. 1285-1320

Shiyu Hedy Wu, Ganghua Chen, Zhenting Li and Jigang Bao

The evaluation of retraction effect by measuring changes in citation trends before and after retraction pp. 1321-1341

Qizhi Xu, Zedi Lin, Qing Fan and Mengxiao Zhu

Comparing disciplinary classifications in SSH: organizational, channel-based, and text-based perspectives pp. 1343-1370

Cristina Arhiliuc, Raf Guns and Tim C. E. Engels

Volume 131, issue 1, 2026

Syntactic complexity variations in research article abstracts: A diachronic cross-disciplinary investigation pp. 1-30

Jihua Dong, Mengmeng Zhang and Nana Pang

Modeling submission decision behavior: the effect of relevance and value pp. 31-57

Xiaoting Xu, Juan Xie, Dongqing Lyu, Zhen Zhang, Jiang Li and Ying Cheng

Automatically investigating scientific discussions in peer review reports based on conformity score metrics pp. 59-92

Qiao Sun, Dahai Liu, Haochen Dong and Shuangfei Li

A cross-disciplinary comparison of article titles: length, form and content pp. 93-114

Zhijun Li and Yangfan Su

Measuring enterprises’ technological innovation capabilities: a method based on the combination of patent knowledge elements pp. 115-153

Xiaobo Tang, Jialin Wu, Jing Zhu and Xin Du

Societal impact of physics research: unpacking driving factors and moderating paths pp. 155-188

Chao Min, Dazhi Yun, Ding Wu, Bingyi Wu and Jianjun Sun

Self-reported and bibliometric interdisciplinarity measures rarely correspond: a survey-based comparative analysis of indicators and researcher perceptions pp. 189-208

Dag W. Aksnes, Henrik Karlstrøm and Fredrik N. Piro

Authenticity or self-advocacy? Identifying the credibility of positive words in scientific titles and abstracts pp. 209-234

Huidong Wu, Jianping Li and Dengsheng Wu

The disciplinary variations of diachronic trends of syntactic complexity in research article abstracts pp. 235-264

Wei Xiao and Xi Zhao

Exploring institutional academic genealogy in computer science through PQDT: enhancing the scientometric potential of dissertations pp. 265-289

Chenxia Meng, Yunuo Wang, Yuan Cao, Yingjie Ma and Yong Zhao

Semantic filtering meets knowledge elements: a novel approach for emerging research topics discovery pp. 291-328

Biao Zhang and Yunwei Chen

Scientific output in STEM disciplines and economic growth in the Visegrad Group: the role of industry pp. 329-352

Nikola Vasilić, Isidora Beraha, Sonja Đuričin and Dijana Štrbac

Manual and automatic paragraph-level analysis of climate change framing in academic journal editorials pp. 353-387

Nicholas Badullovich, Manfred Stede, Berfin Aktaș, Nailia Mirzakhmedova and Patrick Saint-Dizier

Gender bias in panel scores and in grant success: reanalyzing ‘sexism and nepotism in peer review’ by Wennerås and Wold pp. 389-411

Peter van den Besselaar and Charlie Mom

Analysis of ERC-linked publications: accuracy challenges with missing or incorrect grant IDs in acknowledgements pp. 413-424

Vladan Arsenijevic

The retraction problem in collaborations with Saudi Arabia: evidence from 2014–2023 pp. 425-441

Ridha Mhamdi

Citation dynamics and altmetric trends of retracted publications in Indian-funded research: pre and post retraction analysis pp. 443-464

Devanath P. R. and Rupesh Kumar A.

Examining the evolutionary patterns of scientific data management in China: an analysis of correlation between policy and research pp. 465-487

Qiaoying Yang and Jiming Hu

Data as scholarly output: addressing challenges in data citation tracking through natural language processing automation pp. 489-499

Michael Groenendyk and Laura Ivan

Evaluation model for research tendencies and performance of universities pp. 501-532

Muammer Maral

Which came first: the chicken or the egg? Analysing the bidirectionality of non-academic collaborations and scientific teams productivity pp. 533-556

Jesús de Frutos-Belizón and Natalia García-Carbonell

TextTAGC: a query-oriented scientific paper recommendation model based on temporal-aware graph convolution pp. 557-581

Chao Liu, Deyou Tang, Biyao Lv, Pingjian Zhang and Zhenye Huang

From reviews to decisions: A joint multitask aspect sentiment leveraged framework for assisting decision prediction from academic peer reviews pp. 583-608

Sandeep Kumar, Hardik Arora, Tirthankar Ghosal and Asif Ekbal

Exploring the fintech advancements in banking of Taiwan and the U.S. using patent-based topic modeling and generative topographic mapping pp. 609-645

Yu-Hsiang Hsiao and Jing-Cih Wu

The Transformative Agreement paradox: A game theory analysis of large scholarly publishers and library negotiation strategies pp. 647-664

Müge Akbulut

Emergence of power-law statistics in the co-authorship networks of Philippine physics researchers pp. 665-685

Kiona Moria Aguana and Rene C. Batac

A possible definition of the elite in a ranked population pp. 687-702

András Schubert

University journals in the global academic publishing landscape: Mapping over 19,000 diverse titles based on Ulrichsweb data pp. 703-731

Maryna Nazarovets, Mikael Laakso and Zehra Taşkın

Identifying seminal books in sociology using reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS): do the results agree with experts’ identifications? pp. 733-752

Lutz Bornmann

Common errors in bibliometric reviews and a novel method for correcting them pp. 753-791

Alexander S. McKay

When citation counts don’t count: detecting author citation discrepancies across bibliographic databases to improve research evaluations pp. 793-800

Manuel Goyanes and Enrique Orduña-Malea

Research assessment by ANECA drives green open access in Spain pp. 801-804

Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado and Daniel Torres-Salinas