Volume 12, Number 4, November 2018
Erratum to "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" [J. Informetr. 12 (2) (2018) 518-533].

Jonas Lindahl

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

Dengsheng Wu Lili Yuan Ruoyun Li Jianping Li

Predatory journals: Who publishes in them and why?

Selcuk Besir Demir

The bibliometric quotient (BQ), or how to measure a researcher's performance capacity: A Bayesian Poisson Rasch model.

Rüdiger Mutz Hans-Dieter Daniel

A 'power law' based method to reduce size-related bias in indicators of knowledge performance: An application to university research assessment.

Armando Calabrese Guendalina Capece Roberta Costa Francesca Di Pillo Stefania Giuffrida

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

Félix de Moya Anegón Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote Carmen López-Illescas Henk F. Moed

Evaluating university performance using reference point based composite indicators.

Samira El Gibari Trinidad Gómez Francisco Ruiz

Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Vincent Larivière, Oxford University Press (2018).

Thed N. van Leeuwen

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

Jordan A. Comins Stephanie A. Carmack Loet Leydesdorff

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

Inchae Park Byungun Yoon

Predicting research excellence at the individual level with bibliometric indicators: A rejoinder on a comment by Van den Besselaar and Sandström (2018).

Jonas Lindahl

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

Giovanni Abramo Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo Lin Zhang

Quality and quantity are not always positively correlated: A case study of Chinese economics journals.

Kun Chen Yao-yao Song Guoliang Yang

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

Alberto Martín-Martín Enrique Orduña-Malea Mike Thelwall Emilio Delgado López-Cózar

Does the concentration of scientific research funding in institutions promote knowledge output?

Zhifeng Yin Zheng Liang Qiang Zhi

Four pitfalls in normalizing citation indicators: An investigation of ESI's selection of highly cited papers.

Zhigang Hu Wencan Tian Shenmeng Xu Chunbo Zhang Xianwen Wang

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.

Eustache Mêgnigbêto

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

Yi Zhang Jie Lu Feng Liu Qian Liu Alan L. Porter Hongshu Chen Guangquan Zhang

Long live the scientists: Tracking the scientific fame of great minds in physics.

Guoyan Wang Guangyuan Hu Chuanfeng Li Li Tang

Impact Factors and the Central Limit Theorem: Why citation averages are scale dependent.

Manolis Antonoyiannakis

Information and misinformation in bibliometric time-trend analysis.

Jonathan Adams

Quantity matters, but how does it work?: A comment on Lindahl.

Peter van den Besselaar Ulf Sandström

Topological metrics in academic genealogy graphs.

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

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

Mike Thelwall

Overcitation and overrepresentation of review papers in the most cited papers.

Ruben Miranda Esther García-Carpintero


Volume 12, Number 3, August 2018
MHq indicators for zero-inflated count data - A response to Smolinsky and Marx (2018).

Lutz Bornmann Robin Haunschild Rüdiger Mutz

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

Lutz Bornmann Robin Haunschild

Missing author address information in Web of Science - An explorative study.

Weishu Liu Guangyuan Hu Li Tang

Can Microsoft Academic help to assess the citation impact of academic books?

Kayvan Kousha Mike Thelwall

Investigating the quality of interactions and public engagement around scientific papers on Twitter.

Fereshteh Didegah Niels Mejlgaard Mads Peter Sørensen

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

Jens Peter Andersen Mathias Wullum Nielsen

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.

Lutz Bornmann Jonathan Adams Loet Leydesdorff

Creativity in science and the link to cited references: Is the creative potential of papers reflected in their cited references?

Iman Tahamtan Lutz Bornmann

Topology-driven trend analysis for drug discovery.

Yanhua Lv Ying Ding Min Song Zhiguang Duan

Individual and field citation distributions in 29 broad scientific fields.

Javier Ruiz-Castillo Rodrigo Costas

Proximal advantage in knowledge diffusion: The time dimension.

Jue Wang Liwei Zhang

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.

Xiaojun Hu Ronald Rousseau

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

Alberto Martín-Martín Rodrigo Costas Thed N. van Leeuwen Emilio Delgado López-Cózar

Which US and European Higher Education Institutions are visible in ResearchGate and what affects their RG score?

Benedetto Lepori Michael Thelwall Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani

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

Xi Xiong Guoliang Yang Zhong-cheng Guan

Stochastic block model reveals maps of citation patterns and their evolution in time.

Darko Hric Kimmo Kaski Mikko Kivelä

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

Zhiya Zuo Kang Zhao

Odds ratios, risk ratios, and Bornmann and Haunschild's new indicators.

Lawrence J. Smolinsky Brian D. Marx

Technological research in the EU is less efficient than the world average. EU research policy risks Europeans' future.

Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro Ricardo Brito

Comparing scientific and technological impact of biomedical research.

Qing Ke

Becoming Metric-Wise: A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers, Ronald Rousseau, Leo Egghe and Raf Guns, Elsevier/Chandos Publishing (2018) 385 pages.

Peter Ingwersen

Author ranking evaluation at scale.

Marcel Dunaiski Jaco Geldenhuys Willem Visser

The memory of science: Inflation, myopia, and the knowledge network.

Raj Kumar Pan Alexander M. Petersen Fabio Pammolli Santo Fortunato

How to evaluate rankings of academic entities using test data.

Marcel Dunaiski Jaco Geldenhuys Willem Visser

The relationships between distance factors and international collaborative research outcomes: A bibliometric examination.

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

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

Houqiang Yu Shenmeng Xu Tingting Xiao

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

Lutz Bornmann Werner Marx

Revisiting the scientometric conceptualization of impact and its measurement.

Giovanni Abramo

The life cycle of altmetric impact: A longitudinal study of six metrics from PlumX.

José Luis Ortega

Ranking dynamics and volatility.

Carlos García-Zorita Ronald Rousseau Sergio Marugan-Lazaro Elías Sanz-Casado


Volume 12, Number 2, May 2018
A spatial scientometric analysis of the publication output of cities worldwide.

György Csomós

Towards a multi-paradigmatic, value free informetrics: A reply to Paul Wouters' book review "The failure of a paradigm".

Henk F. Moed

The failure of a paradigm.

Paul Wouters

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.

Jonas Lindahl

Ranking scholars: A measure representation.

Casilda Lasso de la Vega Oscar Volij

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

Alberto Martín-Martín Enrique Orduña-Malea Emilio Delgado López-Cózar

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

Xuelian Pan Erjia Yan Ming Cui Weina Hua

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

Henry Small

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

Dengsheng Wu Jing Li Xiaoli Lu Jianping Li

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

Robin Haunschild Hermann Schier Werner Marx Lutz Bornmann

Dimensions: A competitor to Scopus and the Web of Science?

Mike Thelwall

Ranking journals using social choice theory methods: A novel approach in bibliometrics.

Andrey Subochev Fuad Aleskerov Vladimir Pislyakov

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

Gabriel-Alexandru Vîiu


Volume 12, Number 1, February 2018
Research universities on the ResearchGate social networking site: An examination of institutional differences, research activity level, and social networks formed.

Weiwei Yan Yin Zhang

Funding, evaluation, and the performance of national research systems.

Ulf Sandström Peter van den Besselaar

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

Meijun Liu Xiao Hu Yuandi Wang Dongbo Shi

Effect of publication month on citation impact.

Paul Donner

Research assessment by percentile-based double rank analysis.

Ricardo Brito Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro

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

Li Zhai Xiangbin Yan Guojing Zhang

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

Kayvan Kousha Mike Thelwall Mahshid Abdoli

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

Chao Yang Cui Huang Jun Su

Missing links: Timing characteristics and their implications for capturing contemporaneous technological developments.

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

Who benefits from a country's scientific research?

Giovanni Abramo Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo

Could scientists use Altmetric.com scores to predict longer term citation counts?

Mike Thelwall Tamara Nevill

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

Jaehyeong An Kyuwoong Kim Letizia Mortara Sungjoo Lee

Core elements in the process of citing publications: Conceptual overview of the literature.

Iman Tahamtan Lutz Bornmann

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

Zohreh Zahedi Stefanie Haustein

Network assembly of scientific communities of varying size and specificity.

Daniel T. Citron Samuel F. Way

A scalable and adaptive method for finding semantically equivalent cue words of uncertainty.

Chaomei Chen Min Song Go Eun Heo

Lognormal distribution of citation counts is the reason for the relation between Impact Factors and Citation Success Index.

Zhesi Shen Liying Yang Jinshan Wu

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

Peter Sjögårde Per Ahlgren

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

Nadine Rons

Hidden connections: Network effects on editorial decisions in four computer science journals.

Giangiacomo Bravo Mike Farjam Francisco Grimaldo Moreno Aliaksandr Birukou Flaminio Squazzoni

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

Kai Li Erjia Yan

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

Yaniv Reingewertz Carmela Lutmar

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

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

Reference density trends in the major disciplines.

Susana Sánchez-Gil Juan Gorraiz David Melero-Fuentes

Double rank analysis for research assessment.

Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro Ricardo Brito

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

Guoliang Yang Hirofumi Fukuyama Yao-yao Song

Microsoft Academic automatic document searches: Accuracy for journal articles and suitability for citation analysis.

Mike Thelwall