Volume 13, Number 4, November 2019
The distinction machine: Physics journals from the perspective of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic.

Yurij L. Katchanov Yulia V. Markova Natalia A. Shmatko

Emerging research topics detection with multiple machine learning models.

Shuo Xu Liyuan Hao Xin An Guancan Yang Feifei Wang

A Game Theoretic Approach to Peer Review of Grant Proposals.

Esra Eren Bayindir Mehmet Yigit Gurdal Ismail Saglam

The structure of collaboration networks: Findings from three decades of co-invention patents in Chile.

Pablo E. Pinto Andres Vallone Guillermo Honores

Exploring the forward citation patterns of patents based on the evolution of technology fields.

Su Jung Jee Minji Kwon Jung Moon Ha So Young Sohn

Bibliographically coupled patents: Their temporal pattern and combined relevance.

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

Forward search path count as an alternative indirect citation impact indicator.

Xiaorui Jiang Hai Zhuge

Measuring dissatisfaction with coauthorship: An empirical approach based on the researchers' perception.

Javier Gómez-Ferri Gregorio González-Alcaide Ramón LLopis-Goig

Do we measure novelty when we analyze unusual combinations of cited references? A validation study of bibliometric novelty indicators based on F1000Prime data.

Lutz Bornmann Alexander Tekles Helena H. Zhang Fred Y. Ye

Coping with methods for delineating emerging fields: Nanoscience and nanotechnology as a case study.

Teresa Muñoz-Écija Benjamín Vargas-Quesada Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez

Journal ranking should depend on the level of aggregation.

László Csató

Megajournal mismanagement: Manuscript decision bias and anomalous editor activity at PLOS ONE.

Alexander M. Petersen


Volume 13, Number 3, August 2019
On the Leydesdorff-Wagner-Bornmann proposal for diversity measurement.

Ronald Rousseau

Diversity measurement: Steps towards the measurement of interdisciplinarity?

Loet Leydesdorff Caroline S. Wagner Lutz Bornmann

Substantial numbers of easily identifiable illegal DOIs still exist in Scopus.

Meiting Huang Weishu Liu

How does collaboration affect researchers' positions in co-authorship networks?

Xiangjie Kong Mengyi Mao Huizhen Jiang Shuo Yu Liangtian Wan

Exploring Goodreads reviews for book impact assessment.

Kai Wang Xiaojuan Liu Yutong Han

Exploring all-author tripartite citation networks: A case study of gene editing.

Feifei Wang Chenran Jia Xiaohan Wang Junwan Liu Shuo Xu Yang Liu Chenyuyan Yang

Who posts scientific tweets? An investigation into the productivity, locations, and identities of scientific tweeters.

Houqiang Yu Tingting Xiao Shenmeng Xu Yuefen Wang

When research assessment exercises leave room for opportunistic behavior by the subjects under evaluation.

Giovanni Abramo Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo Flavia Di Costa

Analyzing linguistic complexity and scientific impact.

Chao Lu Yi Bu Xianlei Dong Jie Wang Ying Ding Vincent Larivière Cassidy R. Sugimoto Logan Paul Chengzhi Zhang

Publication counting methods for a national research evaluation exercise.

Przemyslaw Korytkowski Emanuel Kulczycki

Mapping the backbone of the Humanities through the eyes of Wikipedia.

Daniel Torres-Salinas Esteban Romero-Frías Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado

Solution by step functions of a minimum problem in L2[0, T], using generalized h- and g-indices.

Leo Egghe Ronald Rousseau

Measuring and exploring the geographic mobility of American professors from graduating institutions: Differences across disciplines, academic ranks, and genders.

Zekai He Ni Zhen Chaojiang Wu

A correction: Ranking authors using fractional counting of citations: An axiomatic approach.

Yan-An Hwang Chih-Hao Chiu Jian-Ming Shih


Volume 13, Number 2, May 2019
Rooted citation graphs density metrics for research papers influence evaluation.

Christos Giatsidis Giannis Nikolentzos Chenhui Zhang Jie Tang Michalis Vazirgiannis

The effect of open access on research quality.

Has van Vlokhoven

An empirical approach based on quantile regression for estimating citation ageing.

Sebastian Galiani Ramiro H. Gálvez

Testing for universality of Mendeley readership distributions.

Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo Samuele Di Russo

Discoverers in scientific citation data.

Gui-Yuan Shi Yi-Xiu Kong Guang-Hui Yuan Rui-Jie Wu An Zeng Matús Medo

The "invisible hand" of peer review: The implications of author-referee networks on peer review in a scholarly journal.

Pierpaolo Dondio Niccolò Casnici Francisco Grimaldo Nigel Gilbert Flaminio Squazzoni

Does the public discuss other topics on climate change than researchers? A comparison of explorative networks based on author keywords and hashtags.

Robin Haunschild Loet Leydesdorff Lutz Bornmann Iina Hellsten Werner Marx

Measuring scientific contributions with modified fractional counting.

Gunnar Sivertsen Ronald Rousseau Lin Zhang

Should citations be counted separately from each originating section?

Mike Thelwall

How to consider fractional counting and field normalization in the statistical modeling of bibliometric data: A multilevel Poisson regression approach.

Rüdiger Mutz Hans-Dieter Daniel

Comparison of two article-level, field-independent citation metrics: Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) and Relative Citation Ratio (RCR).

Amrita Purkayastha Eleonora Palmaro Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski Jeroen Baas

Ranking scientific articles based on bibliometric networks with a weighting scheme.

Yu Zhang Min Wang Florian Gottwalt Morteza Saberi Elizabeth Chang

A refined method for computing bibliographic coupling strengths.

Si Shen Danhao Zhu Ronald Rousseau Xinning Su Dongbo Wang

Public-private collaboration and scientific impact: An analysis based on Danish publication data for 1995-2013.

Carter Bloch Thomas K. Ryan Jens Peter Andersen

Long-term correlations in short, non-stationary time series: An application to international R&D collaborations.

Lorenzo Righetto Alessandro Spelta Emanuele Rabosio Fabio Pammolli

Research software citation in the Data Citation Index: Current practices and implications for research software sharing and reuse.

Hyoungjoo Park Dietmar Wolfram

Authorship analysis of specialized vs diversified research output.

Giovanni Abramo Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo Flavia Di Costa

The rhetorical structure of science? A multidisciplinary analysis of article headings.

Mike Thelwall

The value and credits of n-authors publications.

Lutz Bornmann António Osório

Biblioranking fundamental physics.

Alessandro Strumia Riccardo Torre

Are all citations worth the same? Valuing citations by the value of the citing items.

Cristiano Giuffrida Giovanni Abramo Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo

Predicting citation counts based on deep neural network learning techniques.

Ali Abrishami Sadegh Aliakbary

Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?

Kayvan Kousha Mike Thelwall


Volume 13, Number 1, February 2019
MHq indicators for zero-inflated count data - A response to the comment by Smolinsky (in press).

Lutz Bornmann Robin Haunschild Rüdiger Mutz

Odds ratios and Mantel-Haenszel quotients.

Lawrence J. Smolinsky

Challenges of measuring software impact through citations: An examination of the lme4 R package.

Kai Li Pei-Ying Chen Erjia Yan

Origin, characteristics, predominance and conceptual networks of eponyms in the bibliometric literature.

Juan Carlos Valderrama Zurián David Melero-Fuentes Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent

Using Scopus's CiteScore for assessing the quality of computer science conferences.

Lokman I. Meho

Predicting the citations of scholarly paper.

Xiaomei Bai Fuli Zhang Ivan Lee

How important is software to library and information science research? A content analysis of full-text publications.

Xuelian Pan Erjia Yan Ming Cui Weina Hua

How mean rank and mean size may determine the generalised Lorenz curve: With application to citation analysis.

Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti Tommaso Lando

Scientific community detection via bipartite scholar/journal graph co-clustering.

Chiara Carusi Giuseppe Bianchi

Standing on the shoulders of giants? - Faculty hiring in information schools.

Zhiya Zuo Kang Zhao Chaoqun Ni

Do altmetrics assess societal impact in a comparable way to case studies? An empirical test of the convergent validity of altmetrics based on data from the UK research excellence framework (REF).

Lutz Bornmann Robin Haunschild Jonathan Adams

Evaluating research and researchers by the journal impact factor: Is it better than coin flipping?

Ricardo Brito Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro

Globalised vs averaged: Bias and ranking performance on the author level.

Marcel Dunaiski Jaco Geldenhuys Willem Visser

Infinite sequences and their h-type indices.

Leo Egghe Ronald Rousseau

On the interplay between normalisation, bias, and performance of paper impact metrics.

Marcel Dunaiski Jaco Geldenhuys Willem Visser

Interdisciplinarity as diversity in citation patterns among journals: Rao-Stirling diversity, relative variety, and the Gini coefficient.

Loet Leydesdorff Caroline S. Wagner Lutz Bornmann

Peer and neighborhood effects: Citation analysis using a spatial autoregressive model and pseudo-spatial data.

Sergio Copiello

Are NIH-funded publications fulfilling the proposed research? An examination of concept-matchedness between NIH research grants and their supported publications.

Kai Li Erjia Yan

Comparing journal and paper level classifications of science.

Fei Shu Charles-Antoine Julien Lin Zhang Junping Qiu Jing Zhang Vincent Larivière

Measuring the academic reputation through citation networks via PageRank.

Francesco Alessandro Massucci Domingo Docampo

Does the normalized citation impact of universities profit from certain properties of their published documents - such as the number of authors and the impact factor of the publishing journals? A multilevel modeling approach.

Lutz Bornmann

Gender differences in research areas, methods and topics: Can people and thing orientations explain the results?

Mike Thelwall Carol Bailey Catherine Tobin Noel-Ann Bradshaw

Measuring the knowledge translation and convergence in pharmaceutical innovation by funding-science-technology-innovation linkages analysis.

Jian Du Peixin Li Qianying Guo Xiaoli Tang

Gender and research publishing in India: Uniformly high inequality?

Mike Thelwall Carol Bailey Meiko Makita Pardeep Sud Devika P. Madalli

An empirical investigation of the tribes and their territories: Are research specialisms rural and urban?

Giovanni Colavizza Thomas Franssen Thed N. van Leeuwen

On the Shapley value and its application to the Italian VQR research assessment exercise.

Camil Demetrescu Francesco Lupia Angelo Mendicelli Andrea Ribichini Francesco Scarcello Marco Schaerf

The F3-index. Valuing reviewers for scholarly journals.

Federico Bianchi Francisco Grimaldo Flaminio Squazzoni

Do researchers collaborate in a similar way to publish and to develop projects?

Jesús Clemente-Gallardo Alfredo Ferrer David Iñiguez Alejandro Rivero Gonzalo Ruiz Alfonso Tarancón

The many faces of mobility: Using bibliometric data to measure the movement of scientists.

Nicolás Robinson-García Cassidy R. Sugimoto Dakota S. Murray Alfredo Yegros-Yegros Vincent Larivière Rodrigo Costas

Predicting publication long-term impact through a combination of early citations and journal impact factor.

Giovanni Abramo Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo Giovanni Felici

Convexity in scientific collaboration networks.

Lovro Subelj Dalibor Fiala Tadej Ciglaric Luka Kronegger

The balance of knowledge flows.

Giovanni Abramo Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo Massimiliano Carloni