OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Scientometrics is 30. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Higher-order rich-club phenomenon in collaborative research grant networks	228
Citation structural diversity: a novel metric combining structure and semantics for literature evaluation	115
Mapping the unseen in practice: comparing latent Dirichlet allocation and BERTopic for navigating topic spaces	96
How can policy document mentions to scholarly papers be interpreted? An analysis of the underlying mentioning process	77
Life scientists’ experience with posting preprints during the COVID-19 pandemic	56
The multifaceted factors affecting the publication times of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus articles: what has changed in two decades	54
Technological innovation in GRIs, universities, and the private sector: evidence from the chemical technology network in South Korea	53
A modified gamma/Gompertz/NBD model for estimating technology lifetime	52
Retraction of Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences lacks justification	51
COVID research across the social sciences in 2020: a bibliometric approach	48
Co-follower metric on academic-social media ResearchGate: similarities between Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal winners	48
Altmetrics-based sleeping beauties: necessity or just a supplement?	47
Letter: Response to Torres-Salinas et al. on “bibliometric denialism”	43
Experience effects of patent examiners: an empirical study of the career length and citation patterns on triadic patents	41
Impact of the number and rank of coauthors on h-index and π-index. The part-impact method	38
The explanatory power of citations: a new approach to unpacking impact in science	37
Use of inactive Cochrane reviews in academia: A citation analysis	37
Positive covariation or trade-off? A cross-disciplinary investigation of shell nouns and their congruent expressions in research articles	35
Structure of university licensing networks	35
Academic information retrieval using citation clusters: in-depth evaluation based on systematic reviews	34
A large-scale semi-automated approach for assessing document-type classification errors in bibliometric databases	34
A big picture: bibliometric study of academic publications from post-Soviet countries	34
Marshall-Olkin distributions: a bibliometric study	33
Towards multiple ontologies in science mapping. A tribute to Loet Leydesdorff	33
How is public discussion as reflected in WeChat articles different from scholarly research in China? An empirical study of metaverse	32

Pasteur’s quadrant in AI: do patent-cited papers have higher scientific impact?	32
Fine-grained classification of journal articles based on multiple layers of information through similarity network fusion: The case of the Cambridge Journal of Economics	32
Integrated knowledge content in an interdisciplinary field: identification, classification, and application	31
Research networks and the initial placement of PhD holders in academia: evidence from social science fields	31
The mutual reinforcement of scientific and technological knowledge—a technology-level analysis	31