OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Scientometrics is 29. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The multifaceted factors affecting the publication times of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus articles: what has changed in two decades	255
A modified gamma/Gompertz/NBD model for estimating technology lifetime	136
Altmetrics-based sleeping beauties: necessity or just a supplement?	108
Technological innovation in GRIs, universities, and the private sector: evidence from the chemical technology network in South Korea	91
Letter: Response to Torres-Salinas et al. on “bibliometric denialism”	77
Higher-order rich-club phenomenon in collaborative research grant networks	76
Pasteur’s quadrant in AI: do patent-cited papers have higher scientific impact?	64
Experience effects of patent examiners: an empirical study of the career length and citation patterns on triadic patents	62
Integrated knowledge content in an interdisciplinary field: identification, classification, and application	60
Education journal rankings: a diversity-based Author Affiliation Index assessment methodology	58
The effect of social media knowledge cascade: an analysis of scientific papers diffusion	55
The mutual reinforcement of scientific and technological knowledge—a technology-level analysis	55
Co-follower metric on academic-social media ResearchGate: similarities between Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal winners	44
Academic information retrieval using citation clusters: in-depth evaluation based on systematic reviews	43
Towards multiple ontologies in science mapping. A tribute to Loet Leydesdorff	42
Examining linguistic shifts in academic writing before and after the launch of ChatGPT: a study on preprint papers	41
Mapping the unseen in practice: comparing latent Dirichlet allocation and BERTopic for navigating topic spaces	40
Academic soulmate: a memory of Loet Leydesdorff	39
Positive covariation or trade-off? A cross-disciplinary investigation of shell nouns and their congruent expressions in research articles	39
Impact of the number and rank of coauthors on h-index and π-index. The part-impact method	37
The association between topic growth and citation impact of research publications	37
How does social media mention academic papers? Evidence from WeChat in China	37
How can policy document mentions to scholarly papers be interpreted? An analysis of the underlying mentioning process	35
Research networks and the initial placement of PhD holders in academia: evidence from social science fields	34
Fine-grained classification of journal articles based on multiple layers of information through similarity network fusion: The case of the Cambridge Journal of Economics	34

Determinants of manuscript submissions to fully open access journals: elasticity to article processing charges	33
How is public discussion as reflected in WeChat articles different from scholarly research in China? An empirical study of metaverse	33
Citation structural diversity: a novel metric combining structure and semantics for literature evaluation	32
Extracting problem and method sentence from scientific papers: a context-enhanced transformer using formulaic expression desensitization	32
Life scientists’ experience with posting preprints during the COVID-19 pandemic	29
Retraction of Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences lacks justification	29