Scientometrics

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The multifaceted factors affecting the publication times of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus articles: what has changed in two decades226
A modified gamma/Gompertz/NBD model for estimating technology lifetime166
Academic soulmate: a memory of Loet Leydesdorff122
Positive covariation or trade-off? A cross-disciplinary investigation of shell nouns and their congruent expressions in research articles118
The effect of social media knowledge cascade: an analysis of scientific papers diffusion114
Co-follower metric on academic-social media ResearchGate: similarities between Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal winners84
Use of inactive Cochrane reviews in academia: A citation analysis70
Structure of university licensing networks67
The impact of IP protection on scientific output: evidence from the plant variety sector63
Determinants of manuscript submissions to fully open access journals: elasticity to article processing charges57
Extracting problem and method sentence from scientific papers: a context-enhanced transformer using formulaic expression desensitization55
The Nobel family51
The mutual reinforcement of scientific and technological knowledge—a technology-level analysis46
Pasteur’s quadrant in AI: do patent-cited papers have higher scientific impact?42
Retraction of Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences lacks justification41
Towards multiple ontologies in science mapping. A tribute to Loet Leydesdorff40
How does social media mention academic papers? Evidence from WeChat in China37
Education journal rankings: a diversity-based Author Affiliation Index assessment methodology37
Systemic gendered citation imbalance in computer science: evidence from conferences and journals37
Impact of the number and rank of coauthors on h-index and π-index. The part-impact method36
Life scientists’ experience with posting preprints during the COVID-19 pandemic36
“Get a PhD and Get Out”: is this really the silver bullet? Insights on postdoctoral academic careers from East Central Europe35
Deepening citation understanding in scientific literature via LLM-powered context extraction34
Technological innovation in GRIs, universities, and the private sector: evidence from the chemical technology network in South Korea34
A large-scale semi-automated approach for assessing document-type classification errors in bibliometric databases33
How is public discussion as reflected in WeChat articles different from scholarly research in China? An empirical study of metaverse33
Fine-grained classification of journal articles based on multiple layers of information through similarity network fusion: The case of the Cambridge Journal of Economics32
Academic information retrieval using citation clusters: in-depth evaluation based on systematic reviews31
Altmetrics-based sleeping beauties: necessity or just a supplement?31
Does Diversity of Expertise Drive Citation Impact? Evidence from Computer Science31
Experience effects of patent examiners: an empirical study of the career length and citation patterns on triadic patents30
Mapping the unseen in practice: comparing latent Dirichlet allocation and BERTopic for navigating topic spaces30
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