OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Scientometrics is 31. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The multifaceted factors affecting the publication times of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus articles: what has changed in two decades	269
A modified gamma/Gompertz/NBD model for estimating technology lifetime	156
Altmetrics-based sleeping beauties: necessity or just a supplement?	119
Technological innovation in GRIs, universities, and the private sector: evidence from the chemical technology network in South Korea	106
Letter: Response to Torres-Salinas et al. on “bibliometric denialism”	88
Retraction of Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences lacks justification	84
Use of inactive Cochrane reviews in academia: A citation analysis	75
Life scientists’ experience with posting preprints during the COVID-19 pandemic	67
The mutual reinforcement of scientific and technological knowledge—a technology-level analysis	66
Female author representation differs between journals from the United States of America, Europe, and Asia: a 10-year comparison of five medical disciplines	61
Citation structural diversity: a novel metric combining structure and semantics for literature evaluation	58
COVID research across the social sciences in 2020: a bibliometric approach	48
Experience effects of patent examiners: an empirical study of the career length and citation patterns on triadic patents	46
Education journal rankings: a diversity-based Author Affiliation Index assessment methodology	44
Integrated knowledge content in an interdisciplinary field: identification, classification, and application	44
Towards multiple ontologies in science mapping. A tribute to Loet Leydesdorff	43
Academic soulmate: a memory of Loet Leydesdorff	42
Mapping the unseen in practice: comparing latent Dirichlet allocation and BERTopic for navigating topic spaces	42
How does social media mention academic papers? Evidence from WeChat in China	39
Positive covariation or trade-off? A cross-disciplinary investigation of shell nouns and their congruent expressions in research articles	39
The Nobel family	38
Research networks and the initial placement of PhD holders in academia: evidence from social science fields	37
A large-scale semi-automated approach for assessing document-type classification errors in bibliometric databases	37
How is public discussion as reflected in WeChat articles different from scholarly research in China? An empirical study of metaverse	37
Determinants of manuscript submissions to fully open access journals: elasticity to article processing charges	36

The impact of IP protection on scientific output: evidence from the plant variety sector	35
The association between topic growth and citation impact of research publications	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
Examining linguistic shifts in academic writing before and after the launch of ChatGPT: a study on preprint papers	33
Extracting problem and method sentence from scientific papers: a context-enhanced transformer using formulaic expression desensitization	33
The effect of social media knowledge cascade: an analysis of scientific papers diffusion	32