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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Higher-order rich-club phenomenon in collaborative research grant networks	216
Structure of university licensing networks	134
Abuse of ORCID’s weaknesses by authors who use paper mills	104
The multifaceted factors affecting the publication times of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus articles: what has changed in two decades	101
Fine-grained classification of journal articles based on multiple layers of information through similarity network fusion: The case of the Cambridge Journal of Economics	83
Technological innovation in GRIs, universities, and the private sector: evidence from the chemical technology network in South Korea	66
A modified gamma/Gompertz/NBD model for estimating technology lifetime	64
Retraction of Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences lacks justification	55
Co-follower metric on academic-social media ResearchGate: similarities between Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal winners	53
COVID research across the social sciences in 2020: a bibliometric approach	48
Extracting problem and method sentence from scientific papers: a context-enhanced transformer using formulaic expression desensitization	45
Letter: Response to Torres-Salinas et al. on “bibliometric denialism”	45
Altmetrics-based sleeping beauties: necessity or just a supplement?	45
The explanatory power of citations: a new approach to unpacking impact in science	42
Determinants of manuscript submissions to fully open access journals: elasticity to article processing charges	41
The effect of social media knowledge cascade: an analysis of scientific papers diffusion	41
Experience effects of patent examiners: an empirical study of the career length and citation patterns on triadic patents	39
A large-scale semi-automated approach for assessing document-type classification errors in bibliometric databases	39
The Nobel family	37
How can policy document mentions to scholarly papers be interpreted? An analysis of the underlying mentioning process	36
Academic information retrieval using citation clusters: in-depth evaluation based on systematic reviews	34
Marshall-Olkin distributions: a bibliometric study	34
Pasteur’s quadrant in AI: do patent-cited papers have higher scientific impact?	33
Towards multiple ontologies in science mapping. A tribute to Loet Leydesdorff	33
Integrated knowledge content in an interdisciplinary field: identification, classification, and application	32

Impact of the number and rank of coauthors on h-index and π-index. The part-impact method	32
How is public discussion as reflected in WeChat articles different from scholarly research in China? An empirical study of metaverse	32
A big picture: bibliometric study of academic publications from post-Soviet countries	32
Research networks and the initial placement of PhD holders in academia: evidence from social science fields	31
In which fields do higher impact journals publish higher quality articles?	31
The mutual reinforcement of scientific and technological knowledge—a technology-level analysis	30
Female author representation differs between journals from the United States of America, Europe, and Asia: a 10-year comparison of five medical disciplines	30
Examining linguistic shifts in academic writing before and after the launch of ChatGPT: a study on preprint papers	30