Scientometrics

Article	Citations
The multifaceted factors affecting the publication times of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus articles: what has changed in two decades	190
A modified gamma/Gompertz/NBD model for estimating technology lifetime	144
Altmetrics-based sleeping beauties: necessity or just a supplement?	135
Technological innovation in GRIs, universities, and the private sector: evidence from the chemical technology network in South Korea	124
Academic soulmate: a memory of Loet Leydesdorff	106
Positive covariation or trade-off? A cross-disciplinary investigation of shell nouns and their congruent expressions in research articles	99
The effect of social media knowledge cascade: an analysis of scientific papers diffusion	76
Co-follower metric on academic-social media ResearchGate: similarities between Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal winners	73
Female author representation differs between journals from the United States of America, Europe, and Asia: a 10-year comparison of five medical disciplines	69
Use of inactive Cochrane reviews in academia: A citation analysis	69
COVID research across the social sciences in 2020: a bibliometric approach	63
Experience effects of patent examiners: an empirical study of the career length and citation patterns on triadic patents	57
Structure of university licensing networks	51
The impact of IP protection on scientific output: evidence from the plant variety sector	50
A large-scale semi-automated approach for assessing document-type classification errors in bibliometric databases	47
Examining linguistic shifts in academic writing before and after the launch of ChatGPT: a study on preprint papers	41
Determinants of manuscript submissions to fully open access journals: elasticity to article processing charges	41
How can policy document mentions to scholarly papers be interpreted? An analysis of the underlying mentioning process	40
Extracting problem and method sentence from scientific papers: a context-enhanced transformer using formulaic expression desensitization	39
Fine-grained classification of journal articles based on multiple layers of information through similarity network fusion: The case of the Cambridge Journal of Economics	36
The Nobel family	34
How is public discussion as reflected in WeChat articles different from scholarly research in China? An empirical study of metaverse	34
The mutual reinforcement of scientific and technological knowledge—a technology-level analysis	33
Pasteur’s quadrant in AI: do patent-cited papers have higher scientific impact?	32
How does social media mention academic papers? Evidence from WeChat in China	31

Education journal rankings: a diversity-based Author Affiliation Index assessment methodology	31
Life scientists’ experience with posting preprints during the COVID-19 pandemic	30
Can small and reasoning large language models score journal articles for research quality and do averaging and few-shot help?	29
In which fields do higher impact journals publish higher quality articles?	29
Does Diversity of Expertise Drive Citation Impact? Evidence from Computer Science	28
Research networks and the initial placement of PhD holders in academia: evidence from social science fields	28
Impact of the number and rank of coauthors on h-index and π-index. The part-impact method	28
“Get a PhD and Get Out”: is this really the silver bullet? Insights on postdoctoral academic careers from East Central Europe	28
Letter: Response to Torres-Salinas et al. on “bibliometric denialism”	27
Higher-order rich-club phenomenon in collaborative research grant networks	27
Towards multiple ontologies in science mapping. A tribute to Loet Leydesdorff	27
Systemic gendered citation imbalance in computer science: evidence from conferences and journals	27
Citation structural diversity: a novel metric combining structure and semantics for literature evaluation	27
Academic information retrieval using citation clusters: in-depth evaluation based on systematic reviews	26
Retraction of Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences lacks justification	26
2SCE-4SL: a 2-stage causality extraction framework for scientific literature	26
Comeback or dropout: study of discontinued researchers at early career stage	26
Combining dissimilarity measures for quantifying changes in research fields	26
Mapping the unseen in practice: comparing latent Dirichlet allocation and BERTopic for navigating topic spaces	26
The evolution of scientific writing: an analysis of 20 million abstracts over 70 years in health and medical science	26
SRRS: Design and Development of a Scholarly Reciprocal Recommendation System	26
Research on bibliometrics and the World’s leading universities	25
Bibliometric analysis of Sci-Hub downloads by Egyptian researchers	25
The diversity and Triple Helix interactions among universities, industries and governments: case of climate change field	24
Breach of academic values and misconduct: the case of Sci-Hub	24
Impact of interdisciplinarity on disruptive innovation: the moderating role of collaboration pattern and collaboration size	23
CiteFusion: an ensemble framework for citation intent classification harnessing dual-model binary couples and SHAP analyses	22
International mobility boosts scientific careers: a synthetic control analysis of Brazilian researchers	22
Web of Science Core Collection’s coverage expansion: the forgotten Arts & Humanities Citation Index?	22
Does university–industry–government collaboration in research gets higher citation and altmetric impact? A case study from India	22
Bias against novelty in China: a patent examination perspective	22
Journal article classification using abstracts: a comparison of classical and transformer-based machine learning methods	21
The role of non-scientific factors vis-à-vis the quality of publications in determining their scholarly impact	21
Gender representation in textbooks: a bibliometric study	21
The interplay of author and editor gender in acceptance delays: evidence from accounting journals	21
Can open access increase LIS research’s policy impact? Using regression analysis and causal inference	21
Rescaling the disruption index reveals the universality of disruption distributions in science	21
On the possibilities of presenting the research performance of an institute over a long period of time: the case of the Institute of Information Science at the University of Graz in Austria	21
Exploring institutional academic genealogy in computer science through PQDT: enhancing the scientometric potential of dissertations	20
From bench to bedside: determining what drives academic citations in clinical trials	20
Context-aware citation recommendation of scientific papers: comparative study, gaps and trends	20
The three cultures in American science: publication productivity in physics, history and economics	20
Mapping science through editorial board interlocking: connections and distance between fields of knowledge and institutional affiliations	20
Disclosing the competitive-cooperative mechanism driving topic evolution from the perspective of topic function analysis	20
A comparative analysis of local similarity metrics and machine learning approaches: application to link prediction in author citation networks	20
Gender disparities in accounting academia: analysis from the lens of publications	20
Analysis of the impact of research output on economic growth with using a multivariate random effects model	20
Understanding the sustainability of supply–demand in peer review system: an analysis based on scholars’ research and review activities	20
Inventor bibliographic-patent-coupling analysis and inventor-patent-classification-coupling analysis: a comparative analysis based on NPE	19
Mitigating consequences of prestige in citations of publications	19

Combining informetrics and trend analysis to understand past and current directions in electronic design automation	19
Editorial response letter to Abramo et al. Scientometrics, 2022	19
The evolution of order of authorship based on researchers’ age	19
Collaboration strategies and corresponding authorship in Agronomy research of Brazilian academic and non-academic institutions	19
Predicting patent transaction cycle using neural hazard model: evidence from technology transactions between companies in South Korea	19
Authenticity or self-advocacy? Identifying the credibility of positive words in scientific titles and abstracts	19
Adjectives and adverbs in life sciences across 50 years: implications for emotions and readability in academic texts	19
Fragmentation of national research systems: the case of the Netherlands	19
An assessment of the quality of the search strategy: a case of bibliometric studies published in business and economics	19
Which older publications are still highly cited in the field of bibliometrics? Contemporary bibliometric citation classics	19
Scientific collaboration of post-Soviet countries: the effects of different network normalizations	18
Bridging borders or widening gaps? The dynamics of European scientific collaboration networks	18
Predicting collaborative relationship among scholars by integrating scholars’ content-based and structure-based features	18
Hidden limitations of analyses via alternative bibliometric services	18
A decadal study on identifying latent topics and research trends in open access LIS journals using topic modeling approach	18
Is Romania’s surge in MDPI publications a success story? A response to Nazarovets (2024)	18
Examining scholarly communication on X (Twitter): insights from participants tweeting COVID-19 and ChatGPT publications	17
Academic co-authorship is a risky game	17
The Influence of Technostress, Learning Goal Orientation, and Perceived Team Learning Climate on Intra-Team Knowledge Sharing and Innovative Practices Among ICT-Enabled Team Members	17
Knowledge discovery from the texts of Nobel Prize winners in literature: sentiment analysis and Latent Dirichlet Allocation	17
Does early publishing in top journals really predict long-term scientific success in the business field?	17
ABCal: a Python package for author bias computation and scientometric plotting for reviews and meta-analyses	17
A network-driven study of hyperprolific authors in computer science	16
National contexts and gendered research performance: a study of Armenia and Italy	16
Measuring the impact of health research data in terms of data citations by scientific publications	16
Leadership and international collaboration on COVID-19 research: reducing the North–South divide?	16
Açaí (Euterpe spp.) and the Sustainable Development Goals: a systematic review of innovations, gaps, and challenges in the “purple gold” bioeconomy	16
Can ChatGPT be used to predict citation counts, readership, and social media interaction? An exploration among 2222 scientific abstracts	16
On the use of factor analysis for bibliometric indicators	16
A decades—long partnership: examining the Cuba–China scientific collaboration	16
The role of artificial intelligence in scientific research: a classification framework with case-based empirical insights	16
Analyzing the influence of prolific collaborations on authors productivity and visibility	16
Exploring the applicability of large language models to citation context analysis	16
Enhancing keyphrase extraction from academic articles using section structure information	15
Detecting and analyzing missing citations to published scientific entities	15
How similar are field-normalized citation impact scores obtained from OpenAlex and three popular commercial databases? An empirical comparison based on large German universities	15
Disentangling a secret web of online scholarly interactions involving the research of top scholars in the field of communication: International Communication Association (ICA) Fellows	15
Predicting the variation in stance-taking: the use of evaluative-that in English as a lingua franca academic writing	15
Evaluating book impacts via integrating multi-source reviews	15
A study of entrepreneur and innovative university index by entropy-based grey relational analysis and PROMETHEE	15
RefCit2vec: embedding models considering references and citations for measuring document similarity	15
Assessment of subject-normalized comprehensiveness of research-intensive universities	15
Between panic and motivation: did the first wave of COVID-19 affect scientific publishing in Mediterranean countries?	15
Are questionable research practices considered a successful career strategy? A novel implementation of the implicit association test	15
Influence of political tensions on scientific productivity, citation impact, and knowledge combinations	14
The oligopoly of open access publishing	14
Discovering AI adoption patterns from big academic graph data	14
Analyzing journal category assignment using a paper-level classification system: multidisciplinary sciences journals	14
Gender of gender studies: examining regional and gender-based disparities in scholarly publications	14
Bibliometric analysis of surface water detection and mapping using remote sensing in South America	14
The unprincipled principal: how Romania’s inconsistent research reform impacted scientific output	14
Understanding the h-index with self-citation visualizations	14
Education quality, internet access in schools, and research performance in management and accounting domains: a cross-country investigation	14
Largest contribution to LIS by external disciplines as measured by the characteristics of research articles	14
Research assessment by ANECA drives green open access in Spain	14
Disciplinary collaboration rates in the social sciences and humanities: what is the influence of classification type?	14
Evolving patterns of extreme publishing behavior across science	14
The impact of the virtualization of scholarly conferences on the gender structure of conference contributors	14
Evolution analysis of cross-domain collaborative research topic: a case study of cognitive-based product conceptual design	14
Beyond authorship: Analyzing disciplinary differences of contribution statements using the CRediT taxonomy	14
Expressions of confusion in research articles: a diachronic cross-disciplinary investigation	14
Exploring ORCID adoption and metadata presence in Spain’s research landscape	14
Research patterns in communication (2009–2019): testing female representation and productivity differences, within the most cited authors and the field	14
The influence of research collaboration on citation impact: the countries in the European Innovation Scoreboard	14
Focused or divided? Collaborative attention and technological orientations in technology transfer	14
Comparative science mapping: a novel conceptual structure analysis with metadata	13
Words matter: how ecologists discuss managed and non-managed bees and birds	13
Scientific output in STEM disciplines and economic growth in the Visegrad Group: the role of industry	13
The influence of grant renewal on research content: evidence from NIH-funded PIs	13
Do collaborations with Nobel laureates influence candidates to win the Nobel prize: from the analysis of Nobel laureates’ peer effects	13
Can we identify prominent scholars using ChatGPT?	13
Empirical evidence on the relationship between research and teaching in academia	13
Reference coverage analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus	13
Understanding differences of the OA uptake within the German university landscape (2010–2020): part 1—journal-based OA	13
Normalization of direct citations for clustering in publication-level networks: evaluation of six approaches	13
Medical articles in questionable journals are less impactful than those in non-questionable journals but still extensively cited	13
Application of k-means clustering algorithm to improve effectiveness of the results recommended by journal recommender system	13
John Mearsheimer’s academic roots: a reference publication year spectroscopy of a political scientist’s oeuvre	13
Are acceptance and publication times longer in primary health care journals compared to internal medicine journals? A comparative study of 117 high-impact journals	13
Manual and automatic paragraph-level analysis of climate change framing in academic journal editorials	13

Mapping the research landscape of Covid-19 from social sciences perspective: a bibliometric analysis	13
The effect of using ORCID iD on improving the visibility and retrieval of Arab University publications	13
Human writing and machine patterns: analyzing a decade of convergence	13
A validation study on the factors affecting the practice modes of open peer review	13
How to use assignments of United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) to scientific papers in research evaluation? The proposal of a gold standard combining assignments from different data pro	12
Search strategies and high-tech firms’ innovation performance: the moderating effects of government subsidies and market-supporting institutions	12
Assessing the effects of publication requirements for professorship on research performance and publishing behaviour of Ukrainian academics	12
Correction: Using the weighted Lorenz curve to represent balance in collaborations: the BIC indicator	12
Identifying the driving factors of word co-occurrence: a perspective of semantic relations	12
Hot streaks in the music industry: identifying and characterizing above-average success periods in artists’ careers	12
Encoding the citation life-cycle: the operationalization of a literature-aging conceptual model	12
The scientometrics and reciprocality underlying co-authorship panels in Google Scholar profiles	12
Normalising the H-index: the equal quantity H-index for journals	12
The “leaky pipeline” in the academic growth: evidence from excellent young scientists of the NSFC	12
The role of inter- and intra-organisational networks in innovation: towards requisite variety	12
Formulation of rules for the scientific community using deep learning	12
Improving our understanding of open access: how it relates to funding, internationality of research and scientific leadership	12
A model for reference list length of scholarly articles	12
The sex gap in sports and exercise medicine research: who does research on females?	12
A Deep Multi-Tasking Approach Leveraging on Cited-Citing Paper Relationship For Citation Intent Classification	12
Identifying interdisciplinary research in research projects	12
Analysing academic paper ranking algorithms using test data and benchmarks: an investigation	12
Analysis of the relationships among paper citation and its influencing factors: a Bayesian network-based approach	12
GDP baseline ranking of scientific performance	12
Research evaluation with ChatGPT: is it age, country, length, or field biased?	12
Cuban collaboration networks in LIS research at macro and meso levels	12
Gender bias in panel scores and in grant success: reanalyzing ‘sexism and nepotism in peer review’ by Wennerås and Wold	11
Impact factions: assessing the citation impact of different types of open access repositories	11
Are female researchers more efficient? An analysis of gender in a Spanish technological university	11
Comparing examiner citations and applicant citations: insights into technology evolution	11
Knowledge production patterns of China and the US: quantum technology	11
Will patent family be dormant? Research on the identification and characteristics of sleeping beauty’s patent family	11
Selective permeability in interdisciplinary knowledge organization: evidence from communication studies	11
Understanding the meanings of citations using sentiment, role, and citation function classifications	11
Is smart specialisation monopolising the research on the EU cohesion policy? Evidence from a bibliometric analysis	11
Correction: Research topic flows in co‑authorship networks	11
First to know: profiling readers of early-access articles in the field of AI	11
Who tweets about quantum physics research on Twitter: the impact of user types, tweet content and interaction patterns	11
pyBiblioNet: a Python library for a comprehensive network-based bibliometric analysis	11
Features, techniques and evaluation in predicting articles’ citations: a review from years 2010–2023	11
Influence of cultural and socioeconomic factors on scientific production: a statistical analysis of the h-index	11
Examining the role of co-first authorship in scientific collaboration: a quantitative study	11
Automatically investigating scientific discussions in peer review reports based on conformity score metrics	11
Do prolific arts and humanities authors have publishing preferences?	11
New concept of the affinity between research fields using academic journal data in Scopus	11
Research evaluation metrics comparison: does citation or citation context count differ from citation context similarity metric?	11
Comparison of disciplines, topics, and methods in studies in Journal of Informetrics and Scientometrics from 2016 to 2020	11
Author gender and citation categorization: a study of high-impact medical journals	11
National research impact is driven by global collaboration, not rising performance	11
Examining the use of supportive and contrasting citations in different disciplines: a brief study using Scite (scite.ai) data	11
Peer nominations as scientometrics	10
CLARA: citation and similarity-based author ranking	10
Is ORCID a reliable source for CV analysis? Exploring the data availability of ORCID academic profiles	10
Recognition and longevity: an examination of award timing and lifespan in Nobel laureates	10
Is there a differentiated gender effect of collaboration with super-cited authors? Evidence from junior researchers in economics	10
Response to Dr. Chou’s comment on “the state of social science research on COVID-19”	10
COVID-19 and the scientific publishing system: growth, open access and scientific fields	10
Evaluating aggregators and sampling strategies in GraphSAGE for dynamic link prediction in keyword co-occurrence network	10
Do two wrongs make a right? Measuring the effect of publications on science careers	10
The indexation of retracted literature in seven principal scholarly databases: a coverage comparison of dimensions, OpenAlex, PubMed, Scilit, Scopus, The Lens and Web of Science	10
Will patents with more interdisciplinary scientific knowledge have higher technological impact? Empirical evidence from USPTO patents	10
Modelling the triple helix system innovation of the main economies from Latin America: a coalitional game theory approach	10
The evolution of Baltic scientific journals	10
The influence of discipline consistency between papers and published journals on citations: an analysis of Chinese papers in three social science disciplines	10
Presence and consequences of positive words in scientific abstracts	10
Semantic Academic Profiler (SAP): a framework for researcher assessment based on semantic topic modeling	10
Hildrun Kretschmer (1947–2024)	10
The impact of brain-drain in country ranking: the case of computer science	10
Open access improves the dissemination of science: insights from Wikipedia	10
Generalized g-index	10
In search of understanding about knowledge and learning on innovation performance	10
Visualizing hidden communities of interest: A case-study analysis of topic-based social networks in astrobiology	10
The impact of team compositions on disruptive and novel research in large-scale research infrastructures	10
Research assessment under debate: disentangling the interest around the DORA declaration on Twitter	10
The evaluation of retraction effect by measuring changes in citation trends before and after retraction	10
GAN-CITE: leveraging semi-supervised generative adversarial networks for citation function classification with limited data	10
Retrieval strategy and possible explanations for the abnormal growth of research publications: re-evaluating a bibliometric analysis of climate change	10
Community broker effects: evidence from Japanese research networks	10
Co-Reviewer: can AI review like a human? An agentic framework for LLM-human alignment in peer review	10
Global retractions due to randomly generated content: Characterization and trends	10
Evaluating the wisdom of scholar crowds from the perspective of knowledge diffusion	10
Scientific software as geopolitics: evidence of national attribution bias from a large-scale replication in bibliometrics	10
Longitudinal patterns of scientific collaboration in doctoral studies	10
Homophily and its effects on collaborations and repeated collaborations: a study across scientific fields	10
Standing on the shoulder of data: data-driven research boosts scientific innovation	9
Combining reference point based composite indicators with data envelopment analysis: application to the assessment of universities	9
Skewed distributions of scientists’ productivity: a research program for the empirical analysis	9
Mapping and comparing the technology evolution paths of scientific papers and patents: an integrated approach for forecasting technology trends	9
Editorial: artificial intelligence for scientometrics (Part I)	9
biblioverlap: an R package for document matching across bibliographic datasets	9
Presenting a classifier to improve the identification of research journal publications in OpenAlex	9
Altmetric data quality analysis using Benford’s law	9
Combining patent mapping and hyperlink prediction to discover technology opportunities	9
A social network analysis of academic journals in public administration in the early twenty-first century: examining journal level bibliometrics with network analysis	9
Diachronic change in lexical complexity of research articles (1970–2020): economics vs. medicine	9