Journal of Informetrics

Article	Citations
Which papers cited which tweets? An exploratory analysis based on Scopus data	47
Accidentality in journal citation patterns	41
Towards firm-specific technology opportunities: A rule-based machine learning approach to technology portfolio analysis	40
Research complexity increases with scientists’ academic age: Evidence from library and information science	38
A multi-dimensional indicator system for identifying highly innovative papers: a knowledge absorption, creation, and diffusion perspective	38
Revision and academic impact: A case study of bioRxiv preprint papers	38
An approach for identifying complementary patents based on deep learning	36
Boosting science through state support: Armenian state grants as a driver of scientific and international advancement	36
MatrixSim: A new method for detecting the evolution paths of research topics	31
Measuring knowledge exploration distance at the patent level: Application of network embedding and citation analysis	30
Metrics and mechanisms: Measuring the unmeasurable in the science of science	30
How do network embeddedness and knowledge stock influence collaboration dynamics? Evidence from patents	30
An ESTs detection research based on paper entity mapping: Combining scientific text modeling and neural prophet	29
Distinguishing transformative from incremental clinical evidence: A classifier of clinical research using textual features from abstracts and citing sentences	29
Rank-frequency data and impact in a continuous model: Introducing impact bundles	28
Enhancing the prediction of publications’ long-term impact using early citations, readerships, and non-scientific factors	27
Corrigendum to “Understanding the domain development through a word status observation model” [Journal of Informetrics 17 (2023) 1–19/101395]	26
Editorial Board	25
Detecting emerging technologies and their evolution using deep learning and weak signal analysis	24
Scientific creativity patterns in scholars’ academic careers: Evidence from PubMed	24
Delayed citation impact of interdisciplinary research	24
Effects of research funding on the academic impact and societal visibility of scientific research	23
International collaboration leading to high citations: Global impact or home country effect?	23
A directed collaboration network for exploring the order of scientific collaboration	23
Gender differences in dropout rate: From field, career status, and generation perspectives	23

Citation bias in measuring knowledge flow: Evidence from the web of science at the discipline level	22
Is open access disrupting the journal business? A perspective from comparing full adopters, partial adopters, and non-adopters	22
Measuring the effect of reviewers on manuscript change: A study on a sample of submissions to Royal Society journals (2006–2017)	22
Exploring the change in scientific readability following the release of ChatGPT	21
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on gendered research productivity and its correlates	20
Cover effects on social attention: Evidence from Cell Biology, Multidisciplinary Chemistry, and Applied Physics	20
Corrigendum to “Sex differences in research productivity among doctoral students in Sweden: A quantile regression approach” [Journal of Informetrics 19 (2025) 101702]	20
Expedited editorial decision in COVID-19 pandemic	19
How do intra- and inter-organisational collaboration affect research performance? Evidence from German universities	19
Exploration, exploitation and funding success: Evidence from junior scientists supported by the Chinese Young Scientists Fund	19
Drivers and penalties of retraction: An empirical study of Chinese medical researchers	18
Modelling informetric data using quantile functions	18
Estimating citation gaps by team size: Evidence from a cross-disciplinary analysis	18
Do conference-journal articles receive more citations? A case study in physics	18
Generalization of bibliographic coupling and co-citation using the node split network	18
How Boundary-spanning Paper Sparkles Citation: From Citation Count to Citation Network	18
Researcher influence prediction (ResIP) using academic genealogy network	18
Researching deeply or broadly? The effects of scientists’ research strategies on disruptive performance over their careers	17
Does society show differential attention to researchers based on gender and field?	17
Measuring knowledge complexity in the biomedical domain based on a question-method knowledge representation model	17
Revealing the research differences of AI between China and the U.S using semantic deviation	16
Is higher team gender diversity correlated with better scientific impact?	16
Does reusing scientific datasets reduce the impact of the papers?	16
BiblioMerge: A Python-based automated tool to merge WoS and Scopus bibliographic data, compatible with Biblioshiny, BibExcel, VOSviewer, SciMAT and ScientoPy	16
Trend analysis of the proportional allocation of funding by gender in Spanish National Research Projects: A study by disciplines and staff positions	16
How highly cited papers affect LIS journal impact factor? An empirical study	16
Assessing scientific output through self-evaluation: Evidence from four social science fields	15
Investigating the research output of institutions	15
Comparing semantic representation methods for keyword analysis in bibliometric research	15
A multi-entity reinforced main path analysis: Heterogeneous network embedding considering knowledge proximity	15
A multiple k-means cluster ensemble framework for clustering citation trajectories	15
Does open data have the potential to improve the response of science to public health emergencies?	14
From weak to strong signals: Exploring R&D projects with research equipment	14
A comprehensive comparative analysis of publication monopoly phenomenon in scientific journals	14
Automated generation of research workflows from academic papers: a full-text mining framework	14
The increasing dominance of repeated citations from collaborative research groups in science	14
Do scholars' collaborative tendencies impact the quality of their publications? A generalized propensity score matching analysis	14
Asymmetry of social interactions and its role in link predictability: The case of coauthorship networks	13
Rethinking the effect of inter-gender collaboration on research performance for scholars	13
Quantifying knowledge synchronization with the network-driven approach	13
Deep representation learning of scientific paper reveals its potential scholarly impact	13
Editorial Board	13
When career-boosting is on the line: Equity and inequality in grant evaluation, productivity, and the educational backgrounds of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions individual fellows in social sciences an	13
A framework armed with node dynamics for predicting technology convergence	13
The statistical nature of h	13
Modeling citation concentration through a mixture of Leimkuhler curves	13
Uncovering milestone papers: A network diffusion and game theory approach	12
Editorial Board	12
Does the author’s collaboration mode lead to papers’ different citation impacts? An empirical analysis based on propensity score matching	12
Nobel begets Nobel in economics	12

Measuring risk in science	12
Determination and characteristics of the most visible authors in multi-author publications	12
Ungendered writing: Writing styles are unlikely to account for gender differences in funding rates in the natural and technical sciences	12
Evolution and effect of meeting abstracts in JCR journals	11
New components and combinations: The perspective of the internal collaboration networks of scientific teams	11
The motivations for and effects of modified fractional counting	11
Bibliographic coupling networks reveal the advantage of diversification in scientific projects	11
Weak ties in scientific cooperation contribute to scientific innovation	11
Corrigendum to [‘To tweet or not to tweet?’ A study of the use of Twitter by scholarly book publishers in Social Sciences and Humanities’, Journal of Informetrics, Volume15, (2021) 1–14/Article101170]	11
Editorial Board	10
Entropy, heterogeneity, and their impact on technology progress	10
Influence of interdisciplinarity on scientific impact: The case of climate change field	10
How to detect the sleeping beauty papers and princes in technology considering indirect citations?	10
Predicting the citation count and CiteScore of journals one year in advance	10
Multi-agent simulation of team stability evolution: A complexity science perspective	10
Patent landscape and key technology interaction roadmap using graph convolutional network – Case of mobile communication technologies beyond 5G	10
Annotating scientific uncertainty: A comprehensive model using linguistic patterns and comparison with existing approaches	10
Understanding writing styles of scientific papers in the IS-LS domain: Evidence from abstracts over the past three decades	10
Corrigendum to “Societal and scientific impact of policy research: A large-scale empirical study of some explanatory factors using Altmetric and Overton” [Journal of Informetrics 18/3 (2024) 101530]	9
Assessing academic impacts of machine learning applications on a social science: Bibliometric evidence from economics	9
Collaboration networks and radical innovation: Two faces of tie strength and structural holes	9
Linkages among science, technology, and industry on the basis of main path analysis	9
Impact of COVID-19 on Journal Impact Factor	9
Development and application of a comprehensive glossary for the identification of statistical and methodological concepts in peer review reports	9
Power Laws in altmetrics: An empirical analysis	9
A new approach to computing the distances between research disciplines based on researcher collaborations and similarity measurement techniques	9
Evaluation and identification of potential high-value patents in the field of integrated circuits using a multidimensional patent indicators pre-screening strategy and machine learning approaches	9
Tree knowledge structure for better insight: Capturing biomedical science-technology knowledge linkage with MeSH	9
Predicting the evolution of scientific communities by interpretable machine learning approaches	9
A simple equation for rank-citation profiles	9
Exploring the potential of novel research proposals as signals of successful national R&D: A case study on energy and resource sector in South Korea	9
A study of gender and regional differences in scientific mobility and immobility among researchers identified as potentially talented	9
Authorship regulations in performance-based funding systems and publication behaviour – A case study of German medical faculties	9
Affiliation homogeneity and scientific impact: A comparative study across nations	9
Quantifying the impact of digital technology on enterprise processes using LLM-based causal claim networks	9
Signatures of capacity development through research collaborations in artificial intelligence and machine learning	8
Dependency, reciprocity, and informal mentorship in predicting long-term research collaboration: A co-authorship matrix-based multivariate time series analysis	8
Corrigendum to “Small but not least changes: The art of creating disruptive innovations” [Journal of Informetrics, Volume 19 , Issue 3, (August 2025), 101703]	8
Do OpenCitations and Dimensions serve as an alternative to Web of Science for calculating disruption indexes?	8
A novel approach to enterprise technical collaboration: Recommending R&D partners through technological similarity and complementarity	8
Editorial Board	8
Corrigendum to “BiblioMerge: A Python-based automated tool to merge WoS and Scopus bibliographic data, compatible with Biblioshiny, BibExcel, VOSviewer, SciMAT and ScientoPy” [Journal of Informetrics,	8
Enhancing semantic text similarity with functional semantic knowledge (FOP) in patents	8
Knowledge substitutability and complementarity in scientific collaboration	8
Innovation lineage structure: A graph structure in publications of scholars and its association with disruptiveness	8
Early identification of breakthrough research from sleeping beauties using machine learning	8
Relations among the h-, g-, ψ-, and p-index and offset-ability	8
Weak ties matter for scientific innovation: The dual perspectives of knowledge recombination network and collaboration network	8
Exploring the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific breakthrough speed: a study based on Nobel Prize-winning papers	8
Conscientiousness predicts doctoral students’ research productivity	8
Poincare: Recommending Publication Venues via Treatment Effect Estimation	8
The k-step h-index in citation networks at the paper, author, and institution levels	8
Exploring the knowledge certainty shift: Metaknowledge analysis on drugs via assertion uncertainty burstiness	7
Exploring perception of retraction based on mentioned status in post-retraction citations	7
Does open access promote interdisciplinary knowledge flow? A Quasi-Natural experiment of journal transitions to fully OA in agronomy	7
SMIAltmetric: A comprehensive metric for evaluating social media impact of scientific papers on Twitter (X)	7
On journal rankings and researchers' abilities	7
A Dirichlet-Multinomial mixture model of Statistical Science: Mapping the shift of a paradigm	7
The determinants and impact of research grants: The case of Brazilian productivity scholarships	7
Citation counts and inclusion of references in seven free-access scholarly databases: A comparative analysis	7
Are there stars in Bluesky? A comparative exploratory analysis of altmetric mentions between X and Bluesky	7
Earlier recognition of scientific excellence enhances future achievements and promotes persistence	7
DAC: Descendant-aware clustering algorithm for network-based topic emergence prediction	7
An empirical study of retractions due to honest errors: Exploring the relationship between error types and author teams	7
Corrigendum to “Automated generation of research workflows from academic papers: a full-text mining framework” [Journal of Informetrics, 19 (2025) 101732]	7
Impact of rhetorical devices on citation behavior: persuasion in scientific papers and its effect on reader response	7
An effective framework for measuring the novelty of scientific articles through integrated topic modeling and cloud model	7
Editorial Board	7
Is it all bafflegab? – Linguistic and meta characteristics of research articles in prestigious economics journals	7
Collaborative Team Recognition: A Core Plus Extension Structure	7
What makes a successful rebuttal in computer science conferences?: A perspective on social interaction	6
The internal dynamics of journals’ h-cores over time	6
The measurements and determinants of patent technological value: Lifetime, strength, breadth, and dispersion from the technology diffusion perspective	6
Developing a four-entities reinforced rank model to evaluate the topic influence in academic networks	6
Co-patents in Europe: Methodological concerns, unfolding trends	6
Scientific knowledge role transition prediction from a knowledge hierarchical structure perspective	6
Developing a topic-driven method for interdisciplinarity analysis	6
Relationship between the principle of least effort and the average cost of information in a zipfian context	6
Geography of science: Competitiveness and inequality	6
Scientific impact analysis: Unraveling the link between linguistic properties and citations	6

Transparency of reporting practices in quantitative field studies: The transparency sweet spot for article citations	6
Uncited papers in the structure of scientific communication	6
The mediating impact of citation scope: Evidence from China's ESI publications	6
Document types make the difference	6
A study of referencing changes in preprint-publication pairs across multiple fields	6
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How does policy information shape its adoption? A citation analysis of large-scale energy policies in China	6
An exploratory study of Twitter metrics for measuring user influence	5
Comments on the ideological and philosophical foundations of bibliometrics by Gorraiz, J.	5
Small but not least changes: The art of creating disruptive innovations	5
The inter-institutional and intra-institutional multi-affiliation authorships in the scientific papers produced by the well-ranked universities	5
Revalidation of the applicability of Altmetrics indicators in article-level evaluation: An empirical analysis of papers of different types of citation trajectories	5
Measuring the novelty of scientific publications: A fastText and local outlier factor approach	5
Hidden scales in statistics of citation indicators	5
Remarks on modified fractional counting	5
Overcoming recognition delays in disruptive research: The impact of team size, familiarity, and reputation	5
The many facets of academic mobility and its impact on scholars' career	5
A new method for measuring the originality of academic articles based on knowledge units in semantic networks	5
How does academic education background affect top researchers’ performance? Evidence from the field of artificial intelligence	5
Empirical analysis of recent temporal dynamics of research fields: Annual publications in chemistry and related areas as an example	5
Extracting the interdisciplinary specialty structures in social media data-based research: A clustering-based network approach	5
Rank-based distributions in scientific papers affiliations: Different forms of Zipf's law with and without higher order inverse participation ratios	5
Unveiling intrinsic interactions of science and technology in artificial intelligence using a network portrait divergence approach	5
Do international nonstop flights foster influential research? Evidence from Sino-US scientific collaboration	5
Movers’ advantages: The effect of mobility on scientists’ productivity and collaboration	5
Integration vs segregation: Network analysis of interdisciplinarity in funded and unfunded research on infectious diseases	5
Automatic recognition and classification of future work sentences from academic articles in a specific domain	5
What makes or breaks competitive research proposals? A mixed-methods analysis of research grant evaluation reports	5
How to configure intellectual capital of research teams for triggering scientific breakthroughs: Exploratory study in the field of gene editing	5
Integrating persistence process into the analysis of technology convergence using STERGM	5
Editorial Board	5
Quantifying delayed recognition of scientists	5
Scientists’ disciplinary characteristics and collaboration behaviour under the convergence paradigm: A multilevel network perspective	5
Investigating clinical links in edge-labeled citation networks of biomedical research: A translational science perspective	5
A semantic main path analysis method to identify multiple developmental trajectories	5
Identification of potential young talented individuals in the natural and life sciences: A bibliometric approach	5
Deep learning for predicting patent application outcome: The fusion of text and network embeddings	4
Author position ratio (APR): a simple complementary bibliometric descriptor of authorship patterns	4
Profiling team exploration strategies of collaborating authors from artificial intelligence in computer science	4
Identifying potential sleeping beauties based on dynamic time warping algorithm and citation curve benchmarking	4
Corrigendum to “A framework armed with node dynamics for predicting technology convergence” [Journal of Informetrics 18 (2024) 101583]	4
Capability of non-English-speaking countries for securing a foothold in international journal publishing	4
Measuring the topic-level journal impact: JNIln	4
Citation recommendation based on argumentative zoning of user queries	4
Integrating prior field knowledge as key documents with main path analysis utilizing key-node path search	4
Global informetric impact: A description and definition using bundles	4
The academic status of reviewers predicts their language use	4
Multidimensional indicators to identify emerging technologies: Perspective of technological knowledge flow	4
Editorial Board	4
Foundations of Narrative Bibliometrics	4
Exploring the “awakening effect” in knowledge diffusion: a case study of publications in the library and information science domain	4
Leveraging patent classification based on deep learning: The case study on smart cities and industrial Internet of Things	4
Editorial Board	4