OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Informetrics is 8. 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
An approach for identifying complementary patents based on deep learning	65
Accidentality in journal citation patterns	51
Research complexity increases with scientists’ academic age: Evidence from library and information science	39
Self-Citation Patterns of Journals Indexed in the Journal Citation Reports	33
Which papers cited which tweets? An exploratory analysis based on Scopus data	32
Revision and academic impact: A case study of bioRxiv preprint papers	30
A directed collaboration network for exploring the order of scientific collaboration	29
Towards firm-specific technology opportunities: A rule-based machine learning approach to technology portfolio analysis	29
Distinguishing transformative from incremental clinical evidence: A classifier of clinical research using textual features from abstracts and citing sentences	28
‘To tweet or not to tweet?’ A study of the use of Twitter by scholarly book publishers in Social Sciences and Humanities	28
Rank-frequency data and impact in a continuous model: Introducing impact bundles	25
Scientific creativity patterns in scholars’ academic careers: Evidence from PubMed	24
Corrigendum to “Understanding the domain development through a word status observation model” [Journal of Informetrics 17 (2023) 1–19/101395]	23
Gender differences in dropout rate: From field, career status, and generation perspectives	23
Metrics and mechanisms: Measuring the unmeasurable in the science of science	22
International collaboration leading to high citations: Global impact or home country effect?	22
Similarity network fusion for scholarly journals	22
Effects of research funding on the academic impact and societal visibility of scientific research	21
Is open access disrupting the journal business? A perspective from comparing full adopters, partial adopters, and non-adopters	21
Delayed citation impact of interdisciplinary research	20
The effect of writing style on success in grant applications	20
Measuring knowledge exploration distance at the patent level: Application of network embedding and citation analysis	20
Is culture related to strong science? An empirical investigation	20
MatrixSim: A new method for detecting the evolution paths of research topics	19
How do network embeddedness and knowledge stock influence collaboration dynamics? Evidence from patents	19

Measuring the effect of reviewers on manuscript change: A study on a sample of submissions to Royal Society journals (2006–2017)	19
An ESTs detection research based on paper entity mapping: Combining scientific text modeling and neural prophet	19
Detecting emerging technologies and their evolution using deep learning and weak signal analysis	19
Expedited editorial decision in COVID-19 pandemic	19
Impact of scientific, economic, geopolitical, and cultural factors on international research collaboration	19
A theory of pointwise defined impact measures	19
How Boundary-spanning Paper Sparkles Citation: From Citation Count to Citation Network	18
Exploration, exploitation and funding success: Evidence from junior scientists supported by the Chinese Young Scientists Fund	18
Do conference-journal articles receive more citations? A case study in physics	18
Citation bias in measuring knowledge flow: Evidence from the web of science at the discipline level	18
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on gendered research productivity and its correlates	18
The effect of publication traditions and requirements in research assessment and funding policies upon the use of national journals in 28 post-socialist countries	18
Researcher influence prediction (ResIP) using academic genealogy network	17
Researching deeply or broadly? The effects of scientists’ research strategies on disruptive performance over their careers	17
Scoring the resourcefulness of researchers using bibliographic coupling patterns	17
Does society show differential attention to researchers based on gender and field?	17
A multiple k-means cluster ensemble framework for clustering citation trajectories	16
Generalization of bibliographic coupling and co-citation using the node split network	15
Modelling informetric data using quantile functions	15
Measuring knowledge complexity in the biomedical domain based on a question-method knowledge representation model	15
Comparing semantic representation methods for keyword analysis in bibliometric research	15
Is higher team gender diversity correlated with better scientific impact?	15
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	14
Editorial Board	14
Modeling citation concentration through a mixture of Leimkuhler curves	14
A sensitivity analysis of factors influential to the popularity of shared data in data repositories	14
Do scholars' collaborative tendencies impact the quality of their publications? A generalized propensity score matching analysis	14
The statistical nature of h-index of a network node and its extensions	13
Citations optimal growth path: A tool to analyze sensitivity to citations of h-like indexes	13
A comprehensive comparative analysis of publication monopoly phenomenon in scientific journals	13
Characterizing interdisciplinarity in drug research: A translational science perspective	13
Does open data have the potential to improve the response of science to public health emergencies?	13
A multi-entity reinforced main path analysis: Heterogeneous network embedding considering knowledge proximity	13
Investigating the research output of institutions	13
The effects of citation-based research evaluation schemes on self-citation behavior	12
Measuring risk in science	12
Asymmetry of social interactions and its role in link predictability: The case of coauthorship networks	12
Deep representation learning of scientific paper reveals its potential scholarly impact	12
Quantifying knowledge synchronization with the network-driven approach	12
Rethinking the effect of inter-gender collaboration on research performance for scholars	12
Uncovering milestone papers: A network diffusion and game theory approach	12
A framework armed with node dynamics for predicting technology convergence	12
A network embedding-based scholar assessment indicator considering four facets: Research topic, author credit allocation, field-normalized journal impact, and published time	12
Does the author’s collaboration mode lead to papers’ different citation impacts? An empirical analysis based on propensity score matching	12
Evolution and effect of meeting abstracts in JCR journals	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
Bibliographic coupling networks reveal the advantage of diversification in scientific projects	11
Nobel begets Nobel in economics	11
Patent landscape and key technology interaction roadmap using graph convolutional network – Case of mobile communication technologies beyond 5G	11
Ungendered writing: Writing styles are unlikely to account for gender differences in funding rates in the natural and technical sciences	11

Influence of interdisciplinarity on scientific impact: The case of climate change field	10
Predicting the citation count and CiteScore of journals one year in advance	10
How to detect the sleeping beauty papers and princes in technology considering indirect citations?	10
Editorial Board	10
Community-guided link prediction in multiplex networks	10
New components and combinations: The perspective of the internal collaboration networks of scientific teams	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
Development and application of a comprehensive glossary for the identification of statistical and methodological concepts in peer review reports	9
Assessing academic impacts of machine learning applications on a social science: Bibliometric evidence from economics	9
Authorship regulations in performance-based funding systems and publication behaviour – A case study of German medical faculties	9
Annotating scientific uncertainty: A comprehensive model using linguistic patterns and comparison with existing approaches	9
Collaboration networks and radical innovation: Two faces of tie strength and structural holes	9
Entropy, heterogeneity, and their impact on technology progress	9
A new approach to computing the distances between research disciplines based on researcher collaborations and similarity measurement techniques	9
Multi-agent simulation of team stability evolution: A complexity science perspective	9
Understanding writing styles of scientific papers in the IS-LS domain: Evidence from abstracts over the past three decades	9
Linkages among science, technology, and industry on the basis of main path analysis	9
A simple equation for rank-citation profiles	9
Developing new data envelopment analysis models to evaluate the efficiency in Ontario Universities	9
Power Laws in altmetrics: An empirical analysis	8
Signatures of capacity development through research collaborations in artificial intelligence and machine learning	8
A novel approach to enterprise technical collaboration: Recommending R&D partners through technological similarity and complementarity	8
Impact of COVID-19 on Journal Impact Factor	8
Tree knowledge structure for better insight: Capturing biomedical science-technology knowledge linkage with MeSH	8
Dependency, reciprocity, and informal mentorship in predicting long-term research collaboration: A co-authorship matrix-based multivariate time series analysis	8
Predicting the evolution of scientific communities by interpretable machine learning approaches	8
Enhancing semantic text similarity with functional semantic knowledge (FOP) in patents	8
Early identification of breakthrough research from sleeping beauties using machine learning	8
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	8
Relations among the h-, g-, ψ-, and p-index and offset-ability	8
Exploring perception of retraction based on mentioned status in post-retraction citations	8
The k-step h-index in citation networks at the paper, author, and institution levels	8