OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Informetrics is 9. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Predicting the citation counts of individual papers via a BP neural network	78
Gender-based homophily in research: A large-scale study of man-woman collaboration	47
Early indicators of scientific impact: Predicting citations with altmetrics	41
The effect of Russian University Excellence Initiative on publications and collaboration patterns	39
How do authors select keywords? A preliminary study of author keyword selection behavior	37
Research funding: past performance is a stronger predictor of future scientific output than reviewer scores	36
Bibliometrics and systematic reviews: A comparison between the Proknow-C and the Methodi Ordinatio	35
Are nationally oriented journals indexed in Scopus becoming more international? The effect of publication language and access modality	34
Monolingual and multilingual topic analysis using LDA and BERT embeddings	34
Gender differences in research performance within and between countries: Italy vs Norway	33
New directions in science emerge from disconnection and discord	32
Topic-linked innovation paths in science and technology	30
Predicting scientific research trends based on link prediction in keyword networks	28
The pace of artificial intelligence innovations: Speed, talent, and trial-and-error	28
Utilizing citation network structure to predict paper citation counts: A Deep learning approach	28
An alternative topic model based on Common Interest Authors for topic evolution analysis	27
Exploring the interdisciplinarity patterns of highly cited papers	27
An investigation of the relationship between scientists’ mobility to/from China and their research performance	26
Identifying the impact of patent family on the patent trajectory: A case of thin film solar cells technological trajectories	26
Understanding hierarchical structural evolution in a scientific discipline: A case study of artificial intelligence	26
Interpreting CNCIs on a country-scale: The effect of domestic and international collaboration type	25
Preprints as accelerator of scholarly communication: An empirical analysis in Mathematics	23
An improved patent similarity measurement based on entities and semantic relations	22
Using the full-text content of academic articles to identify and evaluate algorithm entities in the domain of natural language processing	21
Great minds think alike, or do they often differ? Research topic overlap and the formation of scientific teams	21

Is funding related to higher research impact? Exploring its relationship and the mediating role of collaboration in several disciplines	21
Knowledge recency to the birth of Nobel Prize-winning articles: Gender, career stage, and country	21
Further divided gender gaps in research productivity and collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from coronavirus-related literature	20
Convergent validity of several indicators measuring disruptiveness with milestone assignments to physics papers by experts	20
Moving more, but closer: Mapping the growing regionalization of global scientific mobility using ORCID	20
A novel term weighting scheme for text classification: TF-MONO	20
Impact of scientific, economic, geopolitical, and cultural factors on international research collaboration	19
Which distance dimensions matter in international research collaboration? A cross-country analysis by scientific domain	18
Tracing the main path of interdisciplinary research considering citation preference: A case from blockchain domain	18
Using graph embedding and machine learning to identify rebels on twitter	17
An analysis of the evolution of science-technology linkage in biomedicine	17
Bi-layer network analytics: A methodology for characterizing emerging general-purpose technologies	17
Comparison of research performance of Italian and Norwegian professors and universities	17
Self-Citation Patterns of Journals Indexed in the Journal Citation Reports	17
Become a better you: Correlation between the change of research direction and the change of scientific performance	16
Disruption indices and their calculation using web-of-science data: Indicators of historical developments or evolutionary dynamics?	16
Can we automate expert-based journal rankings? Analysis of the Finnish publication indicator	16
Scientists’ genders and international academic collaboration: An empirical study of Chinese universities and research institutes	16
Measuring the impact of novelty, bibliometric, and academic-network factors on citation count using a neural network	16
The relationship between readability and scientific impact: Evidence from emerging technology discourses	16
A new citation concept: Triangular citation in the literature	15
Community-guided link prediction in multiplex networks	15
SciKGraph: A knowledge graph approach to structure a scientific field	15
A study of referencing changes in preprint-publication pairs across multiple fields	15
A novel approach to measuring science-technology linkage: From the perspective of knowledge network coupling	15
Paper-patent citation linkages as early signs for predicting delayed recognized knowledge: Macro and micro evidence	15
The effects of citation-based research evaluation schemes on self-citation behavior	14
Team Size, Research Variety, and Research Performance: Do Coauthors’ Coauthors Matter?	14
The effect of citation behaviour on knowledge diffusion and intellectual structure	14
Publication delay adjusted impact factor: The effect of publication delay of articles on journal impact factor	14
Using technological entropy to identify technology life cycle	14
Application of machine learning techniques to assess the trends and alignment of the funded research output	14
Metrics and mechanisms: Measuring the unmeasurable in the science of science	14
A parallel DEA-based method for evaluating parallel independent subunits with heterogeneous outputs	13
Quantifying cross-disciplinary knowledge flow from the perspective of content: Introducing an approach based on knowledge memes	13
Scientific collaboration and career stages: An ego-centric perspective	13
Movers’ advantages: The effect of mobility on scientists’ productivity and collaboration	13
Predicting the number of coauthors for researchers: A learning model	13
Identifying core policy instruments based on structural holes: A case study of China’s nuclear energy policy	13
Government funded R&D collaboration and it's impact on SME's business performance	13
Influence difference main path analysis: Evidence from DNA and blockchain domain citation networks	12
A supervised machine learning approach to author disambiguation in the Web of Science	12
Early-stage reciprocity in sustainable scientific collaboration	12
Social media-based sleeping beauties: Defining, identifying and features	12
The many facets of academic mobility and its impact on scholars' career	12
Identifying prize-winning scientists by a competition-aware ranking	12
The internationality of published higher education scholarship: How do the ‘top’ journals compare?	11
Comparison of citations and attention of cover and non-cover papers	11
Knowledge spillovers: Does the geographic proximity effect decay over time? A discipline-level analysis, accounting for cognitive proximity, with and without self-citations	11
Understanding the peer review endeavor in scientific publishing	11

Sex differences in people and things orientation are reflected in sex differences in academic publishing	11
Mining Temporal Evolution of Knowledge Graphs and Genealogical Features for Literature-based Discovery Prediction	11
Developing new data envelopment analysis models to evaluate the efficiency in Ontario Universities	11
The research productivity of universities. A multilevel and multidisciplinary analysis on European institutions	11
Does the author’s collaboration mode lead to papers’ different citation impacts? An empirical analysis based on propensity score matching	11
Will collaborators make scientists move? A Generalized Propensity Score analysis	11
The effect of publication traditions and requirements in research assessment and funding policies upon the use of national journals in 28 post-socialist countries	11
Characterizing references from different disciplines: A perspective of citation content analysis	11
Understanding interdisciplinary knowledge integration through citance analysis: A case study on eHealth	11
Exploring the effect of city-level collaboration and knowledge networks on innovation: Evidence from energy conservation field	10
Predicting future influence of papers, researchers, and venues in a dynamic academic network	10
The role of dyadic social capital in enhancing collaborative knowledge creation	10
The inconsistency of h-index: A mathematical analysis	10
Assigning credit to scientific datasets using article citation networks	10
A semantic main path analysis method to identify multiple developmental trajectories	10
How do media mention research papers? Structural analysis of blogs and news networks using citation coupling	10
Is there a need for a new journal metric? Correlations between JCR Impact Factor metrics and the Journal Citation Indicator—JCI	10
SIMILAR – Systematic iterative multilayer literature review method	10
Evaluating the influence of country characteristics on the Higher Education System Rankings’ progress	10
The effect of writing style on success in grant applications	10
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on gendered research productivity and its correlates	10
Are Altmetric.com scores effective for research impact evaluation in the social sciences and humanities?	9
Measuring knowledge exploration distance at the patent level: Application of network embedding and citation analysis	9
Revealing the scientific comparative advantage of nations: Common and distinctive features	9
International student mobility spurs scientific research on foreign countries: Evidence from international students studying in China	9
Team formation and team impact: The balance between team freshness and repeat collaboration	9
Identifying keyword sleeping beauties: A perspective on the knowledge diffusion process	9
Predicting publication productivity for researchers: A piecewise Poisson model	9
A “Trojan Horse” in the peer-review process of fee-charging economic journals	9
Robustness, replicability and scalability in topic modelling	9
Ranking institutions within a discipline: The steep mountain of academic excellence	9
Changing research topic trends as an effect of publication rankings – The case of German economists and the Handelsblatt Ranking	9
An automated conflict of interest based greedy approach for conference paper assignment system	9
The Matthew effect and the halo effect in research funding	9
Bridge strongly or focus – An analysis of bridging patents in four application fields of carbon fiber reinforcements	9