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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
An approach for identifying complementary patents based on deep learning	59
Accidentality in journal citation patterns	43
Towards firm-specific technology opportunities: A rule-based machine learning approach to technology portfolio analysis	36
Research complexity increases with scientists’ academic age: Evidence from library and information science	34
Self-Citation Patterns of Journals Indexed in the Journal Citation Reports	33
Boosting science through state support: Armenian state grants as a driver of scientific and international advancement	32
Revision and academic impact: A case study of bioRxiv preprint papers	30
Which papers cited which tweets? An exploratory analysis based on Scopus data	30
MatrixSim: A new method for detecting the evolution paths of research topics	27
Delayed citation impact of interdisciplinary research	27
An ESTs detection research based on paper entity mapping: Combining scientific text modeling and neural prophet	27
Rank-frequency data and impact in a continuous model: Introducing impact bundles	26
Gender differences in dropout rate: From field, career status, and generation perspectives	26
Distinguishing transformative from incremental clinical evidence: A classifier of clinical research using textual features from abstracts and citing sentences	25
Similarity network fusion for scholarly journals	25
Scientific creativity patterns in scholars’ academic careers: Evidence from PubMed	24
Detecting emerging technologies and their evolution using deep learning and weak signal analysis	24
How do network embeddedness and knowledge stock influence collaboration dynamics? Evidence from patents	23
Corrigendum to “Understanding the domain development through a word status observation model” [Journal of Informetrics 17 (2023) 1–19/101395]	22
Effects of research funding on the academic impact and societal visibility of scientific research	22
Is open access disrupting the journal business? A perspective from comparing full adopters, partial adopters, and non-adopters	22
Is culture related to strong science? An empirical investigation	22
A directed collaboration network for exploring the order of scientific collaboration	22
The effect of writing style on success in grant applications	21
Measuring the effect of reviewers on manuscript change: A study on a sample of submissions to Royal Society journals (2006–2017)	21

Metrics and mechanisms: Measuring the unmeasurable in the science of science	21
International collaboration leading to high citations: Global impact or home country effect?	21
Measuring knowledge exploration distance at the patent level: Application of network embedding and citation analysis	21
Expedited editorial decision in COVID-19 pandemic	21
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on gendered research productivity and its correlates	20
Exploration, exploitation and funding success: Evidence from junior scientists supported by the Chinese Young Scientists Fund	20
Exploring the change in scientific readability following the release of ChatGPT	20
Corrigendum to “Sex differences in research productivity among doctoral students in Sweden: A quantile regression approach” [Journal of Informetrics 19 (2025) 101702]	20
How do intra- and inter-organisational collaboration affect research performance? Evidence from German universities	20
The effect of publication traditions and requirements in research assessment and funding policies upon the use of national journals in 28 post-socialist countries	19
Citation bias in measuring knowledge flow: Evidence from the web of science at the discipline level	19
A multiple k-means cluster ensemble framework for clustering citation trajectories	18
Modelling informetric data using quantile functions	17
Is higher team gender diversity correlated with better scientific impact?	17
Researching deeply or broadly? The effects of scientists’ research strategies on disruptive performance over their careers	17
Do conference-journal articles receive more citations? A case study in physics	16
Researcher influence prediction (ResIP) using academic genealogy network	16
Trend analysis of the proportional allocation of funding by gender in Spanish National Research Projects: A study by disciplines and staff positions	16
Generalization of bibliographic coupling and co-citation using the node split network	16
Do scholars' collaborative tendencies impact the quality of their publications? A generalized propensity score matching analysis	15
Comparing semantic representation methods for keyword analysis in bibliometric research	15
The statistical nature of h-index of a network node and its extensions	15
Editorial Board	15
Measuring knowledge complexity in the biomedical domain based on a question-method knowledge representation model	15
Citations optimal growth path: A tool to analyze sensitivity to citations of h-like indexes	15
How Boundary-spanning Paper Sparkles Citation: From Citation Count to Citation Network	15
Does society show differential attention to researchers based on gender and field?	15
Investigating the research output of institutions	14
Characterizing interdisciplinarity in drug research: A translational science perspective	14
The effects of citation-based research evaluation schemes on self-citation behavior	14
A multi-entity reinforced main path analysis: Heterogeneous network embedding considering knowledge proximity	14
Does open data have the potential to improve the response of science to public health emergencies?	13
A network embedding-based scholar assessment indicator considering four facets: Research topic, author credit allocation, field-normalized journal impact, and published time	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
Modeling citation concentration through a mixture of Leimkuhler curves	13
Quantifying knowledge synchronization with the network-driven approach	12
Uncovering milestone papers: A network diffusion and game theory approach	12
Does the author’s collaboration mode lead to papers’ different citation impacts? An empirical analysis based on propensity score matching	12
A framework armed with node dynamics for predicting technology convergence	12
Editorial Board	12
A comprehensive comparative analysis of publication monopoly phenomenon in scientific journals	12
Determination and characteristics of the most visible authors in multi-author publications	12
Rethinking the effect of inter-gender collaboration on research performance for scholars	12
Evolution and effect of meeting abstracts in JCR journals	11
Asymmetry of social interactions and its role in link predictability: The case of coauthorship networks	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
Nobel begets Nobel in economics	11
Measuring risk in science	11
Editorial Board	11
Deep representation learning of scientific paper reveals its potential scholarly impact	11

Ungendered writing: Writing styles are unlikely to account for gender differences in funding rates in the natural and technical sciences	10
Editorial Board	10
How to detect the sleeping beauty papers and princes in technology considering indirect citations?	10
Understanding writing styles of scientific papers in the IS-LS domain: Evidence from abstracts over the past three decades	10
New components and combinations: The perspective of the internal collaboration networks of scientific teams	10
The motivations for and effects of modified fractional counting	10
Influence of interdisciplinarity on scientific impact: The case of climate change field	10
Annotating scientific uncertainty: A comprehensive model using linguistic patterns and comparison with existing approaches	10
Bibliographic coupling networks reveal the advantage of diversification in scientific projects	10
Patent landscape and key technology interaction roadmap using graph convolutional network – Case of mobile communication technologies beyond 5G	10
Predicting the citation count and CiteScore of journals one year in advance	10
Community-guided link prediction in multiplex networks	10
Power Laws in altmetrics: An empirical analysis	9
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
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
A new approach to computing the distances between research disciplines based on researcher collaborations and similarity measurement techniques	9
Affiliation homogeneity and scientific impact: A comparative study across nations	9
Tree knowledge structure for better insight: Capturing biomedical science-technology knowledge linkage with MeSH	9
Quantifying the impact of digital technology on enterprise processes using LLM-based causal claim networks	9
Entropy, heterogeneity, and their impact on technology progress	9
Assessing academic impacts of machine learning applications on a social science: Bibliometric evidence from economics	9
Multi-agent simulation of team stability evolution: A complexity science perspective	9
Authorship regulations in performance-based funding systems and publication behaviour – A case study of German medical faculties	8
Collaboration networks and radical innovation: Two faces of tie strength and structural holes	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
Knowledge substitutability and complementarity in scientific collaboration	8
Exploring the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific breakthrough speed: a study based on Nobel Prize-winning papers	8
A simple equation for rank-citation profiles	8
Signatures of capacity development through research collaborations in artificial intelligence and machine learning	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
Exploring perception of retraction based on mentioned status in post-retraction citations	8
Do OpenCitations and Dimensions serve as an alternative to Web of Science for calculating disruption indexes?	8
Linkages among science, technology, and industry on the basis of main path analysis	8
Dependency, reciprocity, and informal mentorship in predicting long-term research collaboration: A co-authorship matrix-based multivariate time series analysis	8
The k-step h-index in citation networks at the paper, author, and institution levels	8
A novel approach to enterprise technical collaboration: Recommending R&D partners through technological similarity and complementarity	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
Impact of COVID-19 on Journal Impact Factor	8