Evaluating the nursing academicians in Turkey in the scope of Web of Science: scientometrics of original articles

Scientometrics - Scientometrics, bibliometrics, webometrics, and informetrics are specific research fields that cover statistical analyses of a particular research field which summarize the...     

Understanding the role of open peer review and dynamic academic articles

We welcome the commentary by L. Egghe (Scientometrics, this issue) stimulating discussion on our recent article “Natural selection of academic papers” (NSAP) (Scientometrics, 85(2):553–559, 2010) that focuses on an important modern issue at the heart of the scientific enterprise—the open and continuous evaluation and evolution of research. We are also grateful to the editor of Scientometrics for giving us the opportunity to respond to some of the arguments by L. Egghe that we believe are inaccurate or require further comment.     

Is there an intrinsic logical error in null hypothesis significance tests? Commentary on: “Null hypothesis significance tests. A mix-up of two different theories: the basis for widespread confusion and numerous misinterpretations”

Scientometrics - In Schneider (Scientometrics 102:411–432, 2015), the author argues that there is an intrinsic logical problem in null hypothesis significance test and thus urges to use it...     

NHST is still logically flawed

Scientometrics - In this elaborate response to Wu (in Scientometrics, 2018), I maintain that null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) is logically flawed. Wu (2018) disagrees with this claim...     

One category,two communities: subfield differences in “Information Science and Library Science” in Journal Citation Reports

Scientometrics - Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and its journal ranking in terms of impact factor are highly influential in research evaluation. Comparisons of impact factor are valuable only when...     

Are FT50 journals really leading? A comment on Fassin

Scientometrics - In his recent Scientometrics article, Fassin (2021) asked the following question: Does the FT50 journal list select the best management and economics journals? After collecting,...     

Letter to the editor: comments on the paper of Gagolewski et al.: Ockham’s index of citation impact

Scientometrics - In a recent paper in Scientometrics, Gagolewski et al. (2022) elaborated on a 3DSI model (3 dimensions of scientific impact) using a triplet of primary indicators (N, the number of...     

Finding rising stars in bibliometric networks

Scientometrics - Finding rising stars (FRS) is a hot research topic investigated recently for diverse application domains. These days, people are more interested in finding people who will become...     

Taking scholarly books into account,part II: a comparison of 19 European countries in evaluation and funding

Scientometrics - In May 2016, an article published in Scientometrics, titled ‘Taking scholarly books into account: current developments in five European countries’, introduced a...     

Letter to the editor: comments on the paper of Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti and Tommaso Lando: a theoretical model of the relationship between the h-index and other simple citation indicators

Scientometrics - In this discussion we show using results from Bertoli-Barsotti and Lando (Scientometrics, 2017. doi: 10.1007/s11192-017-2351-9 ) that the simplest formula that could be derived...     

“Interdisciplinarity” and “Synergy” in the Œuvre of Judit Bar-Ilan

Scientometrics - Both “interdisciplinarity” and “synergy” are desirable features from a policy perspective: can surplus be found in the interactions among (disciplinary)...     

What I have learned from my Google Scholar and H index

Scientometrics - Following Hartley (Scientometrics 118:375–381, 2019) I attempted to draw lessons from my personal Google citations (>?100,000) by reviewing over 100,000 personal...     

Assessing social capital in academic research teams: a measurement instrument proposal

Scientometrics - Open access mega journals (OAMJs) are broad and centralized open access journals that have come to represent profitable outlets for accumulating large volumes of research from...     

Evaluating human versus machine learning performance in classifying research abstracts

Scientometrics - We study whether humans or machine learning (ML) classification models are better at classifying scientific research abstracts according to a fixed set of discipline groups. We...     

Open peer review: promoting transparency in open science

Scientometrics - Open peer review (OPR), where review reports and reviewers’ identities are published alongside the articles, represents one of the last aspects of the open science movement...     

What does MIS survey research reveal about diversity and representativeness in the MIS field? A content analysis approach

Scientometrics - Diversity and representativeness are two enriching components of an academic field and for quite some time, Management Information Systems (MIS) researchers have been advocating...     

Response to comment “hα: the scientist as chimpanzee or bonobo”, by Leydesdorff,Bornmann and Opthof

Scientometrics - In this comment by Leydesdorff, Bornmann and Opthof (Scientometrics https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03004-3 , 2019) the authors criticize the recently proposed...     

Openness trends in Brazilian citation data: factors related to the use of DOIs

Scientometrics - Digital object identifiers (DOIs) are important metadata elements for indexing and interoperability, as well as for bibliometric studies in times of openness. This study analyses...     

What might get published in management and applied psychology? Experimentally manipulating implicit expectations of reviewers regarding hedges

Scientometrics - Researchers’ careers depend on publishing papers. There are explicit expectations (e.g., paper structure) that affect editors’ and reviewers’ perceptions of...     

Research trend prediction in computer science publications: a deep neural network approach

Scientometrics - Thousands of research papers are being published every day, and among all these research works, one of the fastest-growing fields is computer science (CS). Thus, learning which...