Disruptive papers published in Scientometrics

Scientometrics - Wu et al. (Nature 566:378–382, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-0941-9 ) recently proposed a new, citation-based index of ‘disruptiveness’ that is based...     

Structural characteristics of institutional collaboration in North Korea analyzed through domestic publications

Scientometrics - This paper studies the influence of funding on the position reached by the top 300 universities (institutions) of the Quaccarelly Symond World University Ranking 2018. Geographical...     

Performance of research universities in post-communist countries

Scientometrics - In this discussion we prepare performance trajectories using CWTS Leiden 2018 data to show that leading research universities in the EU members from the post-communist grouping...     

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 1973–2018: an analytical retrospective

Scientometrics - This paper analyses the entire publication history of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) by analyzing 1747 documents from 1973 to June 2018. Citation networks...     

Productivity does not equal usefulness

Scientometrics - For a recent commentary in Nature, Ioannidis et al. (Nature 561(7722):167–169, 2018) searched the Scopus database and identified those “hyperprolific” authors who...     

Reflections around ‘the cautionary use’ of the h-index: response to Teixeira da Silva and Dobránszki

Scientometrics - In a recent Letter to the Editor Teixeira da Silva and Dobránszki (2018) present a discussion of the issues regarding the h-index as an indicator for the evaluation of...     

Do academics swing for the fences after tenure? Analysis of attributions data from economics research

Scientometrics - Recent research by Brogaard et al. (J Econ Perspect 32:179–194, 2018) explores whether or not the receipt of tenure gives academics the employment protection...     

Cross-country concentration and specialization of mining inventions

Scientometrics - This article focuses on the cross-country distribution of mining patent families during the period of 1970???2018. Alternatives measures of concentration indicate...     

Mapping of topics in DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology,India: a study

Scientometrics - This study analyzed 928 full-text research articles retrieved from DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology for the period of 1981–2018 using Latent Dirichlet...     

Count highly-cited papers instead of papers with h citations: use normalized citation counts and compare “like with like”!

Teixeira da Silva and Dobránszki (Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2680-3, 2018) describe practical problems in using the h-index for the purpose of research evaluation. For example, they discuss the h-index differences among the bibliometric databases. In this Letter to the Editor, we argue for abstaining from using the h-index. One can use normalized indicators instead.

     

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...     

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...     

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.     

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...     

Bibliometrics-based decision tree (BBDT) for deciding whether two universities in the Leiden ranking differ substantially in their performance

Scientometrics - Fast-and-frugal heuristics are simple judgement strategies that are based on only a few predictor variables. Bornmann and Marewski (Scientometrics 120(2):419–459, 2019)...     

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,...     

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...     

The alleged citation advantage of video abstracts may be a matter of self-citations and self-selection bias. Comment on “The impact of video abstract on citation counts” by Zong et al.

Scientometrics - The paper authored by Zong et al. (Scientometrics, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03108-w) claims that equipping articles with a video abstract provides them a citation...     

Reply to Wray

Scientometrics - In this letter, I reply to two insightful remarks made by Wray on a study I recently published on Scientometrics. First, I clarify the method I used to assess the transition of...     

Open access initiatives in European universities: analysis of their implementation and the visibility of publications in the YERUN network

Scientometrics - In this paper, the authors analyse the open access (OA) output of the universities in YERUN (the Young European Research Universities Network) and their institutional documentation...