Scientometrics

This study outlines the intellectual structure of Library and Information Science in terms of the venues with RefCit2vec, an embedding method inspired by word2vec. The reference lists or cited-by lists of 62,077 articles in 35 venues (journals and ...

Besides the highest academic degree with lots of merits post that, getting a Ph.D. and the journey throughout the Ph.D. is not so easy due to which stress and trauma become common among Ph.D. research students. Stress among them can’t be ...

Academic evaluation is a critical component of research, with the interaction between quantitative and qualitative assessments becoming a prominent area of focus. This study examines the relationship between peer review scores and citations within ...

This study reports on the yearly rate of journal self-citation (JSC) in sport sciences, how it changes over time, and its association with journal impact factor (JIF). Citations made by all 87 journals in “sport sciences” from 2013 to 2022 were ...

A standard approach to compare research collaborations between pairs of countries is to look at the citations accrued by all publications with authors from both countries. This approach is often misleading, as aspects only marginally related to ...

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the measurement of research performance. These studies evaluate a country or groups of countries according to their research performance and make some inferences to improve their performance. ...

Based on the extracted information of retracted papers from the Retraction Watch Database and the citation information of these papers from the Web of Science, we uncovered the complex relationships of retracted papers in the molecular biology ...

This study presents an innovative method for tracking the evolution and repurposing of drugs, leveraging controlled vocabulary systems, specifically CA (Chemical Abstracts) Concept Headings within the SciFinderⁿ database. Using thalidomide as a ...

Citation counts are frequently used for assessing the scientific impact of articles. Current approaches for forecasting future citations counts have important limitations. This study aims to analyse and predict the trajectories of citation counts ...

Large bibliographic networks are sparse—the average node degree is small. This does not necessarily apply to their product—in some cases, it can “explode” (not sparse, increasing in temporal and spatial complexity). An approach in such cases is to ...

This study investigates the factors influencing surname initial techniques in academic publications and their impact on citation counts. Focusing on the disciplines of Economics, Psychology, Political Science, and Sociology, we utilized data from ...

Comprehending the patterns of knowledge evolution benefits funding agencies, policymakers, and researchers in developing creative ideas. We introduce the notation of scientific knowledge role transition as an evolution from informal to formal. We ...

Interdisciplinarity is a polysemous concept with multiple, reasoned and intuitive, interpretations across scholars and policy-makers. Historically, quantifying the interdisciplinarity of research has been challenging due to the variety of methods ...

The studies of international scientific cooperation have been present in the literature since the early 1990s. However, much less is known about this cooperation at the intercontinental level. Very recently Krawczyk and Malarz (Chaos 33(11):111102,...

In the evaluation of scientific publications’ impact, the interplay between intrinsic quality and non-scientific factors remains a subject of debate. While peer review traditionally assesses quality, bibliometric techniques gauge scholarly impact. ...

Citizen participation in the generation of scientific knowledge is one of the major challenges facing science and technology systems. This study takes a psychosocial approach to analyzing the process whereby citizens participate in ...

We find out which older publications (defined here as published before 1991) are nowadays, i.e. during the period [2013–2022], the most cited in leading bibliometric journals. It is found that Small’s article on co-citation analysis is the most-...