OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Scientometrics is 30. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How is public discussion as reflected in WeChat articles different from scholarly research in China? An empirical study of metaverse	207
Higher-order rich-club phenomenon in collaborative research grant networks	132
Structure of university licensing networks	100
Abuse of ORCID’s weaknesses by authors who use paper mills	97
The multifaceted factors affecting the publication times of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus articles: what has changed in two decades	78
Fine-grained classification of journal articles based on multiple layers of information through similarity network fusion: The case of the Cambridge Journal of Economics	63
Integrated knowledge content in an interdisciplinary field: identification, classification, and application	57
Technological innovation in GRIs, universities, and the private sector: evidence from the chemical technology network in South Korea	52
A modified gamma/Gompertz/NBD model for estimating technology lifetime	50
Retraction of Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences lacks justification	46
Female author representation differs between journals from the United States of America, Europe, and Asia: a 10-year comparison of five medical disciplines	45
Co-follower metric on academic-social media ResearchGate: similarities between Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal winners	44
Altmetrics-based sleeping beauties: necessity or just a supplement?	41
COVID research across the social sciences in 2020: a bibliometric approach	41
Author placement in Computer Science: a study based on the careers of ACM Fellows	40
Letter: Response to Torres-Salinas et al. on “bibliometric denialism”	40
Extracting problem and method sentence from scientific papers: a context-enhanced transformer using formulaic expression desensitization	37
Life scientists’ experience with posting preprints during the COVID-19 pandemic	37
The explanatory power of citations: a new approach to unpacking impact in science	36
Community-level characteristics and member firms’ invention: evidence from university–industry innovation community in China	35
The association between topic growth and citation impact of research publications	33
Research networks and the initial placement of PhD holders in academia: evidence from social science fields	33
The effect of social media knowledge cascade: an analysis of scientific papers diffusion	33
A large-scale semi-automated approach for assessing document-type classification errors in bibliometric databases	32
In which fields do higher impact journals publish higher quality articles?	32

Experience effects of patent examiners: an empirical study of the career length and citation patterns on triadic patents	32
The mutual reinforcement of scientific and technological knowledge—a technology-level analysis	32
Determinants of manuscript submissions to fully open access journals: elasticity to article processing charges	32
Education journal rankings: a diversity-based Author Affiliation Index assessment methodology	31
Use of inactive Cochrane reviews in academia: A citation analysis	30
The Nobel family	30
Marshall-Olkin distributions: a bibliometric study	30
How can policy document mentions to scholarly papers be interpreted? An analysis of the underlying mentioning process	30
Academic information retrieval using citation clusters: in-depth evaluation based on systematic reviews	30