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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The multifaceted factors affecting the publication times of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus articles: what has changed in two decades	263
A modified gamma/Gompertz/NBD model for estimating technology lifetime	146
Altmetrics-based sleeping beauties: necessity or just a supplement?	114
Technological innovation in GRIs, universities, and the private sector: evidence from the chemical technology network in South Korea	93
Letter: Response to Torres-Salinas et al. on “bibliometric denialism”	83
Experience effects of patent examiners: an empirical study of the career length and citation patterns on triadic patents	80
Integrated knowledge content in an interdisciplinary field: identification, classification, and application	71
Education journal rankings: a diversity-based Author Affiliation Index assessment methodology	65
The mutual reinforcement of scientific and technological knowledge—a technology-level analysis	63
Co-follower metric on academic-social media ResearchGate: similarities between Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal winners	59
The association between topic growth and citation impact of research publications	58
Towards multiple ontologies in science mapping. A tribute to Loet Leydesdorff	56
Examining linguistic shifts in academic writing before and after the launch of ChatGPT: a study on preprint papers	48
Mapping the unseen in practice: comparing latent Dirichlet allocation and BERTopic for navigating topic spaces	44
How does social media mention academic papers? Evidence from WeChat in China	43
Positive covariation or trade-off? A cross-disciplinary investigation of shell nouns and their congruent expressions in research articles	43
Academic soulmate: a memory of Loet Leydesdorff	43
Impact of the number and rank of coauthors on h-index and π-index. The part-impact method	41
Fine-grained classification of journal articles based on multiple layers of information through similarity network fusion: The case of the Cambridge Journal of Economics	40
Research networks and the initial placement of PhD holders in academia: evidence from social science fields	38
How is public discussion as reflected in WeChat articles different from scholarly research in China? An empirical study of metaverse	38
Extracting problem and method sentence from scientific papers: a context-enhanced transformer using formulaic expression desensitization	37
The impact of IP protection on scientific output: evidence from the plant variety sector	37
Life scientists’ experience with posting preprints during the COVID-19 pandemic	35
Determinants of manuscript submissions to fully open access journals: elasticity to article processing charges	35

Retraction of Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences lacks justification	34
Use of inactive Cochrane reviews in academia: A citation analysis	33
A large-scale semi-automated approach for assessing document-type classification errors in bibliometric databases	32
Structure of university licensing networks	32
Female author representation differs between journals from the United States of America, Europe, and Asia: a 10-year comparison of five medical disciplines	30