Journal of Informetrics

Article	Citations
An approach for identifying complementary patents based on deep learning	59
Towards firm-specific technology opportunities: A rule-based machine learning approach to technology portfolio analysis	44
Self-Citation Patterns of Journals Indexed in the Journal Citation Reports	36
Which papers cited which tweets? An exploratory analysis based on Scopus data	35
Research complexity increases with scientists’ academic age: Evidence from library and information science	34
Accidentality in journal citation patterns	33
Revision and academic impact: A case study of bioRxiv preprint papers	33
Boosting science through state support: Armenian state grants as a driver of scientific and international advancement	31
Gender differences in dropout rate: From field, career status, and generation perspectives	29
Is open access disrupting the journal business? A perspective from comparing full adopters, partial adopters, and non-adopters	28
How do network embeddedness and knowledge stock influence collaboration dynamics? Evidence from patents	28
Enhancing the prediction of publications’ long-term impact using early citations, readerships, and non-scientific factors	27
An ESTs detection research based on paper entity mapping: Combining scientific text modeling and neural prophet	27
Effects of research funding on the academic impact and societal visibility of scientific research	26
Is culture related to strong science? An empirical investigation	26
A directed collaboration network for exploring the order of scientific collaboration	25
Similarity network fusion for scholarly journals	25
Rank-frequency data and impact in a continuous model: Introducing impact bundles	24
MatrixSim: A new method for detecting the evolution paths of research topics	24
The effect of writing style on success in grant applications	24
Delayed citation impact of interdisciplinary research	24
Metrics and mechanisms: Measuring the unmeasurable in the science of science	24
Detecting emerging technologies and their evolution using deep learning and weak signal analysis	23
Corrigendum to “Understanding the domain development through a word status observation model” [Journal of Informetrics 17 (2023) 1–19/101395]	22
Distinguishing transformative from incremental clinical evidence: A classifier of clinical research using textual features from abstracts and citing sentences	22

Measuring knowledge exploration distance at the patent level: Application of network embedding and citation analysis	22
Exploring the change in scientific readability following the release of ChatGPT	21
Scientific creativity patterns in scholars’ academic careers: Evidence from PubMed	21
Measuring the effect of reviewers on manuscript change: A study on a sample of submissions to Royal Society journals (2006–2017)	21
How do intra- and inter-organisational collaboration affect research performance? Evidence from German universities	21
Expedited editorial decision in COVID-19 pandemic	21
Corrigendum to “Sex differences in research productivity among doctoral students in Sweden: A quantile regression approach” [Journal of Informetrics 19 (2025) 101702]	21
International collaboration leading to high citations: Global impact or home country effect?	21
Citation bias in measuring knowledge flow: Evidence from the web of science at the discipline level	20
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on gendered research productivity and its correlates	20
Exploration, exploitation and funding success: Evidence from junior scientists supported by the Chinese Young Scientists Fund	20
The effect of publication traditions and requirements in research assessment and funding policies upon the use of national journals in 28 post-socialist countries	20
Revealing the research differences of AI between China and the U.S using semantic deviation	19
Do conference-journal articles receive more citations? A case study in physics	17
Is higher team gender diversity correlated with better scientific impact?	17
Measuring knowledge complexity in the biomedical domain based on a question-method knowledge representation model	17
Researching deeply or broadly? The effects of scientists’ research strategies on disruptive performance over their careers	17
Trend analysis of the proportional allocation of funding by gender in Spanish National Research Projects: A study by disciplines and staff positions	17
Generalization of bibliographic coupling and co-citation using the node split network	16
Modelling informetric data using quantile functions	16
A multiple k-means cluster ensemble framework for clustering citation trajectories	16
Researcher influence prediction (ResIP) using academic genealogy network	16
How Boundary-spanning Paper Sparkles Citation: From Citation Count to Citation Network	16
Investigating the research output of institutions	15
Does reusing scientific datasets reduce the impact of the papers?	15
A multi-entity reinforced main path analysis: Heterogeneous network embedding considering knowledge proximity	15
Does society show differential attention to researchers based on gender and field?	15
Comparing semantic representation methods for keyword analysis in bibliometric research	15
A comprehensive comparative analysis of publication monopoly phenomenon in scientific journals	14
Modeling citation concentration through a mixture of Leimkuhler curves	14
A network embedding-based scholar assessment indicator considering four facets: Research topic, author credit allocation, field-normalized journal impact, and published time	14
The statistical nature of h	14
The increasing dominance of repeated citations from collaborative research groups in science	14
Automated generation of research workflows from academic papers: a full-text mining framework	14
When career-boosting is on the line: Equity and inequality in grant evaluation, productivity, and the educational backgrounds of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions individual fellows in social sciences an	13
Does open data have the potential to improve the response of science to public health emergencies?	13
Do scholars' collaborative tendencies impact the quality of their publications? A generalized propensity score matching analysis	13
Quantifying knowledge synchronization with the network-driven approach	13
Editorial Board	12
The effects of citation-based research evaluation schemes on self-citation behavior	12
Uncovering milestone papers: A network diffusion and game theory approach	12
Does the author’s collaboration mode lead to papers’ different citation impacts? An empirical analysis based on propensity score matching	12
Measuring risk in science	12
Citations optimal growth path: A tool to analyze sensitivity to citations of h-like indexes	12
Editorial Board	12
Deep representation learning of scientific paper reveals its potential scholarly impact	12
Asymmetry of social interactions and its role in link predictability: The case of coauthorship networks	12
Characterizing interdisciplinarity in drug research: A translational science perspective	12
Determination and characteristics of the most visible authors in multi-author publications	12
Rethinking the effect of inter-gender collaboration on research performance for scholars	12

A framework armed with node dynamics for predicting technology convergence	12
Editorial Board	11
Evolution and effect of meeting abstracts in JCR journals	11
Ungendered writing: Writing styles are unlikely to account for gender differences in funding rates in the natural and technical sciences	11
The motivations for and effects of modified fractional counting	11
Corrigendum to [‘To tweet or not to tweet?’ A study of the use of Twitter by scholarly book publishers in Social Sciences and Humanities’, Journal of Informetrics, Volume15, (2021) 1–14/Article101170]	11
Nobel begets Nobel in economics	10
Patent landscape and key technology interaction roadmap using graph convolutional network – Case of mobile communication technologies beyond 5G	10
Predicting the citation count and CiteScore of journals one year in advance	10
Editorial Board	10
Corrigendum to “Societal and scientific impact of policy research: A large-scale empirical study of some explanatory factors using Altmetric and Overton” [Journal of Informetrics 18/3 (2024) 101530]	10
Bibliographic coupling networks reveal the advantage of diversification in scientific projects	10
Influence of interdisciplinarity on scientific impact: The case of climate change field	10
Annotating scientific uncertainty: A comprehensive model using linguistic patterns and comparison with existing approaches	10
How to detect the sleeping beauty papers and princes in technology considering indirect citations?	10
New components and combinations: The perspective of the internal collaboration networks of scientific teams	10
Community-guided link prediction in multiplex networks	10
Understanding writing styles of scientific papers in the IS-LS domain: Evidence from abstracts over the past three decades	10
Affiliation homogeneity and scientific impact: A comparative study across nations	9
Exploring the potential of novel research proposals as signals of successful national R&D: A case study on energy and resource sector in South Korea	9
Assessing academic impacts of machine learning applications on a social science: Bibliometric evidence from economics	9
A new approach to computing the distances between research disciplines based on researcher collaborations and similarity measurement techniques	9
Evaluation and identification of potential high-value patents in the field of integrated circuits using a multidimensional patent indicators pre-screening strategy and machine learning approaches	9
Development and application of a comprehensive glossary for the identification of statistical and methodological concepts in peer review reports	9
Quantifying the impact of digital technology on enterprise processes using LLM-based causal claim networks	9
Authorship regulations in performance-based funding systems and publication behaviour – A case study of German medical faculties	9
A simple equation for rank-citation profiles	9
Entropy, heterogeneity, and their impact on technology progress	9
Power Laws in altmetrics: An empirical analysis	9
Tree knowledge structure for better insight: Capturing biomedical science-technology knowledge linkage with MeSH	9
Collaboration networks and radical innovation: Two faces of tie strength and structural holes	9
Multi-agent simulation of team stability evolution: A complexity science perspective	9
Linkages among science, technology, and industry on the basis of main path analysis	9
Early identification of breakthrough research from sleeping beauties using machine learning	8
Predicting the evolution of scientific communities by interpretable machine learning approaches	8
Impact of rhetorical devices on citation behavior: persuasion in scientific papers and its effect on reader response	8
Poincare: Recommending Publication Venues via Treatment Effect Estimation	8
Conscientiousness predicts doctoral students’ research productivity	8
Do OpenCitations and Dimensions serve as an alternative to Web of Science for calculating disruption indexes?	8
A novel approach to enterprise technical collaboration: Recommending R&D partners through technological similarity and complementarity	8
Relations among the h-, g-, ψ-, and p-index and offset-ability	8
Enhancing semantic text similarity with functional semantic knowledge (FOP) in patents	8
Signatures of capacity development through research collaborations in artificial intelligence and machine learning	8
Earlier recognition of scientific excellence enhances future achievements and promotes persistence	8
Corrigendum to “Small but not least changes: The art of creating disruptive innovations” [Journal of Informetrics, Volume 19 , Issue 3, (August 2025), 101703]	8
Innovation lineage structure: A graph structure in publications of scholars and its association with disruptiveness	8
Dependency, reciprocity, and informal mentorship in predicting long-term research collaboration: A co-authorship matrix-based multivariate time series analysis	8
Impact of COVID-19 on Journal Impact Factor	8
The k-step h-index in citation networks at the paper, author, and institution levels	8
Exploring the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific breakthrough speed: a study based on Nobel Prize-winning papers	8
Exploring perception of retraction based on mentioned status in post-retraction citations	8
Knowledge substitutability and complementarity in scientific collaboration	8
A Dirichlet-Multinomial mixture model of Statistical Science: Mapping the shift of a paradigm	7
Exploring the knowledge certainty shift: Metaknowledge analysis on drugs via assertion uncertainty burstiness	7
Corrigendum to “Automated generation of research workflows from academic papers: a full-text mining framework” [Journal of Informetrics, 19 (2025) 101732]	7
On journal rankings and researchers' abilities	7
Scientific impact analysis: Unraveling the link between linguistic properties and citations	7
An effective framework for measuring the novelty of scientific articles through integrated topic modeling and cloud model	7
Are there stars in Bluesky? A comparative exploratory analysis of altmetric mentions between X and Bluesky	7
On the inequality of citation counts of all publications of individual authors	7
SMIAltmetric: A comprehensive metric for evaluating social media impact of scientific papers on Twitter (X)	7
The mediating impact of citation scope: Evidence from China's ESI publications	7
Scientific knowledge role transition prediction from a knowledge hierarchical structure perspective	7
Citation counts and inclusion of references in seven free-access scholarly databases: A comparative analysis	7
Effectiveness of research grants funded by European Research Council and Polish National Science Centre	7
The determinants and impact of research grants: The case of Brazilian productivity scholarships	7
How does policy information shape its adoption? A citation analysis of large-scale energy policies in China	7
An empirical study of retractions due to honest errors: Exploring the relationship between error types and author teams	7
Editorial Board	7
System for evaluating the reliability and novelty of medical scientific papers	6
Uncited papers in the structure of scientific communication	6
Co-patents in Europe: Methodological concerns, unfolding trends	6
Predicting the popularity of scientific publications by an age-based diffusion model	6
Transparency of reporting practices in quantitative field studies: The transparency sweet spot for article citations	6
DAC: Descendant-aware clustering algorithm for network-based topic emergence prediction	6
Revealing the scientific comparative advantage of nations: Common and distinctive features	6
Developing a topic-driven method for interdisciplinarity analysis	6
The inter-institutional and intra-institutional multi-affiliation authorships in the scientific papers produced by the well-ranked universities	6
Disruption indices and their calculation using web-of-science data: Indicators of historical developments or evolutionary dynamics?	6
Relationship between the principle of least effort and the average cost of information in a zipfian context	6

What makes a successful rebuttal in computer science conferences?: A perspective on social interaction	6
Patent collaborations: From segregation to globalization	6
Is it all bafflegab? – Linguistic and meta characteristics of research articles in prestigious economics journals	6
Document types make the difference	6
Quantifying the impact of a teamwork publication	6
Collaborative Team Recognition: A Core Plus Extension Structure	6
The measurements and determinants of patent technological value: Lifetime, strength, breadth, and dispersion from the technology diffusion perspective	5
Integrating persistence process into the analysis of technology convergence using STERGM	5
Movers’ advantages: The effect of mobility on scientists’ productivity and collaboration	5
How does academic education background affect top researchers’ performance? Evidence from the field of artificial intelligence	5
What makes or breaks competitive research proposals? A mixed-methods analysis of research grant evaluation reports	5
Automatic recognition and classification of future work sentences from academic articles in a specific domain	5
Unveiling intrinsic interactions of science and technology in artificial intelligence using a network portrait divergence approach	5
Bi-layer network analytics: A methodology for characterizing emerging general-purpose technologies	5
Developing a four-entities reinforced rank model to evaluate the topic influence in academic networks	5
Which types of online resource support US patent claims?	5
The internal dynamics of journals’ h-cores over time	5
A new method for measuring the originality of academic articles based on knowledge units in semantic networks	5
Simulation of the h index use at university departments within the bibliometrics-based heuristics framework: Can the indicator be used to compare individual researchers?	5
Measuring the novelty of scientific publications: A fastText and local outlier factor approach	5
Does a gender-neutral name associate with the research impact of a scientist?	5
Implementation of the PaperRank and AuthorRank indices in the Scopus database	5
Geography of science: Competitiveness and inequality	5
A study of referencing changes in preprint-publication pairs across multiple fields	5
Empirical analysis of recent temporal dynamics of research fields: Annual publications in chemistry and related areas as an example	5
How to configure intellectual capital of research teams for triggering scientific breakthroughs: Exploratory study in the field of gene editing	5
A semantic main path analysis method to identify multiple developmental trajectories	5
An exploratory study of Twitter metrics for measuring user influence	5
Extracting the interdisciplinary specialty structures in social media data-based research: A clustering-based network approach	5
Investigating clinical links in edge-labeled citation networks of biomedical research: A translational science perspective	4
Team Size, Research Variety, and Research Performance: Do Coauthors’ Coauthors Matter?	4
Small but not least changes: The art of creating disruptive innovations	4
Rank-based distributions in scientific papers affiliations: Different forms of Zipf's law with and without higher order inverse participation ratios	4
Hidden scales in statistics of citation indicators	4
The academic status of reviewers predicts their language use	4
Integrating prior field knowledge as key documents with main path analysis utilizing key-node path search	4
Do international nonstop flights foster influential research? Evidence from Sino-US scientific collaboration	4
Remarks on modified fractional counting	4
Overcoming recognition delays in disruptive research: The impact of team size, familiarity, and reputation	4
Editorial Board	4
Integration vs segregation: Network analysis of interdisciplinarity in funded and unfunded research on infectious diseases	4
Foundations of Narrative Bibliometrics	4
Corrigendum to “A framework armed with node dynamics for predicting technology convergence” [Journal of Informetrics 18 (2024) 101583]	4
Editorial Board	4
Scientists’ disciplinary characteristics and collaboration behaviour under the convergence paradigm: A multilevel network perspective	4
The many facets of academic mobility and its impact on scholars' career	4
Quantifying delayed recognition of scientists	4
Identification of potential young talented individuals in the natural and life sciences: A bibliometric approach	4
Citation recommendation based on argumentative zoning of user queries	4
Revalidation of the applicability of Altmetrics indicators in article-level evaluation: An empirical analysis of papers of different types of citation trajectories	4
Identifying potential sleeping beauties based on dynamic time warping algorithm and citation curve benchmarking	4
Identifying keyword sleeping beauties: A perspective on the knowledge diffusion process	4
Profiling team exploration strategies of collaborating authors from artificial intelligence in computer science	4
New paper-by-paper classification for Scopus based on references reclassified by the origin of the papers citing them	3
Model uncertainty in the evaluation of the impact of interdisciplinary research in Business Studies: A Multiverse Analysis	3
Top research performance in Poland over three decades: A multidimensional micro-data approach	3
Exploring the “awakening effect” in knowledge diffusion: a case study of publications in the library and information science domain	3
Global informetric impact: A description and definition using bundles	3
Analysis of duplicated publications in Russian journals	3
Gender-specific patterns in the artificial intelligence scientific ecosystem	3
Integrative model for discovering linked topics in science and technology	3
Collaborating with top scientists may not improve paper novelty: A causal analysis based on the propensity score matching method	3
Exploring motivations for algorithm mention in the domain of natural language processing: A deep learning approach	3
Female inventors over time: Factors affecting female Inventors’ innovation performance	3
Measuring the topic-level journal impact: JNIln	3
Exploring interdisciplinary research trends through critical years for interdisciplinary citation	3
Leveraging patent classification based on deep learning: The case study on smart cities and industrial Internet of Things	3
Editorial Board	3
Specialization, field distance, and quality in economists’ collaborations	3
Multidimensional indicators to identify emerging technologies: Perspective of technological knowledge flow	3
The recognition of kernel research team	3
Exploring scientific trajectories of a large-scale dataset using topic-integrated path extraction	3
Understanding interdisciplinary knowledge integration through citance analysis: A case study on eHealth	3
Article ranking with location-based weight in contextual citation network	3
Hyperprolific authorship: Unveiling the extent of extreme publishing in the ‘publish or perish’ era	3
Data labeling through the centralities of co-reference networks improves the classification accuracy of scientific papers	3
Navigating disruptions: The effects of the pandemic on scientific collaboration and research novelty in Hong Kong	3
Capability of non-English-speaking countries for securing a foothold in international journal publishing	3
Deep learning for predicting patent application outcome: The fusion of text and network embeddings	3
The effect of citation behaviour on knowledge diffusion and intellectual structure	3
Robustness, replicability and scalability in topic modelling	3
The relationship between readability and scientific impact: Evidence from emerging technology discourses	3
Team size and its negative impact on the disruption index	3
Open peer review correlates with altmetrics but not with citations: Evidence from Nature Communications and PLoS One	3