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A meta-evaluation of scientific research proposals: Different ways of comparing rejected to awarded applications

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A multilevel meta-analysis of studies reporting correlations between the h index and 37 different h index variants

scientific article (publication date: July 2011)

A new family of cumulative indexes for measuring scientific performance

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A persistent problem. Traditional gender roles hold back female scientists

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A reliability-generalization study of journal peer reviews: a multilevel meta-analysis of inter-rater reliability and its determinants

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Allegation of scientific misconduct increases Twitter attention

scholarly article by Lutz Bornmann et al published 2 February 2018 in Scientometrics

Alternative article-level metrics: The use of alternative metrics in research evaluation

scientific article published on 13 November 2018

Alternative metrics in scientometrics: a meta-analysis of research into three altmetrics

Are papers addressing certain diseases perceived where these diseases are prevalent? The proposal to use Twitter data as social-spatial sensors

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Are there better indices for evaluation purposes than theh index? A comparison of nine different variants of theh index using data from biomedicine

scholarly article from 'Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology' published in 2008

Are there biases in decisions to tweet on scientific papers? A plea for conducting an experimental Twitter study. Technical note

scientific article published on 25 February 2022

Assigning publications to multiple subject categories for bibliometric analysis

article by Lutz Bornmann published 7 January 2014 in Journal of Documentation

At what institutions did Nobel laureates do their prize-winning work? An analysis of biographical information on Nobel laureates from 1994 to 2014.

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Betweenness and diversity in journal citation networks as measures of interdisciplinarity-A tribute to Eugene Garfield

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Bias cut

scientific article published in Nature

Calculating the excellence shift: How efficiently do institutions produce highly cited papers?

article published in 2017

Change of perspective: bibliometrics from the point of view of cited references-a literature overview on approaches to the evaluation of cited references in bibliometrics

scientific article published on 20 August 2016

Citation Environment of Angewandte Chemie

Citation score normalized by cited references (CSNCR): The introduction of a new citation impact indicator

Citations: Indicators of Quality? The Impact Fallacy

Cited references and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) as two different knowledge representations: clustering and mappings at the paper level

scientific article published on 08 October 2016

Climate Change Research in View of Bibliometrics

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Climate and the Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire: A Bibliometric View on an Interdisciplinary Approach to Answer a Most Classic Historical Question

Comments to the response of Rodríguez-Navarro

scientific article published on 14 May 2013

Committee peer review at an international research foundation: predictive validity and fairness of selection decisions on post-graduate fellowship applications

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Construction of a pragmatic base line for journal classifications and maps based on aggregated journal-journal citation relations

scientific article (publication date: November 2016)

Correction

Journal of Informetrics; October 2014

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

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

Criteria Used by a Peer Review Committee for Selection of Research Fellows. A Boolean Probit Analysis

Criteria for Nature Index questioned

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-12-31

Detecting the historical roots of research fields by reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS)

article by Werner Marx et al published 21 November 2013 in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Discontinuities in Citation Relations among Journals: Self-organized Criticality as a Model of Scientific Revolutions and Change

scientific article published in March 2018

Discontinuities in citation relations among journals: self-organized criticality as a model of scientific revolutions and change

Discussion about the new Nature Index

Distribution of women and men among highly cited scientists

Diversity, value and limitations of the journal impact factor and alternative metrics

scientific article published on 23 December 2011

Do Author-Suggested Reviewers Rate Submissions More Favorably than Editor-Suggested Reviewers? A Study on Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

scientific article published on October 14, 2010

Do altmetrics correlate with the quality of papers? A large-scale empirical study based on F1000Prime data.

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Do altmetrics point to the broader impact of research? An overview of benefits and disadvantages of altmetrics

Do scientific advancements lean on the shoulders of giants? A bibliometric investigation of the Ortega hypothesis

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Do universities or research institutions with a specific subject profile have an advantage or a disadvantage in institutional rankings?

article by Lutz Bornmann et al published 21 August 2013 in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Do women have less success in peer review?

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-05-27

Does Gender Matter in Grant Peer Review?: An Empirical Investigation Using the Example of the Austrian Science Fund

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Does evaluative scientometrics lose its main focus on scientific quality by the new orientation towards societal impact?

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Does quality and content matter for citedness? A comparison with para-textual factors and over time

article published in 2015

Does the committee peer review select the best applicants for funding? An investigation of the selection process for two European molecular biology organization programmes

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Does the h-index for ranking of scientists really work?

Efficiency of research performance and the glass researcher

Enhancing the h index for the objective assessment of healthcare researcher performance and impact

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Excellence networks in science: A Web-based application based on Bayesian multilevel logistic regression (BMLR) for the identification of institutions collaborating successfully

Fallout and miss in journal peer review

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Fast growing research on negative emissions

Field-normalized impact factors (IFs): A comparison of rescaling and fractionally counted IFs

Further steps in integrating the platforms of WoS and Scopus: Historiography with HistCite™ and main-path analysis

Gatekeepers of science—Effects of external reviewers’ attributes on the assessments of fellowship applications

Gender Effects in the Peer Reviews of Grant Proposals: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Comparing Traditional and Multilevel Approaches

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Generating clustered journal maps: an automated system for hierarchical classification

scientific article published on 03 January 2017

Getting to yes: the fate of neuroradiology manuscripts rejected by radiology over a 2-year period

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

Global Warming and Tea Production—The Bibliometric View on a Newly Emerging Research Topic

article by Werner Marx et al published 4 July 2017 in Climate

Global nanotribology research output (1996-2010): a scientometric analysis

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Growth rates of modern science: A bibliometric analysis based on the number of publications and cited references

scientific article published on 29 April 2015

Heterogeneity of inter-rater reliabilities of grant peer reviews and its determinants: a general estimating equations approach

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How Efficiently Do Elite US Universities Produce Highly Cited Papers?

How can journal impact factors be normalized across fields of science? An assessment in terms of percentile ranks and fractional counts

How fractional counting of citations affects the impact factor: Normalization in terms of differences in citation potentials among fields of science

How good is research really? Measuring the citation impact of publications with percentiles increases correct assessments and fair comparisons

scientific article published on 12 February 2012

How have the Eastern European countries of the former Warsaw Pact developed since 1990? A bibliometric study

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How long is the peer review process for journal manuscripts? A case study on Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

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How many scientific papers are mentioned in policy-related documents? An empirical investigation using Web of Science and Altmetric data

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How relevant is climate change research for climate change policy? An empirical analysis based on Overton data

scientific article published in 2022

How should the societal impact of research be generated and measured? A proposal for a simple and practicable approach to allow interdisciplinary comparisons

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How to improve the prediction based on citation impact percentiles for years shortly after the publication date?

article by Lutz Bornmann et al published January 2014 in Journal of Informetrics

How to normalize Twitter counts? A first attempt based on journals in the Twitter Index

scientific article published on 27 February 2016

Identifying "hot papers" and papers with "delayed recognition" in large-scale datasets by using dynamically normalized citation impact scores

Identifying landmark publications in the long run using field-normalized citation data

Identifying single influential publications in a research field: new analysis opportunities of the CRExplorer

Influential cited references in FEMS Microbiology Letters: lessons from Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS)

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Integrated impact indicators compared with impact factors: An alternative research design with policy implications

article by Loet Leydesdorff & Lutz Bornmann published 8 August 2011 in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Interdisciplinarity as diversity in citation patterns among journals: Rao-Stirling diversity, relative variety, and the Gini coefficient

Is the promotion of research reflected in bibliometric data? A network analysis of highly cited papers on the Clusters of Excellence supported under the Excellence Initiative in Germany

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Journal peer review as an information retrieval process

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Letter. New Google Scholar section with information on funded publications

scientific article published on 07 June 2021

Macro-indicators of citation impacts of six prolific countries: InCites data and the statistical significance of trends

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Mapping (USPTO) patent data using overlays to Google Maps

scholarly article by Loet Leydesdorff & Lutz Bornmann published 4 May 2012 in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Mapping excellence in the geography of science: An approach based on Scopus data

Mapping the impact of papers on various status groups in excellencemapping.net: a new release of the excellence mapping tool based on citation and reader scores

scientific article published in 2021

Measuring Individual Performance with Comprehensive Bibliometric Reports as an Alternative to h-Index Values.

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Measuring impact in research evaluations: a thorough discussion of methods for, effects of and problems with impact measurements

Measuring the societal impact of research: research is less and less assessed on scientific impact alone--we should aim to quantify the increasingly important contributions of science to society

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Methods for the generation of normalized citation impact scores in bibliometrics: Which method best reflects the judgements of experts?

Multiple publication on a single research study: Does it pay? The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine

Networks of reader and country status: an analysis of Mendeley reader statistics

Normalization of Mendeley reader counts for impact assessment

Normalization of Mendeley reader impact on the reader- and paper-side: A comparison of the mean discipline normalized reader score (MDNRS) with the mean normalized reader score (MNRS) and bare reader counts

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On the meaningful and non-meaningful use of reference sets in bibliometrics

Overlay maps based on Mendeley data: The use of altmetrics for readership networks

scientific article published on 7 July 2015

Panel peer review of grant applications: what do we know from research in social psychology on judgment and decision-making in groups?

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Percentile ranks and the integrated impact indicator (I3)

Philosophy of science viewed through the lense of “Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy” (RPYS)

Plots for visualizing paper impact and journal impact of single researchers in a single graph.

scientific article published on 27 January 2018

Policy documents as sources for measuring societal impact: how often is climate change research mentioned in policy-related documents?

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Potential sources of bias in research fellowship assessments: effects of university prestige and field of study

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Productivity does not equal usefulness

Professional and citizen bibliometrics: complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators-a state-of-the-art report

scientific article published on 03 October 2016

Proposal of a minimum constraint for indicators based on means or averages

Proposal of using scaling for calculating field-normalized citation scores

Quality assurance in higher education – meta-evaluation of multi-stage evaluation procedures in Germany

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Ranking and mapping of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide based on highly-cited papers

Recent Developments in China–U.S. Cooperation in Science

Reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) of Eugene Garfield's publications

scientific article published on 5 December 2017

Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy applied to iMetrics: Scientometrics, Journal of Informetrics, and a relevant subset of JASIST

Response to Stephen Holgate

scientific article published on 20 January 2015

Row-column (RC) association model applied to grant peer review

Scientometrics in a changing research landscape: bibliometrics has become an integral part of research quality evaluation and has been changing the practice of research

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Selecting manuscripts for a high-impact journal through peer review: A citation analysis of communications that were accepted byAngewandte Chemie International Edition, or rejected but published elsewhere

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Selecting scientific excellence through committee peer review - A citation analysis of publications previously published to approval or rejection of post-doctoral research fellowship applicants

Selection of research fellowship recipients by committee peer review. Reliability, fairness and predictive validity of Board of Trustees' decisions

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Sequence analysis of annually normalized citation counts: an empirical analysis based on the characteristic scores and scales (CSS) method

scientific article published on 19 September 2017

Skewness of citation impact data and covariates of citation distributions: A large-scale empirical analysis based on Web of Science data

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Slow reception and under-citedness in climate change research: A case study of Charles David Keeling, discoverer of the risk of global warming.

scientific article published on 16 May 2017

Social origin and gender of doctoral degree holders

Some interesting insights from aggregated data published in the World Report SIR 2010

Statistical significance and effect sizes of differences among research universities at the level of nations and worldwide based on the leiden rankings

Statistical tests and research assessments: A comment on Schneider (2012)

Testing differences statistically with the Leiden ranking

scientific article published on 26 January 2012

The European Union, China, and the United States in the top-1% and top-10% layers of most-frequently cited publications: Competition and collaborations

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The Journal Impact Factor Should Not Be Discarded

scientific article published on February 2017

The Relative Influences of Government Funding and International Collaboration on Citation Impact

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

The Role of Climate in the Collapse of the Maya Civilization: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Discourse

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

The Social Systems Citation Theory (SSCT): A proposal to use the social systems theory for conceptualizing publications and their citations links

scientific article published in 2022

The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds

scientific article published on 2 December 2024

The detection of “hot regions” in the geography of science—A visualization approach by using density maps

scholarly article by Lutz Bornmann & Ludo Waltman published October 2011 in Journal of Informetrics

The effectiveness of the peer review process: inter-referee agreement and predictive validity of manuscript refereeing at Angewandte Chemie

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The generation of large networks from Web of Science data

The geography of references in elite articles: Which countries contribute to the archives of knowledge?

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

The graduation shift of German universities of applied sciences

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

The h index research output measurement: Two approaches to enhance its accuracy

scientific article (publication date: July 2010)

The interest of the scientific community in expert opinions from journal peer review procedures

The journal Impact Factor and alternative metrics: A variety of bibliometric measures has been developed to supplant the Impact Factor to better assess the impact of individual research papers

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

The negative effects of citing with a national orientation in terms of recognition: National and international citations in natural-sciences papers from Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK

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The negative effects of citing with a national orientation in terms of recognition: national and international citations in papers from Germany, the Netherlands, and UK

scientific article published on 3 February 2018

The new Excellence Indicator in the World Report of the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2011

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The number of linked references of publications in Microsoft Academic in comparison with the Web of Science

The research guarantors of scientific papers and the output counting: a promising new approach

The state of h index research. Is the h index the ideal way to measure research performance?

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The use of percentiles and percentile rank classes in the analysis of bibliometric data: Opportunities and limits

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The usefulness of peer review for selecting manuscripts for publication: a utility analysis taking as an example a high-impact journal

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The validation of (advanced) bibliometric indicators through peer assessments: A comparative study using data from InCites and F1000

To what extent does the Leiden manifesto also apply to altmetrics? A discussion of the manifesto against the background of research into altmetrics

Topical connections between the institutions within an organisation (institutional co-authorships, direct citation links and co-citations)

Turning the tables on citation analysis one more time: Principles for comparing sets of documents

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Usefulness of altmetrics for measuring the broader impact of research

Validity of altmetrics data for measuring societal impact: A study using data from Altmetric and F1000Prime

Visualizing the context of citations referencing papers published by Eugene Garfield: a new type of keyword co-occurrence analysis

scientific article published on 2 December 2017

What are the top five journals in economics? A new meta-ranking

What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior

scientific article (publication date: 18 January 2008)

What do we know about theh index?

What is societal impact of research and how can it be assessed? a literature survey

What is the effect of country-specific characteristics on the research performance of scientific institutions? Using multi-level statistical models to rank and map universities and research-focused institutions worldwide

What proportion of excellent papers makes an institution one of the best worldwide? Specifying thresholds for the interpretation of the results of the SCImago Institutions Ranking and the Leiden Ranking

Which Are the “Best” Cities for Psychology Research Worldwide?

Which are the best performing regions in information science in terms of highly cited papers? Some improvements of our previous mapping approaches

Which aspects of the Open Science agenda are most relevant to scientometric research and publishing? An opinion paper

scientific article published in 2021

Which cities produce more excellent papers than can be expected? A new mapping approach, using Google Maps, based on statistical significance testing

scholarly article by Lutz Bornmann & Loet Leydesdorff published 28 July 2011 in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Which differences can be expected when two universities in the Leiden Ranking are compared? Some benchmarks for institutional research evaluations

Which differences can be expected when two universities in the Leiden Ranking are compared? Some benchmarks for institutional research evaluations

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Which early works are cited most frequently in climate change research literature? A bibliometric approach based on Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy.

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Which of the world's institutions employ the most highly cited researchers? An analysis of the data from highlycited.com

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

Which people use which scientific papers? An evaluation of data from F1000 and Mendeley

Which percentile-based approach should be preferred for calculating normalized citation impact values? An empirical comparison of five approaches including a newly developed citation-rank approach (P100)

h-Index research in scientometrics: A summary

article published in 2014

hα: the scientist as chimpanzee or bonobo