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Measuring Contextual Citation Impact of Scientific Journals

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New bibliometric tools for the assessment of national research performance: Database description, overview of indicators and first applications

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Towards a new crown indicator: Some theoretical considerations

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Language biases in the coverage of the Science Citation Index and its consequencesfor international comparisons of national research performance

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Clustering thescience citation index ® using co-citations

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Lifting the crown—citation z-score

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Citation Analysis May Severely Underestimate the Impact of Clinical Research as Compared to Basic Research

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Green light for business sustainability: A bibliometric analysis on the integration of green technologies within business strategy

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Income Inequality in Relation to Policies, Taxes, and Gender: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Research diversification and impact: the case of national nanoscience development

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Within the Numbers: Rethinking Bibliometric Evaluation in Academic Medicine

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Transformative impacts of technological developments on architectural education: a holistic scientometric analysis

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Improving the normalization effect of mean-based method from the perspective of optimization: optimization-based linear methods and their performance

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Tracking changes in CNCI: the complementarity of standard, collaboration and fractional CNCI in understanding and evaluating research performance

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Can we track the geography of surnames based on bibliographic data?Preprint

Robinson‐García, N., Noyons, E., & Costas, R. (2015) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1503.05443 · Cited by 4

Research Assessment Using Early Citation InformationPreprint

Bruns, S. B., & Stern, D. I. (2015) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.2602151 · Cited by 4

An indicator of the impact of journals based on the percentage of their highly cited publications

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Methods and Practices for Institutional Benchmarking based on Research Impact and Competitiveness: A Case Study of ShanghaiTech University

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Citation Classes: A Distribution-based Approach for Evaluative Purposes

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Andrei Fedorov’s impact: a scientometric analysis

Vasserman, E. (2023) · Perspectives · doi:10.1080/0907676x.2023.2165954 · Cited by 3

P-score: a reputation bibliographic index that complements citation counts

Veneroso, J. M. D. F., Dias, M., Ueda, A., Ribas, S., Ribeiro-Neto, B. A., Ziviani, N., & Silva, E. D. S. E. (2019) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/s11192-019-03247-0 · Cited by 3

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

Bornmann, L., & Marx, W. (2014) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1410.5772 · Cited by 3

Banana for scale: Gauging trends in academic interest by normalising publication rates to common and innocuous keywordsPreprint

Dalmaijer, E. S., van Rheede, J. J., Sperr, E., & Tkotz, J. (2021) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2102.06418 · Cited by 3

Two separated worlds: On the preference of influence in life science and biomedical research

Gu, Z. (2025) · Journal of Informetrics · doi:10.1016/j.joi.2025.101641 · Cited by 3

Pros and Cons of the Impact Factor in a Rapidly Changing Digital World

McAleer, M. J., Oláh, J., & Popp, J. (2018) · Journal of Reviews on Global Economics · doi:10.6000/1929-7092.2018.07.25 · Cited by 2

Some modifications to the SNIP journal impact indicatorPreprint

Waltman, L., van Eck, N. J., van Leeuwen, T. N., & Visser, M. S. (2012) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1209.0785 · Cited by 2

Science mapping and research evaluation : a novel methodology for creating normalized citation indicators and estimating their stability

Colliander, C. (2014) · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · Cited by 2

How to Measure the Researcher Impact with the Aid of its Impactable Area: A Concrete Approach Using Distance Geometry

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Toward Reliable Forward Snowballing in Systematic Literature Reviews: A Comparative Study and Framework Proposal

Januário, J., Nicolau, M. I., Felizardo, K. R., & Pereira, J. A. (2025) · Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software (SBES) · doi:10.5753/sbes.2025.11559 · Cited by 2

A bibliometric review of vehicle to grid in coupled energy power and transportation systems

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Modeling the presence of higher education institutions in global rankings: evidence from Brazil using SciVal indicators

Wilhelm, E. M. D. S., dos Santos, C. B., Cantorani, J. R. H., & Pìlatti, L. A. (2026) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/s11192-026-05626-w · Cited by 1

Publication impact in sponge chemical and microbial ecology

Sacristán‐Soriano, O., & Becerro, M. A. (2016) · Scientia Marina · doi:10.3989/scimar.04466.04a · Cited by 1

On Different Ranking Methods

Rusinowska, A. (2021) · Indian statistical institute series · doi:10.1007/978-981-16-4737-6_6 · Cited by 1

On an approach to boosting a journal’s citation potential

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Research status and trends in Operations Research and Management Science (OR/MS) journals: A bibliometric analysis based on the Web of Science database 2001-2012Preprint

Dorta–González, P., Dorta-González, M. I., Peñate, D. R. S., & Suárez‐Vega, R. (2014) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1410.4774

The temporal change of citation practice and its influence on the Journal Impact Factor.

Tadashi, K., & Onodera, N. (2015) · Joho Chishiki Gakkaishi · doi:10.2964/jsik_2015_004

Dimensions of The Author Citation Potential.

Dorta–González, P., Dorta-González, M. I., & Suárez‐Vega, R. (2015) · Acceda (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)

Normalizing Scientometric Indicators Of Individual Publications Using Local Cluster Detection Methods On Citation Networks

Varga, L., Deritei, D., Ercsey-Ravasz, M., Florian, R. V., Lázár, Z. I., Papp, I., & Járai-Szabó, F. (2018) · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · doi:10.5281/zenodo.1474564

The utilization of paper-level classification system on the evaluation of journal impactPreprint

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A bibliometric analysis of the highest cited and highest category normalised articles in radiological literature from 2009-2019.Preprint

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McAleer, M. J., Oláh, J., & Popp, J. (2018) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.3124931

Цитируемость, показатели цитируемости и качество исследований: обзор базовых понятий и теорий

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