Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics

An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output

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The History and Meaning of the Journal Impact Factor

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Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research

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Which h-index? — A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar

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The Leiden ranking 2011/2012: Data collection, indicators, and interpretation

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Explaining Australia’s increased share of ISI publications—the effects of a funding formula based on publication counts

Butler, L. (2002) · Research Policy · doi:10.1016/s0048-7333(02)00007-0 · Cited by 450 · see citing works

Beyond bibliometrics: harnessing multidimensional indicators of scholarly impact

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Rivals for the crown: Reply to Opthof and Leydesdorff

van Raan, A. F. J., van Leeuwen, T. N., Visser, M. S., van Eck, N. J., & Waltman, L. (2010) · Journal of Informetrics · doi:10.1016/j.joi.2010.03.008 · Cited by 108 · see citing works

The outflow of academic papers from China: why is it happening and can it be stemmed?

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The Citation: From Culture to Infrastructure

Wouters, P. F. (2014) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/9445.003.0006 · Cited by 76 · see citing works

Reception of Spanish sociology by domestic and foreign audiences differs and has consequences for evaluation

Pineiro, C. L., & Hicks, D. (2014) · Research Evaluation · doi:10.1093/reseval/rvu030 · Cited by 51 · see citing works

Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World

Pranckutė, R. (2021) · Publications · doi:10.3390/publications9010012 · Cited by 2,696 · see citing works

A review of the literature on citation impact indicators

Waltman, L. (2016) · Journal of Informetrics · doi:10.1016/j.joi.2016.02.007 · Cited by 1,356 · see citing works

Citations, Citation Indicators, and Research Quality: An Overview of Basic Concepts and Theories

Aksnes, D. W., Langfeldt, L., & Wouters, P. (2019) · Sage Open · doi:10.1177/2158244019829575 · Cited by 1,257 · see citing works

Large-scale comparison of bibliographic data sources: Scopus, Web of Science, Dimensions, Crossref, and Microsoft Academic

Visser, M., van Eck, N. J., & Waltman, L. (2021) · Quantitative Science Studies · doi:10.1162/qss_a_00112 · Cited by 865 · see citing works

Bibliometrics: Tracking Research Impact by Selecting the Appropriate Metrics

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Relative Citation Ratio (RCR): A New Metric That Uses Citation Rates to Measure Influence at the Article Level

Hutchins, B. I., Yuan, X., Anderson, J. M., & Santangelo, G. M. (2016) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002541 · Cited by 500 · see citing works

Assessing scientists for hiring, promotion, and tenure

Moher, D., Naudet, F., Cristea, I. A., Miedema, F., Ioannidis, J. P. A., & Goodman, S. N. (2018) · PLOS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2004089 · Cited by 462 · see citing works

Web of Science and Scopus Language Coverage

Vera-Baceta, M.-A., Thelwall, M., & Kousha, K. (2019) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/s11192-019-03264-z · Cited by 423 · see citing works

A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field

Ioannidis, J. P. A., Baas, J., Klavans, R., & Boyack, K. W. (2019) · PLOS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384 · Cited by 356 · see citing works

Dimensions: Building Context for Search and Evaluation

Hook, D. W., Porter, S. J., & Herzog, C. (2018) · Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics · doi:10.3389/frma.2018.00023 · Cited by 325 · see citing works

The FAIR guiding principles for data stewardship: fair enough?

Boeckhout, M., Zielhuis, G. A., & Bredenoord, A. L. (2018) · European Journal of Human Genetics · doi:10.1038/s41431-018-0160-0 · Cited by 290 · see citing works

A Review of Literature on Evaluating the Scientific, Social and Political Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities Research

Reale, E., Avramov, D., Canhial, K., Donovan, C., Flecha, R., Holm, P., Larkin, C., Lepori, B., Mosoni-Fried, J., Oliver, E., et al. (2018) · Research Evaluation · doi:10.1093/reseval/rvx025 · Cited by 258 · see citing works

The Application of Bibliometric Analysis: Disciplinary and User Aspects

Ellegaard, O. (2018) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/s11192-018-2765-z · Cited by 253 · see citing works

Why articles are retracted: a retrospective cross-sectional study of retraction notices at BioMed Central

Moylan, E. C., & Kowalczuk, M. K. (2016) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012047 · Cited by 212 · see citing works

Researchers’ Individual Publication Rate Has Not Increased in a Century

Fanelli, D., & Larivière, V. (2016) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0149504 · Cited by 205 · see citing works

Measuring scientific impact beyond academia: An assessment of existing impact metrics and proposed improvements

Ravenscroft, J., Liakata, M., Clare, A., & Duma, D. (2017) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0173152 · Cited by 202 · see citing works

The changing forms and expectations of peer review

Horbach, S. P. J. M., & Halffman, W. (. W. (2018) · Research Integrity and Peer Review · doi:10.1186/s41073-018-0051-5 · Cited by 179 · see citing works

Professional and Citizen Bibliometrics: Complementarities and Ambivalences in the Development and Use of Indicators—a State-of-the-Art Report

Leydesdorff, L., Wouters, P., & Bornmann, L. (2016) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/s11192-016-2150-8 · Cited by 173 · see citing works

Quantity and/or Quality? The Importance of Publishing Many Papers

Sandström, U., & van den Besselaar, P. (2016) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0166149 · Cited by 146 · see citing works

How the publish-or-perish principle divides a science: the case of economists

van Dalen, H. P. (2021) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03786-x · Cited by 128 · see citing works

Editors’ JIF-boosting stratagems – Which are appropriate and which not?

Martin, B. R. (2016) · Research Policy · doi:10.1016/j.respol.2015.09.001 · Cited by 128 · see citing works

To what extent is inclusion in the Web of Science an indicator of journal ‘quality’?

Chavarro, D., Ràfols, I., & Tang, P. (2018) · Research Evaluation · doi:10.1093/reseval/rvy001 · Cited by 115 · see citing works

Measuring Impact in Research Evaluations: A Thorough Discussion of Methods for, Effects of and Problems with Impact Measurements

Bornmann, L. (2017) · Higher Education · doi:10.1007/s10734-016-9995-x · Cited by 117 · see citing works

A Large-Scale Analysis of Impact Factor Biased Journal Self-Citations

Chorus, C., & Waltman, L. (2016) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161021 · Cited by 92 · see citing works

Promoting public access to clinical trial protocols: challenges and recommendations

Chan, A.-W., & Hróbjartsson, A. (2018) · Trials · doi:10.1186/s13063-018-2510-1 · Cited by 84 · see citing works

Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation

Siler, K., & Larivière, V. (2022) · Research Policy · doi:10.1016/j.respol.2022.104608 · Cited by 70 · see citing works

Skewness of Citation Impact Data and Covariates of Citation Distributions: A Large-Scale Empirical Analysis Based on Web of Science Data

Bornmann, L., & Leydesdorff, L. (2017) · Journal of Informetrics · doi:10.1016/j.joi.2016.12.001 · Cited by 72 · see citing works

Academic Evaluation: Universal Instrument? Tool for Development?

Bianco, M., Gras, N., & Sutz, J. (2016) · Minerva · doi:10.1007/s11024-016-9306-9 · Cited by 70 · see citing works

The Pricing of Open Access Journals: Diverse Niches and Sources of Value in Academic Publishing

Siler, K., & Frenken, K. (2020) · Quantitative Science Studies · doi:10.1162/qss_a_00016 · Cited by 64 · see citing works

CiteScore Metrics: Creating Journal Metrics from the Scopus Citation Index

James, C., Colledge, L., Meester, W., Azoulay, N., & Plume, A. (2019) · Learned Publishing · doi:10.1002/leap.1246 · Cited by 63 · see citing works

On the Stability of Citation-Based Journal Rankings

Pajić, D. (2015) · Journal of Informetrics · doi:10.1016/j.joi.2015.08.005 · Cited by 62 · see citing works

Sampling Issues in Bibliometric Analysis

Williams, R., & Bornmann, L. (2016) · Journal of Informetrics · doi:10.1016/j.joi.2015.11.004 · Cited by 58 · see citing works

Self-correction of science: A comparative study of negative citations and post-publication peer review

Bordignon, F. (2020) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03536-z · Cited by 51 · see citing works

Regional and institutional trends in assessment for academic promotion

Lim, B. H., D’Ippoliti, C., Dominik, M., Hernández-Mondragón, A. C., Vermeir, K., Chong, K. K., Hussein, H., Morales-Salgado, V. S., Cloete, K. J., Kimengsi, J. N., et al. (2025) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08422-9 · Cited by 53 · see citing works

Should highly cited items be excluded in impact factor calculation? The effect of review articles on journal impact factor

Lei, L., & Sun, Y. (2020) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/s11192-019-03338-y · Cited by 43 · see citing works

A Comprehensive Examination of the Relation of Three Citation-Based Journal Metrics to Expert Judgment of Journal Quality

Haddawy, P., Hassan, S.-U., Asghar, A., & Amin, S. (2016) · Journal of Informetrics · doi:10.1016/j.joi.2015.12.005 · Cited by 45 · see citing works

Increasing value and reducing waste in stroke research

Berge, E., Salman, R. A.-S., van der Worp, H. B., Stapf, C., Sandercock, P., Sprigg, N., Macleod, M. R., Kelly, P. J., Nederkoorn, P. J., Ford, G. A., et al. (2017) · The Lancet Neurology · doi:10.1016/s1474-4422(17)30078-9 · Cited by 41 · see citing works

Critical Rationalism and the Search for Standard (Field-Normalized) Indicators in Bibliometrics

Bornmann, L., & Marx, W. (2018) · Journal of Informetrics · doi:10.1016/j.joi.2018.05.002 · Cited by 41 · see citing works

Bibliometric reports for institutions: Best practices in a responsible metrics scenario

Cabezas-Clavijo, A., & Torres-Salinas, D. (2021) · Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics · doi:10.3389/frma.2021.696470 · Cited by 36 · see citing works

Citation Success Index − An Intuitive Pair-Wise Journal Comparison Metric

Milojević, S., Radicchi, F., & Bar-Ilan, J. (2017) · Journal of Informetrics · doi:10.1016/j.joi.2016.12.006 · Cited by 33 · see citing works

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

Bornmann, L., & Haunschild, R. (2016) · Online Information Review · doi:10.1108/oir-09-2015-0314 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

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

Bornmann, L., Adams, J., & Leydesdorff, L. (2018) · Journal of Informetrics · doi:10.1016/j.joi.2018.07.009 · Cited by 19 · see citing works

The darker side of quantitative academic performance metrics

Crous, C. J. (2019) · South African Journal of Science · doi:10.17159/sajs.2019/5785 · Cited by 14 · see citing works

Estimating the quality of academic books from their descriptions with ChatGPT

Thelwall, M., & Cox, A. (2025) · The Journal of Academic Librarianship · doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103023 · Cited by 9 · see citing works

What are innovations in peer review and editorial assessment for?

Halffman, W., & Horbach, S. P. J. M. (2020) · Genome Biology · doi:10.1186/s13059-020-02004-4 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Scaling Scientometrics: Dimensions on Google BigQuery as an Infrastructure for Large-Scale Analysis

Hook, D. W., & Porter, S. J. (2021) · Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics · doi:10.3389/frma.2021.656233 · Cited by 8 · see citing works

New Data-Related Roles for Librarians: Using Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization to Increase Visibility of Research Impact

Mani, N. S., Hayes, B. E., Dodd, A., Yu, F., & Cawley, M. A. (2021) · Advances in Library and Information Science · doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-7258-0.ch017 · Cited by 4 · see citing works

A Manifesto for Education

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A Manifesto for Education

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Analogue 0: Manifesto Now! (Again!)

Cull, L., & Daddario, W. (2013) · Open Research (University of Surrey)

Values, education and democracy : manifesto or myth?

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