Citation impact indicators nowadays play an important role in research evaluation, and
consequently these indicators have received a lot of attention in the bibliometric and …

Complex networks have emerged as a simple yet powerful framework to represent and
analyze a wide range of complex systems. The problem of ranking the nodes and the edges …

Background:'Co-production'is one of the key concepts in evidence-informed policy and
practice–in terms of both its theoretical importance and its practical applications− being …

The large multidisciplinary academic social website ResearchGate aims to help academics
to connect with each other and to publicize their work. Despite its popularity, little is known …

The growing scholarly interest in research top performers comes from the growing policy
interest in research top performance itself. A question emerges: what makes someone a top …

Modeling distributions of citations to scientific papers is crucial for understanding how
science develops. However, there is a considerable empirical controversy on which …

The new excellence indicator in the World Report of the SCImago Institutions Rankings
(SIR) makes it possible to test differences in the ranking in terms of statistical significance …

European academics have been at the centre of ongoing higher education reforms, as
changes in university governance and funding have led to changes in academic work and …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to develop a list of citation classics published in
knowledge management (KM) journals and to analyze the key attributes and characteristics …

A fundamental problem in citation analysis is the prediction of the long-term citation impact
of recent publications. We propose a model to predict a probability distribution for the future …