Data, measurement and empirical methods in the science of science

L Liu, BF Jones, B Uzzi, D Wang - Nature human behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
The advent of large-scale datasets that trace the workings of science has encouraged
researchers from many different disciplinary backgrounds to turn scientific methods into …

The science of science: From the perspective of complex systems

A Zeng, Z Shen, J Zhou, J Wu, Y Fan, Y Wang… - Physics reports, 2017 - Elsevier
The science of science (SOS) is a rapidly developing field which aims to understand,
quantify and predict scientific research and the resulting outcomes. The problem is …

Examining the usage, citation, and diffusion patterns of bibliometric mapping software: A comparative study of three tools

X Pan, E Yan, M Cui, W Hua - Journal of informetrics, 2018 - Elsevier
This study investigates the use, citation and diffusion of three bibliometric mapping software
tools (CiteSpace, HistCite and VOSviewer) in scientific papers. We first conduct a content …

International research collaboration: Novelty, conventionality, and atypicality in knowledge recombination

CS Wagner, TA Whetsell, S Mukherjee - Research Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Research articles produced through international collaboration are more highly cited than
other work, but are they also more novel? Using measures developed by Uzzi et al.(2013) …

Agent-based computing from multi-agent systems to agent-based models: a visual survey

M Niazi, A Hussain - Scientometrics, 2011 - akjournals.com
Agent-based computing is a diverse research domain concerned with the building of
intelligent software based on the concept of “agents”. In this paper, we use Scientometric …

World citation and collaboration networks: uncovering the role of geography in science

RK Pan, K Kaski, S Fortunato - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
Modern information and communication technologies, especially the Internet, have
diminished the role of spatial distances and territorial boundaries on the access and …

A multi-level systems perspective for the science of team science

K Börner, N Contractor, HJ Falk-Krzesinski… - Science translational …, 2010 - science.org
This Commentary describes recent research progress and professional developments in the
study of scientific teamwork, an area of inquiry termed the “science of team science”(SciTS …

Spatial scientometrics: Towards a cumulative research program

K Frenken, S Hardeman, J Hoekman - Journal of informetrics, 2009 - Elsevier
We propose a research program to analyse spatial aspects of the science system. First, we
provide a review of scientometric studies that already explicitly take the spatial dimension …

Mapping the geography of science: Distribution patterns and networks of relations among cities and institutes

L Leydesdorff, O Persson - Journal of the American Society for …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Using Google Earth, Google Maps, and/or network visualization programs such as
Pajek, one can overlay the network of relations among addresses in scientific publications …

A novel machine-learning approach to measuring scientific knowledge flows using citation context analysis

SU Hassan, I Safder, A Akram, F Kamiran - Scientometrics, 2018 - Springer
We measure the knowledge flows between countries by analysing publication and citation
data, arguing that not all citations are equally important. Therefore, in contrast to existing …