COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest challenge facing humanity after the 1918 Flu pandemic.
The pandemic also poses a massive challenge to the achievement of Sustainable …

Abstract Web of Science and Scopus are two world-leading and competing citation
databases. By using the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation …

We investigate the degree to which impact in science and technology is associated with
surprising breakthroughs, and how those breakthroughs arise. Identifying breakthroughs …

Citation analyses normally investigate the number of citations of publications (eg by people,
institutions or journals) where the information on times cited from the bibliographic …

Theories and theorizing are central to scholarship on public administration (PA). Only a few
attempts have been made to review the theories applied in PA broadly and systematically, to …

Becoming Metric-Wise: A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers aims to inform researchers
about metrics so that they become aware of the evaluative techniques being applied to their …

This article analyses the effect of degree of interdisciplinarity on the citation impact of
individual publications for four different scientific fields. We operationalise interdisciplinarity …

Questions of definition and measurement continue to constrain a consensus on the
measurement of interdisciplinarity. Using Rao-Stirling (RS) Diversity sometimes produces …

Abstract Carayannis and Campbell (2009; 2010) have argued for using quadruple and
quintuple helices as models encompassing and generalizing triple-helix dynamics. In the …

Over the last decade, the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact has
been the focus of many bibliometric papers, with diverging results. This paper aims at …