Quantifying success in science plays a key role in guiding funding allocations, recruitment
decisions, and rewards. Recently, a significant amount of progresses have been made …

In bibliometric and scientometric research, the quantitative assessment of scientific impact
has boomed over the past few decades. Citations, being playing a major role in enhancing …

Hiring appropriate editors, chairs and committee members for academic journals and
conferences is challenging. It requires a targeted search for high profile scholars who are …

Collaboration usually has a positive effect on researchers' productivity: researchers have
become increasingly collaborative, according to recent studies. Numerous studies have …

This paper aims to present an objective quantitative methodology on how to evaluate
individual's scholarly research output using multiple criteria decision analysis. A multiple …

This study introduces an innovative automated model, the Scientists and Researchers
Classification Model (SRCM), which employs data mining and machine-learning techniques …

Recent works aimed to understand how to identify “milestone” scientific papers of great
significance from large-scale citation networks. To this end, previous results found that …

Informal knowledge constantly transitions into formal domain knowledge in the dynamic
knowledge base. This article focuses on an integrative understanding of the knowledge role …

In academia, the research performance of a faculty is evaluated based on the number of
publications, the number of citations, and the impact of publication where one publishes …

This paper presents an index that measures reviewer contribution to editorial processes of
scholarly journals. Following a metaphor of ranking algorithms in sports tournaments, we …