Theories of innovation emphasize the role of social networks and teams as facilitators of
breakthrough discoveries,,–. Around the world, scientists and inventors are more plentiful …

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 …

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 examines the rise in co-authorship in the Social Sciences over a 34-year period.
It investigates the development in co-authorship in different research fields and discusses …

The Leiden Ranking 2011/2012 is a ranking of universities based on bibliometric indicators
of publication output, citation impact, and scientific collaboration. The ranking includes 500 …

Highly skilled return migrants contribute to the establishment of ties between the home and
host systems. This paper studies how the professional ties, which Argentinean researchers …

The phenomenon of China's rise as an emerging scientific power has been well
documented, yet the development of its social science is less explored. Utilizing up-to-date …

Science is increasingly defined by multidimensional collaborative networks. Despite the
unprecedented growth of scientific collaboration around the globe–the collaborative turn …

Previously, we proposed a research program to analyze spatial aspects of the science
system which we called “spatial scientometrics”(Frenken, Hardeman, & Hoekman, 2009) …

In recent years, the relationship of collaboration among scientists and the citation impact of
papers have been frequently investigated. Most of the studies show that the two variables …