This article surveys topic distributions of the academic literature that employs the terms
bibliometrics, scientometrics, and informetrics. This exploration allows informing on the …

Urban ecology is a rapidly growing research field that has to keep pace with the pressing
need to tackle the sustainability crisis. As an inherently multi‐disciplinary field with close ties …

Clustering scientific publications in an important problem in bibliometric research. We
demonstrate how two software tools, CitNetExplorer and VOSviewer, can be used to cluster …

This article presents findings of a study that aimed to identify key factors in the adoption of e-
commerce. The study involved a bibliometric analysis of statistical information from 408 …

Stakeholders in the science system need to decide where to place their bets. Example
questions include: Which areas of research should get more funding? Who should we hire …

It is clear that the field of migration studies has grown significantly over the past decades.
What is less known is how this growth has taken place. This article combines bibliometric …

Classification schemes for scientific activity and publications underpin a large swath of
research evaluation practices at the organizational, governmental, and national levels …

Global scientific output is expanding exponentially, which in turn calls for a better
understanding of the science of science and especially how the boundaries of scientific …

The use of indicators in research policy and evaluation is widely perceived as problematic.
Responding to demands for explicit normative framings in STI governance, I propose an …

There are many different relatedness measures, based for instance on citation relations or
textual similarity, that can be used to cluster scientific publications. We propose a principled …