In the fast-growing scholarly big data background, social network technologies have recently
aroused widespread attention in academia and industry. The concept of academic social …

Scientometrics is the study of the quantitative aspects of the process of science as a
communication system. It is centrally, but not only, concerned with the analysis of citations in …

INTRODUCTION In most areas of human performance, from sport to engineering, the path to
a major accomplishment requires a steep learning curve and long practice. Science is not …

Background The academic publishing world is changing significantly, with ever-growing
numbers of publications each year and shifting publishing patterns. However, the metrics …

We examined the long-term impact of coauthorship with established, highly-cited scientists
on the careers of junior researchers in four scientific disciplines. Here, using matched pair …

The impact of individual scientists is commonly quantified using citation-based measures.
The most common such measure is the h-index. A scientist's h-index affects hiring …

The lack of predictability of citation-based measures frequently used to gauge impact, from
impact factors to short-term citations, raises a fundamental question: Is there long-term …

" More information is always better, and full information is best. More computation is always
better, and optimization is best." More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our …

With the rapid growth of digital publishing, harvesting, managing, and analyzing scholarly
information have become increasingly challenging. The term Big Scholarly Data is coined …

Here we present the first empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that a gender-
heterogeneous problem-solving team generally produced journal articles perceived to be …