We present CitNetExplorer, a new software tool for analyzing and visualizing citation
networks of scientific publications. CitNetExplorer can for instance be used to study the …

This study enhances main path analysis by proposing several variants to the original
approach. Main path analysis is a bibliometric method capable of tracing the most significant …

The h‐index is a popular bibliometric indicator for assessing individual scientists. We
criticize the h‐index from a theoretical point of view. We argue that for the purpose of …

Detecting emerging research topics is essential, not only for research agencies but also for
individual researchers. Previous studies have created various bibliographic indicators for …

Object Bibliometrics is defined as the study of statistical and mathematical methods used to
quantitatively analyze scientific literature. The application of bibliometrics in neurosurgery is …

The ranking and categorizations of academic articles of a data set have traditionally been
based on the distribution of their total citations. This ranking formed the basis for the …

Previous studies diverged on whether boundary-spanning papers are cited more heavily,
however, there is as yet no research that explains how boundary-spanning papers affect …

Recent research has shifted to investigating knowledge integration in an interdisciplinary
field and measuring the interdisciplinarity. Conventional citation analysis does not consider …

Background Although being a simple and effective index that has been widely used to
evaluate academic output of scientists, the h-index suffers from drawbacks. One critical …

Citations are not equally important. Researchers presented different models and techniques
to identify important citations. However, the features used in these work are relatively limited …