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most citedWhich type of citation analysis generates the most accurate taxonomy of scientific and technical knowledge?

345 citations

7 papers

cs.CY2022★ 11 cited

Award rate inequities in biomedical research

Alessandra Zimmermann, Richard Klavans, Heather Offhaus +2

The analysis of existing institutional research proposal databases can provide novel insights into science funding parity. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 56 cited

How relevant is climate change research for climate change policy? An empirical analysis based on Overton data

Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild, Kevin Boyack +2

Climate change is an ongoing topic in nearly all areas of society since many years. A discussion of climate change without referring to scientific results is not imaginable. This i…

cs.DL2020★ 28 cited

A Novel Approach to Predicting Exceptional Growth in Research

Richard Klavans, Kevin W. Boyack, Dewey A. Murdick

The prediction of exceptional or surprising growth in research is an issue with deep roots and few practical solutions. In this study we develop and validate a novel approach to fo…

cs.DL2017

Characterizing in-text citations in scientific articles: A large-scale analysis

Kevin W. Boyack, Nees Jan van Eck, Giovanni Colavizza +1

We report characteristics of in-text citations in over five million full text articles from two large databases - the PubMed Central Open Access subset and Elsevier journals - as f…

cs.DL2017★ 1 cited

Research Portfolio Analysis and Topic Prominence

Richard Klavans, Kevin W. Boyack

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? Which p…

cs.DL2017

The Closer the Better: Similarity of Publication Pairs at Different Co-Citation Levels

Giovanni Colavizza, Kevin W. Boyack, Nees Jan van Eck +1

We investigate the similarities of pairs of articles which are co-cited at the different co-citation levels of the journal, article, section, paragraph, sentence and bracket. Our r…

cs.DL2015★ 345 cited

Which type of citation analysis generates the most accurate taxonomy of scientific and technical knowledge?

Richard Klavans, Kevin W. Boyack

In 1965, Derek de Solla Price foresaw the day when a citation-based taxonomy of science and technology would be delineated and correspondingly used for science policy. A taxonomy n…