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cs.DL2025★ 2 cited

Citation importance-aware document representation learning for large-scale science mapping

Zhentao Liang, Nees Jan van Eck, Xuehua Wu +2

Effective science mapping relies on high-quality representations of scientific documents. As an important task in scientometrics and information studies, science mapping is often c…

cs.DL2024★ 1 cited

Which topics are best represented by science maps? An analysis of clustering effectiveness for citation and text similarity networks

Juan Pablo Bascur, Suzan Verberne, Nees Jan van Eck +1

A science map of topics is a visualization that shows topics identified algorithmically based on the bibliographic metadata of scientific publications. In practice not all topics a…

cs.DL2022★ 3 cited

Funding Covid-19 research: Insights from an exploratory analysis using open data infrastructures

Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman

To analyse the outcomes of the funding they provide, it is essential for funding agencies to be able to trace the publications resulting from their funding. We study the open avail…

cs.DL2021

Investigating Disagreement in the Scientific Literature

Wout S. Lamers, Kevin Boyack, Vincent Larivière +4

Disagreement is essential to scientific progress. However, the extent of disagreement in science, its evolution over time, and the fields in which it happens, remains poorly unders…

cs.DL2016★ 1 cited

Constructing bibliometric networks: A comparison between full and fractional counting

Antonio Perianes-Rodriguez, Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck

The analysis of bibliometric networks, such as co-authorship, bibliographic coupling, and co-citation networks, has received a considerable amount of attention. Much less attention…

cs.DL2015★ 140 cited

Clustering scientific publications based on citation relations: A systematic comparison of different methods

Lovro Šubelj, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman

Clustering methods are applied regularly in the bibliometric literature to identify research areas or scientific fields. These methods are for instance used to group publications i…

cs.DL2015

Field-normalized citation impact indicators and the choice of an appropriate counting method

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck

Bibliometric studies often rely on field-normalized citation impact indicators in order to make comparisons between scientific fields. We discuss the connection between field norma…

cs.DL2014

CitNetExplorer: A new software tool for analyzing and visualizing citation networks

Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman

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 deve…

cs.DL2012★ 249 cited

Citation analysis may severely underestimate the impact of clinical research as compared to basic research

Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Anthony F. J. van Raan +2

Background: Citation analysis has become an important tool for research performance assessment in the medical sciences. However, different areas of medical research may have consid…

cs.DL2012★ 10 cited

Research collaboration and the expanding science grid: Measuring globalization processes worldwide

Robert J. W. Tijssen, Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck

This paper applies a new model and analytical tool to measure and study contemporary globalization processes in collaborative science - a world in which scientists, scholars, techn…

cs.DL2012★ 1 cited

A new methodology for constructing a publication-level classification system of science

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck

Classifying journals or publications into research areas is an essential element of many bibliometric analyses. Classification usually takes place at the level of journals, where t…

cs.DL2012★ 5 cited

The Leiden Ranking 2011/2012: Data collection, indicators, and interpretation

Ludo Waltman, Clara Calero-Medina, Joost Kosten +7

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

cs.DL2011★ 738 cited

Text mining and visualization using VOSviewer

Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman

VOSviewer is a computer program for creating, visualizing, and exploring bibliometric maps of science. In this report, the new text mining functionality of VOSviewer is presented.…

cs.DL2011★ 2 cited

The inconsistency of the h-index

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck

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 mea…

cs.DL2011

Universality of citation distributions revisited

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck, Anthony F. J. van Raan

Radicchi, Fortunato, and Castellano [arXiv:0806.0974, PNAS 105(45), 17268] claim that, apart from a scaling factor, all fields of science are characterized by the same citation dis…

cs.DL2010

A unified approach to mapping and clustering of bibliometric networks

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck, Ed C. M. Noyons

In the analysis of bibliometric networks, researchers often use mapping and clustering techniques in a combined fashion. Typically, however, mapping and clustering techniques that…

cs.DL2010★ 5 cited

Towards a new crown indicator: An empirical analysis

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck, Thed N. van Leeuwen +2

We present an empirical comparison between two normalization mechanisms for citation-based indicators of research performance. These mechanisms aim to normalize citation counts for…

cs.DL2010

The relation between Eigenfactor, audience factor, and influence weight

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of a number of bibliometric indicators of journal performance. We focus on three indicators in particular, namely the Eigenfactor in…

cs.DL2010★ 1 cited

Rivals for the crown: Reply to Opthof and Leydesdorff

Anthony F. J. van Raan, Thed N. van Leeuwen, Martijn S. Visser +2

We reply to the criticism of Opthof and Leydesdorff [arXiv:1002.2769] on the way in which our institute applies journal and field normalizations to citation counts. We point out wh…

cs.DL2010★ 1 cited

Towards a new crown indicator: Some theoretical considerations

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck, Thed N. van Leeuwen +2

The crown indicator is a well-known bibliometric indicator of research performance developed by our institute. The indicator aims to normalize citation counts for differences among…