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most citedWhich cities produce excellent papers worldwide more than can be expected? A new mapping approach--using Google Maps--based on statistical significance testing

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cs.DL2011

Mapping excellence in the geography of science: An approach based on Scopus data

Lutz Bornmann, Loet Leydesdorff, Christiane Walch-Solimena +1

As research becomes an ever more globalized activity, there is growing interest in national and international comparisons of standards and quality in different countries and region…

cs.DL20116 cited

The Anna Karenina principle: A concept for the explanation of success in science

Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx

The first sentence of Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina is: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Here Tolstoy means that for a family to…

cs.DL20112 cited

Integrated Impact Indicators (I3) compared with Impact Factors (IFs): An alternative research design with policy implications

Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann

In bibliometrics, the association of "impact" with central-tendency statistics is mistaken. Impacts add up, and citation curves should therefore be integrated instead of averaged.…

cs.DL201124 cited

Which cities produce excellent papers worldwide more than can be expected? A new mapping approach--using Google Maps--based on statistical significance testing

Lutz Bornmann, Loet Leydesdorff

The methods presented in this paper allow for a statistical analysis revealing centers of excellence around the world using programs that are freely available. Based on Web of Scie…

cs.DL20118 cited

The detection of "hot regions" in the geography of science: A visualization approach by using density maps

Lutz Bornmann, Ludo Waltman

Spatial scientometrics has attracted a lot of attention in the very recent past. The visualization methods (density maps) presented in this paper allow for an analysis revealing re…

cs.DL2011

Turning the tables in citation analysis one more time: Principles for comparing sets of documents

Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, Rüdiger Mutz +1

We submit newly developed citation impact indicators based not on arithmetic averages of citations but on percentile ranks. Citation distributions are-as a rule-highly skewed and s…