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Citation accuracy, citation noise, and citation bias: A foundation of citation analysis

Lutz Bornmann, Christian Leibel

Citation analysis is widely used in research evaluation to assess the impact of scientific papers. These analyses rest on the assumption that citation decisions by authors are accu…

cs.DL2025★ 1 cited

Introducing multiverse analysis to bibliometrics: The case of team size effects on disruptive research

Christian Leibel, Lutz Bornmann

Although bibliometrics has become an essential tool in the evaluation of research performance, bibliometric analyses are sensitive to a range of methodological choices. Subtle choi…

cs.DL2024★ 9 cited

Specification uncertainty: What the disruption index tells us about the (hidden) multiverse of bibliometric indicators

Christian Leibel, Lutz Bornmann

Following Funk and Owen-Smith (2017), Wu et al. (2019) proposed the disruption index (DI1) as a bibliometric indicator that measures disruptive and consolidating research. When we…

cs.DL2024

A proposal to improve the calculation of the disruption index

Christian Leibel, Lutz Bornmann

Wu et al. (2019) proposed the disruption index (DI1) as a bibliometric indicator that measures disruptive and consolidating research. Leibel and Bornmann (2024) recently published…

cs.DL2023★ 67 cited

What do we know about the disruption index in scientometrics? An overview of the literature

Christian Leibel, Lutz Bornmann

The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the literature on the original disruption index (DI1) and its variants in scientometrics. The DI1 has received much media attent…