Scientific collaboration among various geographically scattered research groups on the
broad topic of “metallic iron (Fe0) for water remediation” has evolved greatly over the past …

The main drawback of ranking of researchers by the number of papers, citations or by the
Hirsch index is ignoring the problem of distributing authorship among authors in multi-author …

Abstract Self-citation patterns of 1,104 journals indexed in the 2018 edition of the Journal
Citation Reports were examined to assess the possibility of underlying rank manipulations …

Citations are widely considered in scientists' evaluation. As such, scientists may be
incentivized to inflate their citation counts. While previous literature has examined self …

Highly cited papers are influenced by external factors that are not directly related to the
document's intrinsic quality. In this study, 50 characteristics for measuring the performance of …

This study investigates the coevolution of coauthorship and citation networks and their
influence on scientific metrics such as the h-index and journal impact factors. Using a …

The h-index was proposed by Hirsch in 2005. It is now often used as a measure of scientific
performance of individual researchers. Assuming that it has predictive power, the index is …

Author-based metrics (ABMs) and journal-based metrics (JBMs), as well as citations, are the
dominant currency of intellectual recognition in academia. These metrics and citations …

Editors have increasing pressure as scholarly publishing tries to shore up trust and reassure
academics and the public that traditional peer review is robust, fail-safe, and corrective …

In this letter, we focus on a very curious and bibliometrically important case of a 2017 moth
pheromone paper published in Cell Press' Current Biology that has already accumulated …