Background The academic publishing world is changing significantly, with ever-growing
numbers of publications each year and shifting publishing patterns. However, the metrics …

In this paper, a new field-normalized indicator is introduced, which is rooted in early insights
in bibliometrics, and is compared with several established field-normalized indicators (eg …

A central question in science of science concerns how time affects citations. Despite the long-
standing interests and its broad impact, we lack systematic answers to this simple yet …

The study of citation networks is of interest to the scientific community. However, the
underlying mechanism driving individual citation behavior remains imperfectly understood …

The paper presents a large-scale study (covering 26,998,764 items) of the development in
the number of references over time (1996–2019) in three document types (articles; reviews; …

We compared the scientific output of 16 countries from the Middle East during the period
1996–2014 to 27 countries from West Europe and to the average world production …

Quantitative analysis of the scientific literature is important for evaluating the evolution and
state of science. To study how the density of biological literature has changed over the past …

We study the problem of controllable citation text generation by introducing a new concept to
generate citation texts. Citation text generation, as an assistive writing approach, has drawn …

The aim of this study was to determine whether different areas of knowledge presented
different behaviour with regard to the number of references cited per journal document or if …

An exponential growth in research outputs, the great diversity of sources used, and the
number of active researchers in archaeology make it impossible for any individual to present …