Based on an idea by Kosmulski, Franceschini et al. (2012, Scientometrics 92(3), 621–641) propose to classify a publication as “successful” when it receives more citations than a specific comparison term (CT). In the intention of the authors CT should be a suitable estimate of the number of citations that a publication – in a certain scientific context and period of time – should potentially ach...

The issue of rigor and relevance has been a longstanding topic of discussion and debate within many areas of business. Among disciplines that are more established than IS, such as marketing and accounting, scholars continue to debate whether academic research has any direct value to managers or employees. Not surprisingly, in disciplines that are much younger – such as IS and entrepreneurship –...

Indexes in scientometrics are based on citations. However, in contrast to the journal impact factor, which gives only the ranking of the scientific journals, ordered by impact factor, indexes in scientometrics are suitable for ranking of scientists, scientific journals and countries. In this paper the h-index, h5-index, the World ranking the top of 25 Highly Cited Researchers (h > 100) and the ...

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introduction: today, in the era of information, the main parameter for scientific assessment of countries, and academic centers is their contributions to the development of science and technology. this study was conducted to evaluate scientific outcomes of ardabil university of medical sciences and its faculty members until the end of july 2014. methods: in a descriptive study on bibliographic ...

background institut pasteur international network (ipin), which includes 32 research institutes around the world, is a network of research and expertise to fight against infectious diseases. a scientometric approach was applied to describe research and collaboration activities of ipin.   methods publications were identified using a manual search of ipin member addresses in science citation inde...

Introduction Bibliometrics, and scientometrics in general, have been enjoying what seems to be an endless party. Far from stopping, the demand for bibliometric indicators from governmental bodies, administrators and researchers, is continuously growing. During this “give me the indicators” phase several solutions have been provided by the community, let say new and more sophisticated indicators...

Team science and collaboration have become crucial to addressing key research questions confronting society. Institutions that are spread across multiple geographic locations face additional challenges. To better understand the nature of cross-campus collaboration within a single institution and the effects of institutional efforts to spark collaboration, we conducted a case study of collaborat...