2015/04/10 by Johann Bauer, Loet Leydesdorff, Bauer, Johann +3
Decision Sciences · Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Academic Publishing and Open Access #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Health Sciences Research and Education #Social Media in Health Education #scientometrics and bibliometrics research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1504.02576
openalex publication_date 2015/04/10 · openalex created_date 2022/10/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
As a follow-up to the highly-cited authors list published by Thomson Reuters\nin June 2014, we analyze the top-1% most frequently cited papers published\nbetween 2002 and 2012 included in the Web of Science (WoS) subject category\n"Information Science & Library Science." 798 authors contributed to 305 top-1%\npublications; these authors were employed at 275 institutions. The authors at\nHarvard University contributed the largest number of papers, when the addresses\nare whole-number counted. However, Leiden University leads the ranking, if\nfractional counting is used.\n Twenty-three of the 798 authors were also listed as most highly-cited authors\nby Thomson Reuters in June 2014 (http://highlycited.com/). Twelve of these 23\nauthors were involved in publishing four or more of the 305 papers under study.\nAnalysis of co-authorship relations among the 798 highly-cited scientists shows\nthat co-authorships are based on common interests in a specific topic. Three\ntopics were important between 2002 and 2012: (1) collection and exploitation of\ninformation in clinical practices, (2) the use of internet in public\ncommunication and commerce, and (3) scientometrics.\n