Journal of Informetrics, Volume 1

Volume 1, Number 1, January 2007

Editorial

Leo Egghe:
Welcome to the Journal of Informetrics. 1
Ronald Rousseau:
The influence of missing publications on the Hirsch index. 2-7
P. Chen, H. Xie, Sergei Maslov, Sidney Redner:
Finding scientific gems with Google's PageRank algorithm. 8-15
Quentin L. Burrell:
Hirsch's h-index: A stochastic model. 16-25
Judit Bar-Ilan, Mark Levene, Ayelet Lin:
Some measures for comparing citation databases. 26-34
Roberto da Silva, Raquel Kolitski Stasiu, Viviane Moreira Orengo, Carlos A. Heuser:
Measuring quality of similarity functions in approximate data matching. 35-46
Tove Faber Frandsen:
Journal self-citations - Analysing the JIF mechanism. 47-58
Thierry Lafouge:
The source-item coverage of the exponential function. 59-67
Marko A. Rodriguez, Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel:
Mapping the bid behavior of conference referees. 68-82
Lutz Bornmann, Hans-Dieter Daniel:
Gatekeepers of science - Effects of external reviewers' attributes on the assessments of fellowship applications. 83-91
Wolfgang Glänzel:
Characteristic scores and scales: A bibliometric analysis of subject characteristics based on long-term citation observation. 92-102

Ronald N. Kostoff, Elie Geisler:
The unintended consequences of metrics in technology evaluation. 103-114
Leo Egghe:
General evolutionary theory of information production processes and applications to the evolution of networks. 115-122
José M. Soler:
A rational indicator of scientific creativity. 123-130
Rudy Prabowo, Mike Thelwall, Mikhail Alexandrov:
Generating overview timelines for major events in an RSS corpus. 131-144
Jonas Lundberg:
Lifting the crown - citation z-score. 145-154
Ricardo Mansilla, E. Köppen, Germinal Cocho, Pedro Miramontes:
On the behavior of journal impact factor rank-order distribution. 155-160
Michael Norris, Charles Oppenheim:
Comparing alternatives to the Web of Science for coverage of the social sciences' literature. 161-169
Quentin L. Burrell:
On the h-index, the size of the Hirsch core and Jin's A-index. 170-177

Special Issue: The Hirsch Index

András Schubert, Wolfgang Glänzel:
A systematic analysis of Hirsch-type indices for journals. 179-184
Jan Beirlant, Wolfgang Glänzel, An Carbonez, Herlinde Leemans:
Scoring research output using statistical quantile plotting. 185-192
Rodrigo Costas, María Bordons:
The h-index: Advantages, limitations and its relation with other bibliometric indicators at the micro level. 193-203
Lutz Bornmann, Hans-Dieter Daniel:
Convergent validation of peer review decisions using the h index: Extent of and reasons for type I and type II errors. 204-213

Regular Articles

Katy Börner, Elisha F. Hardy, Bruce W. Herr, Todd Holloway, W. Bradford Paley:
Taxonomy visualization in support of the semi-automatic validation and optimization of organizational schemas. 214-225
Lutz Bornmann, Rüdiger Mutz, Hans-Dieter Daniel:
Gender differences in grant peer review: A meta-analysis. 226-238
Iain D. Craig, Andrew M. Plume, Marie E. McVeigh, James Pringle, Mayur Amin:
Do open access articles have greater citation impact?: A critical review of the literature. 239-248
Liming Liang, Ronald Rousseau:
Transformations of basic publication-citation matrices. 249-255

Leo Egghe, G. Proot:
The estimation of the number of lost multi-copy documents: A new type of informetrics theory. 257-268
Yoo-Jin Han:
Measuring industrial knowledge stocks with patents and papers. 269-276
Renaud Lambiotte, Marcel Ausloos, Mike Thelwall:
Word statistics in Blogs and RSS feeds: Towards empirical universal evidence. 277-286
Bo Jarneving:
Bibliographic coupling and its application to research-front and other core documents. 287-307
Hildrun Kretschmer, Theo Kretschmer:
Lotka's distribution and distribution of co-author pairs' frequencies. 308-337
Bo Jarneving:
Complete graphs and bibliographic coupling: A test of the applicability of bibliographic coupling for the identification of cognitive cores on the field level. 338-356