Network science to predict the next pope

Three researchers analyzed the network of Cardinals before the last election for the new Pope. They analyzed the cardinals based on: Status, measured through Eigenvector centrality (where the value of connections are weighted by the importance of your connections)....

Who publishes in journals like Sustainability? A bibliometric analysis

Recently Khrono reported that the journal “Sustainability” has been removed from the list of journals that give publication points in Norway. The decision cited several issues, including inconsistent and superficial review and editing practices, as well as a vast...

How to build a search in Web of Science

While it is fast and simple to conduct a basic search on Web of Science (WoS), to build a corpus for a bibliometric analysis, the search needs to be precise, with as many relevant articles as possible included, while excluding irrelevant ones, that will just create...

Tweet to increase our citation scores?

Citation scores are berated as being a poor predictor of article quality.. but still the best one available. Scholars are also often judged on citation scores. So the question of how to increase ones citation score is salient. The most important is of course to...