RESEARCH ARTICLE Domestic researchers with longer careers generate higher average citation impact but it does not increase over time a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l School of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wolverhampton, UK Nabeil Maflahi and Mike Thelwall Keywords: academic careers, careers, citation impact Citation: Maflahi, N., & Thelwall, M.

RESEARCH ARTICLE A quantitative view of the structure of institutional scientific collaborations using the example of Berlin Aliakbar Akbaritabar1,2 1Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography, Rostock, Germany 2German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW), Berlin, Germany Keywords: Berlin, Berlin University Alliance, bipartite community detection, coauthorship network analysis, disambiguation, internationalization ABSTRACT This paper examines the structure

RESEARCH ARTICLE Total number of papers and in a single percentile fully describes research impact—Revisiting concepts and applications Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro1,2 and Ricardo Brito2 1Departamento de Biotecnología-Biología Vegetal, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avenida Puerta de Hierro 2, 28040, Madrid, Spain 2Departamento de Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica y GISC, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Plaza de las Ciencias 3, 28040, Madrid, Spain Keywords: citation

RESEARCH ARTICLE Matthew effects in science and the serial diffusion of ideas: Testing old ideas with new methods Rudolf Farys1 and Tobias Wolbring2 1Institute of Sociology, University of Bern, Fabrikstr. 8, S-3012 Bern, Switzerland 2School of Business, Economics and Society, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nürnberg, Findelgasse 7/9, D-90402 Nürnberg, Germany Keywords: citations, diffusion, longitudinal modeling, matching, Matthew effect, Nobel Prize ABSTRACT The Matthew effect has become a standard

RESEARCH ARTICLE Inferring the causal effect of journals on citations V. UN. Traag Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, the Netherlands Keywords: Bayesian model, causal inference, citations, journal effects, science of science a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l ABSTRACT Citation: Traag, V. UN. (2021). Inferring the causal effect of

RESEARCH ARTICLE Universality of citation distributions: A new understanding Michael Golosovsky The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401 Jerusalem, Israel a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: citation distribution, citation dynamics, fitness Citation: Golosovsky, M. (2021). Universality of citation distributions: A new understanding. Quantitative Science Studies, 2(2), 527–543.

RESEARCH ARTICLE Attracting new users or business as usual? A case study of converting academic subscription-based journals to open access a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo Lars Wenaas Keywords: journal conversion, open access, science policy Citation: Wenaas, l. (2021). Attracting new users

RESEARCH ARTICLE Textual analysis of artificial intelligence manuscripts reveals features associated with peer review outcome a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l 1École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada 2École de psychologie, Université d’Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Philippe Vincent-Lamarre1,2 and Vincent Larivière1 Citation: Vincent-Lamarre, P., & Larivière, V.

RESEARCH ARTICLE The reinstrumentalization of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in psychological publications: A citation context analysis a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Kai Li School of Information Resource Management, Renmin University of China Keywords: citation context analysis, DSM, instrumentalization, psychology Citation: Li, K. (2021). The reinstrumentalization of

RESEARCH ARTICLE Towards automated analysis of research methods in library and information science Ziqi Zhang1 , Winnie Tam2 , and Andrew Cox1 1Information School, The University of Sheffield 2University of Manchester Library, The University of Manchester Keywords: bibliometrics, content analysis, data mining, library and information science, research methods, text mining ABSTRACT Previous studies of research methods in Library and Information Science (LIS) lack consensus in

RESEARCH ARTICLE Improvement on the association strength: Implementing a probabilistic measure based on combinations without repetition a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Department of Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584CB Utrecht and Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081HV Amsterdam Mathieu P. UN. Steijn Citation:

COMMENTARY Selective referencing and questionable evidence in Strumia’s paper on “Gender issues in fundamental physics” a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Jens Peter Andersen1 , Mathias W. Nielsen2 , and Jesper W. Schneider1 1Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University 2Department of Sociology, Copenhagen University Citation: Andersen, J.

COMMENTARY Gender issues in fundamental physics: Strumia’s bibliometric analysis fails to account for key confounders and confuses correlation with causation a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Philip Ball1, T. Benjamin Britton2 Gina Rippon6 , Erin Hengel3 , Angela Saini7, and Jessica Wade8 , Philip Moriarty4 , Rachel A. Oliver5 , 1Freelance Writer,

RESEARCH ARTICLE Gender issues in fundamental physics: A bibliometric analysis Alessandro Strumia Physicist, Fauglia (Italy) a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: sociology of physics, gender gap in STEM, faculty hiring, bibliometrics, gender differences, sex differences Citation: Strumia, UN. (2021). Gender issues in fundamental physics: A bibliometric analysis. Quantitative Science Studies, 2(1),

RESEARCH ARTICLE Tracing the context in disciplinary classifications: A bibliometric pairwise comparison of five classifications of journals in the social sciences and humanities Linda Sı(cid:1)le1 , Raf Guns1 , Frédéric Vandermoere2 , Gunnar Sivertsen3 , and Tim C. E. Engels1 1Centre for R&D Monitoring, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp, Campus Middelheim—Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium 2Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Università

RESEARCH ARTICLE A multidimensional framework for characterizing the citation impact of scientific publications Yi Bu1,2 , Ludo Waltman3 , and Yong Huang4 1Department of Information Management, Peking University, Beijing, China 2Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA 3Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands 4School of Information Management, Wuhan

RESEARCH ARTICLE Topics as clusters of citation links to highly cited sources: The case of research on international relations a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D 10099 Berlin, Dorotheenstr. 26, Germany Frank Havemann Citation: Havemann, F. (2021). Topics as clusters of citation links to

RESEARCH ARTICLE An analysis of the development of Chinese STM journals in the past 30 years Liu Xiaomin National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: author analysis, article analysis, cited articles, Chinese STM journals, CSCD Citation: Xiaomin, l. (2021). An analysis of the