RESEARCH ARTICLE COVID-19 publications: Database coverage, citations, readers, tweet, news, Facebook walls, Reddit posts a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK Kayvan Kousha and Mike Thelwall Keywords: altmetrics, COVID 19, Dimensions, Mendeley, Scopus, Web of Science ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic requires

RESEARCH ARTICLE Is “the time ripe” for quantitative research on misconduct in science? Harriet Zuckerman Columbia University, 450 Riverside Drive, New York. New York 10027, U.S.A. a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: bias, deviant behavior, research misconduct, trust in data Citation: Zuckerman, H. (2020). Is “the time ripe” for quantitative research

RESEARCH ARTICLE The impact of J. D. Bernal’s thoughts in the science of science upon China: Implications for today’s quantitative studies of science Yong Zhao1 , Jian Du2 , and Yishan Wu3 1Information Research Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China 2National Institute of Health Data Science, Peking University, Beijing, China 3Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development, Beijing, China Keywords: China’s science of science,

RESEARCH ARTICLE Past as prologue: Approaches to the study of confirmation in science Henry Small SciTech Strategies Inc., Bala Cynwyd, PAPÀ 19004 (USA) a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: Bayesian networks, Bohr’s atom, citation contexts, confirmation in science, constructivism, explanatory coherence Citation: Small, H. (2020). Past as prologue: Approaches to the

RESEARCH ARTICLE From indicators to indicating interdisciplinarity: A participatory mapping methodology for research communities in-the-making a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l 1Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom 2Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University Noortje Marres1 and Sarah de Rijcke2 Citation: Marres, N., & Di

RESEARCH ARTICLE Powerful numbers: Exemplary quantitative studies of science that had policy impact a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: Butler, evidence, Mansfield, Martin and Irvine, Narin Diana Hicks1 and Kimberley R. Isett2 1School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 2Joseph R. Biden Jr. School of Public Policy

RESEARCH ARTICLE Quantitative science studies should be framed with middle-range theories and concepts from the social sciences a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l 1Institute of Sociology, University of Wuppertal, Germany 2Interdisciplinary Center for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT), University of Wuppertal, Germany Thomas Heinze1 and Arlette Jappe2 Citation: Heinze, T., & Jappe,

RESEARCH ARTICLE Geography of scientific knowledge: A proximity approach Koen Frenken Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: citation, controversy, diffusion, mobility, replication, tacit knowledge Citation: Frenken, K. (2020). Geography of scientific knowledge: A proximity approach. Quantitative Science Studies, 1(3), 1007–1016. https://doi. org/10.1162/qss_a_00058

RESEARCH ARTICLE Gender, science, and academic rank: Key issues and approaches Mary Frank Fox School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0345, USA a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: collaboration, practices of evaluation, genere, promotion, rank, science Citation: Fox, M. F. (2020). Gender, science, and academic rank: Key

RESEARCH ARTICLE Against method: Exploding the boundary between qualitative and quantitative studies of science Donghyun Kang1 and James Evans1,2 1Sociology Department, University of Chicago 2Santa Fe Institute Keywords: content analysis, mixed methods, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis, science studies, word embedding ABSTRACT Quantitative and qualitative studies of science have historically played radically different roles with opposing epistemological commitments. Using large-scale text analysis, we see that qualitative

RESEARCH ARTICLE Beyond networks: Aligning qualitative and computational science studies Alberto Cambrosio1 , Jean-Philippe Cointet2 , and Alexandre Hannud Abdo3 1Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Canada 2Sciences Po, Médialab, Paris, France 3Université Paris Est, LISIS, UMR 1326 INRA, Champs sur Marne, Marne-la-Vallée, France Keywords: actor-network theory, computational science studies, hypergraphs, network analysis, stochastic block models ABSTRACT This article examines the thorny issue

RESEARCH ARTICLE Numbers or no numbers in science studies Geoffrey C. Bowker Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, 5019 Donald Bren Hall Irvine, CA 92697-3440 a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: qualitative, quantitative, science studies ABSTRACT This article analyzes my own research

RESEARCH ARTICLE Whose text, whose mining, and to whose benefit? Christine L. Borgman Director, Center for Knowledge Infrastructures, University of California, Los Angeles Keywords: dati, information retrieval, metodi, publishing, scholarship, text a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l ABSTRACT Citation: Borgman, C. l. (2020). Whose text, whose mining, and to whose benefit? Quantitative

RESEARCH ARTICLE A longitudinal analysis of university rankings Friso Selten1 , Cameron Neylon2 , Chun-Kai Huang2 , and Paul Groth1 1Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University, Perth, Australia a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Keywords: comparative analysis, factor analysis, longitudinal analysis, principal component

RESEARCH ARTICLE Informed peer review for publication assessments: Are improved impact measures worth the hassle? Giovanni Abramo1 , Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo2 , and Giovanni Felici3 1Laboratory for Studies in Research Evaluation, Institute for System Analysis and Computer Science (IASI-CNR), National Research Council, Rome, Italy 2University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” Dept of Engineering and Management, Rome, Italy 3Institute for System Analysis and Computer Science (IASI-CNR), National

RESEARCH ARTICLE A gender equality paradox in academic publishing: Countries with a higher proportion of female first-authored journal articles have larger first-author gender disparities between fields a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l Mike Thelwall and Amalia Mas-Bleda Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK Citation: Thelwall,

RESEARCH ARTICLE Using supervised learning to classify metadata of research data by field of study Tobias Weber1 , Dieter Kranzlmüller2 , Michael Fromm3 , and Nelson Tavares de Sousa4 1Munich Network Management Team, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (Germany) 2Munich Network Management Team, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany) 3Database Systems Group, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany) 4Software Engineering Group, Kiel University (Germany) Keywords: fields of study, multilabel classification, research data, supervised

RESEARCH ARTICLE A validation of coauthorship credit models with empirical data from the contributions of PhD candidates a n o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies, Department 2, Research System and Science Dynamics, Schützenstraße 6a, 10117 Berlin, Germany Paul Donner Citation: Donner, P. (2020). A validation