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Quantitative Science Studies
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Quantitative Science Studies

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press

https://direct.mit.edu/qss

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 229 14 44 15

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 59
Documents by Best Scientists*: 123
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 30
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.486
Impact Factor: 3.5

Top Publications

  • Author name disambiguation of bibliometric data: A comparison of several unsupervised approaches

    Alexander Tekles;Alexander Tekles;Lutz Bornmann

    (2020)
    58 Citations
  • Investigating the division of scientific labor using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)

    Vincent Larivière;Vincent Larivière;David Pontille;Cassidy R. Sugimoto

    (2021)
    56 Citations
  • Are disruption index indicators convergently valid? The comparison of several indicator variants with assessments by peers

    Lutz Bornmann;Sitaram Devarakonda;Alexander Tekles;Alexander Tekles;George Chacko

    (2020)
    50 Citations
  • The pricing of open access journals: Diverse niches and sources of value in academic publishing

    Kyle Siler;Koen Frenken

    (2020)
    46 Citations
  • The strain on scientific publishing

    (2024)
    31 Citations
  • A typology of scientific breakthroughs

    Mignon Wuestman;Jarno Hoekman;Koen Frenken

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • Bridging the divide between qualitative and quantitative science studies

    Loet Leydesdorff;Ismael Ràfols;Staša Milojević

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • Large-scale identification and characterization of scholars on Twitter

    Rodrigo Costas;Rodrigo Costas;Philippe Mongeon;Philippe Mongeon;Márcia R. Ferreira;Márcia R. Ferreira;Jeroen van Honk

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • The institutionalized stratification of the Chinese higher education system

    Fei Shu;Cassidy R. Sugimoto;Vincent Larivière

    (2021)
    25 Citations
  • Special issue on bibliographic data sources

    Ludo Waltman;Vincent Larivière;Vincent Larivière

    (2020)
    23 Citations

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