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Hans-Dieter Daniel

Hans-Dieter Daniel

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
44
Citations
10817
World Ranking
4064
National Ranking
33

Overview

Hans-Dieter Daniel is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple subfields and topics related to cognitive neuroscience, reproductive medicine, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, and information systems and management.

The scientist's recent publication record includes works focused on funding and evaluation in scientific research, as well as issues of academic career impact and peer review processes. Their publications are found in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Zeitschrift für Evaluation, Quality & Quantity, and Scientometrics.

Notable papers authored or coauthored by Hans-Dieter Daniel include:

  • Funding Programmes for Internationally Mobile Postdocs: Perceived Impacts on Individuals, Institutions and Society. - An exploratory study (2022), published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific analysis of data on proposals and the decision-making procedure of the FWF with particular focus on the programme "Stand-Alone Projects" in the years 2010-2019 (2022), published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Sollten Förderentscheidungen partiell durch Lotterien ersetzt werden? (2023), published in Zeitschrift für Evaluation
  • How to assess the impact of fellowships on academic careers? Latent transition analyses for funding programmes of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2024), published in Quality & Quantity
  • Scientific publishing without gatekeeping: an empirical investigation of eLife's new peer review process (2025), published in Scientometrics

Hans-Dieter Daniel frequently collaborates with several researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Rüdiger Mutz
  • Jana Bobokova
  • Tobias Wolbring
  • Lutz Bornmann

The main research topics covered in Daniel's work include:

  • Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
  • Science, Research, and Medicine
  • Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions
  • Health and Medical Research Impacts
  • Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
  • Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Best Publications

  • What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • What do we know about the h index

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Are there better indices for evaluation purposes than the h index? A comparison of nine different variants of the h index using data from biomedicine

    Lutz Bornmann;Rüdiger Mutz;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Does the h-index for ranking of scientists really work?

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • The state of h index research. Is the h index the ideal way to measure research performance

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans‐Dieter Daniel;Hans‐Dieter Daniel

  • Citation counts for research evaluation: standards of good practice for analyzing bibliometric data and presenting and interpreting results

    Lutz Bornmann;Rüdiger Mutz;Christoph Neuhaus;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Gender differences in grant peer review: A meta-analysis

    Lutz Bornmann;Ruediger Mutz;Hans-Dieter Daniel;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • A multilevel meta-analysis of studies reporting correlations between the h index and 37 different h index variants

    Lutz Bornmann;Ruediger Mutz;Sven E. Hug;Hans-Dieter Daniel;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • What factors determine citation counts of publications in chemistry besides their quality

    Lutz Bornmann;Hermann Schier;Werner Marx;Hans-Dieter Daniel;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • A reliability-generalization study of journal peer reviews: a multilevel meta-analysis of inter-rater reliability and its determinants.

    Lutz Bornmann;Rüdiger Mutz;Hans-Dieter Daniel;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Are there better indices for evaluation purposes than the h index? A comparison of nine different variants of the h index using data from biomedicine

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  • Gender Effects in the Peer Reviews of Grant Proposals: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Comparing Traditional and Multilevel Approaches

    Herbert W. Marsh;Lutz Bornmann;Rüdiger Mutz;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Data sources for performing citation analysis: an overview

    Christoph Neuhaus;Hans‐Dieter Daniel

  • Guardians of Science: Fairness and Reliability of Peer Review

    Hans-Dieter Daniel;William E. Russey

  • Selection of research fellowship recipients by committee peer review. Reliability, fairness and predictive validity of Board of Trustees' decisions

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Selecting scientific excellence through committee peer review - A citation analysis of publications previously published to approval or rejection of post -doctoral research fellowship applicants

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Convergent validity of bibliometric Google Scholar data in the field of chemistry—Citation counts for papers that were accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition or rejected but published elsewhere, using Google Scholar, Science Citation Index, Scopus, and Chemical Abstracts

    Lutz Bornmann;Werner Marx;Hermann Schier;Erhard Rahm

  • Selecting manuscripts for a high-impact journal through peer review: A citation analysis of communications that were accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition, or rejected but published elsewhere

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Criteria for assessing research quality in the humanities: a Delphi study among scholars of English literature, German literature and art history

    Sven E. Hug;Michael Ochsner;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Multiple publication on a single research study: Does it pay? The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • The h index research output measurement: Two approaches to enhance its accuracy

    Lutz Bornmann;Rüdiger Mutz;Hans-Dieter Daniel;Hans-Dieter Daniel

Frequent Co-Authors

Lutz Bornmann
Lutz Bornmann Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Hans-Peter Blossfeld University of Bamberg
Olaf Köller
Olaf Köller Leibniz Association
Tina Seidel
Tina Seidel Technical University of Munich
Herbert W. Marsh
Herbert W. Marsh Australian Catholic University

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