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D-Index
37
Citations
16704
World Ranking
10439
National Ranking
4360

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Henry Small is affiliated with SciTech Strategies in the United States and has contributed extensively to the intersection of philosophy, history of science, and bibliometrics. Their research spans multiple topics, including philosophy and history of science, scientometrics and bibliometrics research, biomedical text mining and ontologies, academic publishing and open access, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, advanced text analysis techniques, and epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics.

The primary fields of study for Small include Arts and Humanities, with six publications, and Decision Sciences, with four contributions. Their work delves deeper into subfields such as the history and philosophy of science, statistics, probability and uncertainty, molecular biology, information systems and management, and artificial intelligence.

Recent publications by Small highlight their focus on the study of scientific confirmation and Bayesian approaches. These include:

  • Past as prologue: Approaches to the study of confirmation in science (2020, Quantitative Science Studies)
  • Bayesian history of science: The case of Watson and Crick and the structure of DNA (2023, Quantitative Science Studies)
  • The confirmation of scientific theories using Bayesian causal networks and citation sentiments (2022, Quantitative Science Studies)
  • Is scientific knowledge socially constructed? A Bayesian account of Laboratory Life (2023, Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics)

Small's publications have also appeared in Scientometrics, with notable works such as "Retraction of Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences lacks justification" (2022).

Frequent coauthors in Small's research include Giovanni Abramo, Isidro F. Aguillo, Dag W. Aksnes, Kevin W. Boyack, and Quentin L. Burrell. Their work is commonly published in venues such as Scientometrics, Quantitative Science Studies, and Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics.

In recognition of their contributions, Henry Small was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1989.

Best Publications

  • Co-citation in the scientific literature: A new measure of the relationship between two documents

    Henry Small

  • The Structure of Scientific Literatures I: Identifying and Graphing Specialties:

    Henry Small;Belver C. Griffith

  • Visualizing science by citation mapping

    Henry Small

  • Cited Documents as Concept Symbols

    Henry G. Small

  • A Co-Citation Model of a Scientific Specialty: A Longitudinal Study of Collagen Research:

    Henry G. Small

  • Identifying emerging topics in science and technology

    Henry Small;Kevin W. Boyack;Richard Klavans

  • Clustering the science citation index ® using co-citations

    Henry G. Small;E. Sweeney

  • The Structure of Scientific Literatures II: Toward a Macro- and Microstructure for Science

    Belver C. Griffith;Henry G. Small;Judith A. Stonehill;Sandra Dey

  • Tracking and predicting growth areas in science

    Henry Small

  • The geography of science: disciplinary and national mappings

    H Small;E Garfield

  • CO‐CITATION CONTEXT ANALYSIS AND THE STRUCTURE OF PARADIGMS

    Henry Small

  • Clustering the science citation index using co-citations. II. Mapping science

    Henry G. Small;Ed Sweeney;Edward Greenlee

  • Paradigms, citations, and maps of science: a personal history

    Henry Small

  • Citation Context Analysis

    H. Small

  • On the shoulders of Robert Merton: Towards a normative theory of citation

    Henry Small

  • Update on science mapping: Creating large document spaces

    Henry G. Small

  • Modifying the journal impact factor by fractional citation weighting: The audience factor

    Michel Zitt;Henry Small

  • Specialties and disciplines in science and social science: An examination of their structure using citation indexes

    Henry G. Small;Diana Crane

  • Macro-level changes in the structure of co-citation clusters: 1983–1989

    Henry G. Small

  • Citation context analysis of a co-citation cluster: Recombinant-DNA

    Henry G. Small;Edward Greenlee

  • Bibliometrics: Is your most cited work your best?

    John P. A. Ioannidis;Kevin W. Boyack;Henry Small;Aaron A. Sorensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin W. Boyack
Kevin W. Boyack SciTech Strategies
Eugene Garfield
Eugene Garfield University of Pennsylvania
Lyle H. Ungar
Lyle H. Ungar University of Pennsylvania
Katy Börner
Katy Börner Indiana University
Chaomei Chen
Chaomei Chen Drexel University

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