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Citations
5221
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11706
National Ranking
738

Overview

Kayvan Kousha is affiliated with the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on decision sciences and covers several interconnected subfields including statistics, probability and uncertainty; information systems and management; health informatics; information systems; and sociology and political science.

Their scholarly contributions emphasize key topics such as scientometrics and bibliometrics research, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, academic publishing and open access, artificial intelligence in healthcare and education, research data management practices, scientific computing and data management, and health and medical research impacts.

Kousha has published extensively in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Scientometrics
  • Quantitative Science Studies
  • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • Online Information Review

Their work includes several recent papers such as:

  • COVID-19 publications: Database coverage, citations, readers, tweets, news, Facebook walls, Reddit posts (2020, Quantitative Science Studies)
  • Artificial intelligence to support publishing and peer review: A summary and review (2023, Learned Publishing)
  • Factors associating with or predicting more cited or higher quality journal articles: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper (2023, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)

Kayvan Kousha has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Mike Thelwall
  • Emma Stuart
  • Mahshid Abdoli
  • Meiko Makita
  • Jonathan M. Levitt

The research topics Kousha addresses span domains such as academic publishing, health informatics, and data management, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach within the broader decision sciences field. Their investigations into the impact and quality indicators of research outputs contribute to understanding of bibliometrics and scientometric patterns.

Best Publications

  • Google Scholar citations and Google Web-URL citations: A multi-discipline exploratory analysis

    Kayvan Kousha;Mike Thelwall

  • Web of Science and Scopus language coverage

    Miguel-Angel Vera-Baceta;Michael Thelwall;Kayvan Kousha

  • ResearchGate: Disseminating, communicating, and measuring Scholarship?

    Mike Thelwall;Kayvan Kousha

  • Academia.edu: Social network or Academic Network?

    Mike Thelwall;Kayvan Kousha

  • Sources of Google Scholar citations outside the Science Citation Index: A comparison between four science disciplines

    Kayvan Kousha;Kayvan Kousha;Mike Thelwall

  • The role of online videos in research communication: A content analysis of Y ou T ube videos cited in academic publications

    Kayvan Kousha;Mike Thelwall;Mahshid Abdoli

  • Assessing the citation impact of books: The role of Google Books, Google Scholar, and Scopus

    Kayvan Kousha;Mike Thelwall;Somayeh Rezaie

  • Do highly cited researchers successfully use the social web

    Amalia Mas-Bleda;Mike Thelwall;Kayvan Kousha;Isidro F. Aguillo

  • ResearchGate articles: Age, discipline, audience size, and impact

    Mike Thelwall;Kayvan Kousha

  • Can Mendeley bookmarks reflect readership? A survey of user motivations

    Ehsan Mohammadi;Mike Thelwall;Kayvan Kousha

  • Google book search: Citation analysis for social science and the humanities

    Kayvan Kousha;Mike Thelwall

  • Are wikipedia citations important evidence of the impact of scholarly articles and books

    Kayvan Kousha;Mike Thelwall

  • Covid-19 publications: Database coverage, citations, readers, tweets, news, facebook walls, reddit posts

    Kayvan Kousha;Michael Thelwall

  • Web indicators for research evaluation. Part 2: Social media metrics

    Mike Thelwall;Kayvan Kousha

  • Goodreads: A social network site for book readers

    Mike Thelwall;Kayvan Kousha

  • ResearchGate versus Google Scholar: Which finds more early citations?

    Mike Thelwall;Kayvan Kousha

  • Assessing the impact of disciplinary research on teaching: An automatic analysis of online syllabuses

    Kayvan Kousha;Mike Thelwall

  • Web indicators for research evaluation. Part 1: Citations and links to academic articles from the Web

    Mike Thelwall;Kayvan Kousha

  • Using the Web for research evaluation: The Integrated Online Impact indicator

    Kayvan Kousha;Mike Thelwall;Somayeh Rezaie

  • Motivations for URL citations to open access library and information science articles

    Kayvan Kousha;Mike Thelwall

  • Can Amazon.com reviews help to assess the wider impacts of books

    Kayvan Kousha;Mike Thelwall

  • Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy on English-language Twitter

    Mike Thelwall;Kayvan Kousha;Saheeda Thelwall

  • The citation impact of Open Access agricultural research: A comparison between OA and non‐OA publications

    Kayvan Kousha;Mahshid Abdoli

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Thelwall
Mike Thelwall University of Sheffield
Marcus R. Munafò
Marcus R. Munafò University of Bath
Ludo Waltman
Ludo Waltman Leiden University
Paul Wouters
Paul Wouters Leiden University

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