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Overview

Kevin W. Boyack is affiliated with SciTech Strategies in the United States and specializes in Decision Sciences, with a focus on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems and Management, History and Philosophy of Science, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Their research covers multiple key topics, including:

  • Scientometrics and bibliometrics research
  • Academic Publishing and Open Access
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Academic Writing and Publishing
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Kevin W. Boyack has contributed to a variety of scientific articles published in well-known venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators (2020, PLoS Biology)
  • Assessment of transparency indicators across the biomedical literature: How open is open? (2021, PLoS Biology)
  • The rapid, massive growth of COVID-19 authors in the scientific literature (2021, Royal Society Open Science)
  • Untitled paper (2020, Archivio istituzionale della ricerca - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
  • Massive covidization of research citations and the citation elite (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kevin W. Boyack include:

  • John P. A. Ioannidis
  • Richard Klavans
  • Jeroen Baas
  • Ludo Waltman
  • Nees Jan van Eck

Publications have frequently appeared in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Biology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Quantitative Science Studies
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Visualizing knowledge domains

    Katy Börner;Chaomei Chen;Kevin W. Boyack

  • Co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, and direct citation: Which citation approach represents the research front most accurately?

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  • Mapping the backbone of science

    Kevin W. Boyack;Richard Klavans;Katy Börner

  • Approaches to understanding and measuring interdisciplinary scientific research (IDR): A review of the literature

    Caroline S. Wagner;J. David Roessner;Kamau Bobb;Julie Thompson Klein

  • Co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, and direct citation: Which citation approach represents the research front most accurately?

    Kevin W. Boyack;Richard Klavans

  • Identifying emerging topics in science and technology

    Henry Small;Kevin W. Boyack;Richard Klavans

  • Which Type of Citation Analysis Generates the Most Accurate Taxonomy of Scientific and Technical Knowledge

    Richard Klavans;Kevin W. Boyack

  • A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field

    John P. A. Ioannidis;Jeroen Baas;Richard Klavans;Kevin W. Boyack

  • OpenOrd: an open-source toolbox for large graph layout

    Shawn Martin;W. Michael Brown;Richard Klavans;Kevin W. Boyack

  • Clustering More than Two Million Biomedical Publications: Comparing the Accuracies of Nine Text-Based Similarity Approaches

    Kevin W. Boyack;David Newman;David Newman;Russell J. Duhon;Richard Klavans

  • Toward a consensus map of science

    Richard Klavans;Kevin W. Boyack

  • Design and update of a classification system: the UCSD map of science.

    Katy Börner;Katy Börner;Richard Klavans;Michael Patek;Angela M. Zoss

  • Reproducible research practices, transparency, and open access data in the biomedical literature, 2015-2017.

    Joshua D. Wallach;Kevin W. Boyack;John P. A. Ioannidis

  • Toward a consensus map of science

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  • Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days

    John P. A. Ioannidis;Richard Klavans;Kevin W. Boyack

  • Domain visualization using VxInsight for science and technology management

    Kevin W. Boyack;Brian N. Wylie;George S. Davidson

  • Identifying a better measure of relatedness for mapping science

    Richard Klavans;Kevin W. Boyack

  • Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators.

    John P. A. Ioannidis;Kevin W. Boyack;Jeroen Baas

  • Mapping the structure and evolution of chemistry research

    Kevin W. Boyack;Katy Börner;Richard Klavans

  • Indicator-assisted evaluation and funding of research: visualizing the influence of grants on the number and citation counts of research papers

    Kevin W. Boyack;Katy Börner

  • Mapping knowledge domains: characterizing PNAS.

    Kevin W. Boyack

  • Mapping the backbone of science.

    Richard Klavans;Katy BÞorner;Kevin W. Boyack

Frequent Co-Authors

Katy Börner
Katy Börner Indiana University
Nees Jan van Eck
Nees Jan van Eck Leiden University
Ludo Waltman
Ludo Waltman Leiden University
Henry Small
Henry Small SciTech Strategies
Chaomei Chen
Chaomei Chen Drexel University
Vincent Larivière
Vincent Larivière University of Montreal
Lyle H. Ungar
Lyle H. Ungar University of Pennsylvania
Alan L. Porter
Alan L. Porter Georgia Institute of Technology
Ismael Rafols
Ismael Rafols Leiden University
Michael B. Sinclair
Michael B. Sinclair Sandia National Laboratories

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