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2022
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Netherlands
2022

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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123
Citations
71919
World Ranking
20
National Ranking
1

Engineering and Technology

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133
Citations
74139
World Ranking
25
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Loet Leydesdorff was affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research focused on various aspects of innovation, scientometrics, and the dynamics of knowledge within social and economic systems.

The main fields of Leydesdorff's work included:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Decision Sciences
  • Social Sciences

Leydesdorff's subfields of study covered topics such as:

  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Strategy and Management
  • Information Systems and Management

Their work addressed key topics including:

  • University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
  • Scientometrics and bibliometrics research
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Innovation, Technology, and Society
  • Regional Development and Policy
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition

Leydesdorff authored several papers, notably:

  • The measurement of "interdisciplinarity" and "synergy" in scientific and extra-scientific collaborations (2020, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)
  • Triple, Quadruple, and Higher-Order Helices: Historical Phenomena and (Neo-)Evolutionary Models (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Triple, Quadruple, and Higher-Order Helices: Historical Phenomena and (Neo-)Evolutionary Models (2022, Triple Helix Journal)

Frequent co-authors who contributed alongside Leydesdorff included:

  • Lutz Bornmann
  • Lin Zhang
  • Caroline S. Wagner
  • Inga Ivanova
  • Helen Lawton Smith

Their research was published in various venues, with multiple publications in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (20 publications)
  • Scientometrics (8 publications)
  • El Profesional de la Informacion (3 publications)
  • Journal of Data and Information Science (3 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (3 publications)

Leydesdorff also authored books published by Springer International Publishing, including:

  • The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge (2021)
  • Higher Education and Job Employability (2022)
  • Reconfiguring National, Institutional and Human Strategies for the 21st Century (2022)

Best Publications

  • The dynamics of innovation: from national systems and "Mode" 2 to a triple helix of university-industry-government relations.

    Henry Etzkowitz;Loet Leydesdorff

  • Universities and the global knowledge economy

    Henry Etzkowitz;L. A. Leydesdorff

  • Emergence of a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations

    Loet Leydesdorff;Henry Etzkowitz

  • The Knowledge-Based Economy

    Loet Leydesdorff

  • Universities and the global knowledge economy : a triple helix of university-industry-government relations

    Henry Etzkowitz;L. A. Leydesdorff

  • The Triple Helix as a model for innovation studies

    Loet Leydesdorff;Henry Etzkowitz

  • Network structure, self-organization and the growth of international collaboration in science

    Caroline S. Wagner;Loet Leydesdorff

  • The Triple Helix, Quadruple Helix, …, and an N-Tuple of Helices: Explanatory Models for Analyzing the Knowledge-Based Economy?

    Loet Leydesdorff

  • Regional Development in the Knowledge-Based Economy: The Construction of Advantage

    Philip Cooke;Loet Leydesdorff

  • A review of theory and practice in scientometrics

    John Mingers;Loet Leydesdorff

  • The dynamics of innovation: from National Systems and

    Henry Etzkowitz;Loet Leydesdorff

  • The Triple Helix - -University-Industry-Government Relations: A Laboratory for Knowledge Based Economic Development

    H. Etzkowitz;L.A. Leydesdorff

  • The endless transition: A “triple helix” of university–industry–government relations

    Henry Etzkowitz;Loet Leydesdorff

  • The Triple Helix -- University-Industry-Government Relations: A Laboratory for Knowledge Based Economic Development

    Henry Etzkowitz;Loet Leydesdorff

  • A global map of science based on the ISI subject categories

    Loet Leydesdorff;Ismael Rafols

  • The triple helix: an evolutionary model of innovations

    Loet Leydesdorff

  • Betweenness centrality as an indicator of the interdisciplinarity of scientific journals

    Loet Leydesdorff

  • The emergence of China as a leading nation in science

    Ping Zhou;Loet Leydesdorff

  • How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research: A comparison between Innovation Studies and Business & Management

    Ismael Rafols;Ismael Rafols;Loet Leydesdorff;Alice O'Hare;Paul Nightingale

  • Triple Helix indicators of knowledge-based innovation systems: Introduction to the special issue

    Loet Leydesdorff;Martin S. Meyer

  • A triple Helix of University-industry-government relations

    L.A. Leydesdorff

Frequent Co-Authors

Lutz Bornmann
Lutz Bornmann Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Ismael Rafols
Ismael Rafols Leiden University
Han Woo Park
Han Woo Park Yeungnam University
Henry Etzkowitz
Henry Etzkowitz International triple helix institute
Martin Meyer
Martin Meyer University of Kent
Peter van den Besselaar
Peter van den Besselaar Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Werner Marx
Werner Marx Max Planck Society
Paul Wouters
Paul Wouters Leiden University
Félix de Moya-Anegón
Félix de Moya-Anegón Spanish National Research Council

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