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Overview

Lutz Bornmann is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of decision sciences. Their research spans various subfields, including statistics, probability and uncertainty; sociology and political science; information systems; artificial intelligence; and economics and econometrics.

The main topics addressed in Bornmann's research are scientometrics and bibliometrics research, complex network analysis techniques, misinformation and its impacts, advanced text analysis techniques, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, web visibility and informetrics, and research data management practices.

Bornmann has authored publications in several notable venues, reflecting their ongoing engagement with the academic community. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Scientometrics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Informetrics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • PLoS ONE

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Bornmann's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Robin Haunschild
  • Alexander Tekles
  • Loet Leydesdorff
  • Werner Marx
  • Christian Leibel

Representative recent papers authored by Bornmann include:

  • Disruptive papers published in Scientometrics: meaningful results by using an improved variant of the disruption index originally proposed by Wu, Wang, and Evans (2020, Scientometrics)
  • Growth rates of modern science: a latent piecewise growth curve approach to model publication numbers from established and new literature databases (2021, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications)
  • How relevant is climate change research for climate change policy? An empirical analysis based on Overton data (2022, PLoS ONE)

Additional relevant papers in Bornmann's corpus, reflecting the larger domain of scientometrics, include:

  • Altmetrics and societal impact measurements: Match or mismatch? A literature review (2020, El Profesional de la Informacion)
  • What do we know about the disruption index in scientometrics? An overview of the literature (2023, Scientometrics)

Best Publications

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

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Growth rates of modern science: A bibliometric analysis based on the number of publications and cited references

    Lutz Bornmann;Ruediger Mutz

  • What is societal impact of research and how can it be assessed? a literature survey

    Lutz Bornmann

  • What do we know about the h index

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Do altmetrics point to the broader impact of research? An overview of benefits and disadvantages of altmetrics

    Lutz Bornmann

  • Scientific peer review

    Lutz Bornmann

  • 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

  • Climate Change Research in View of Bibliometrics.

    Robin Haunschild;Lutz Bornmann;Werner Marx

  • Scientometrics in a changing research landscape

    Lutz Bornmann;Loet Leydesdorff

  • Growth rates of modern science: a latent piecewise growth curve approach to model publication numbers from established and new literature databases

    Lutz Bornmann;Robin Haunschild;Rüdiger Mutz

  • Measuring the societal impact of research: research is less and less assessed on scientific impact alone--we should aim to quantify the increasingly important contributions of science to society.

    Lutz Bornmann

  • Alternative metrics in scientometrics: a meta-analysis of research into three altmetrics

    Lutz Bornmann

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

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

  • Detecting the historical roots of research fields by reference publication year spectroscopy RPYS

    Werner Marx;Lutz Bornmann;Andreas Barth;Loet Leydesdorff

  • The new Excellence Indicator in the World Report of the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2011

    Lutz Bornmann;Felix de Moya Anegón;Loet Leydesdorff

  • 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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  • ADVANCES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE What Is Societal Impact of Research and How Can It Be Assessed? A Literature Survey

    Lutz Bornmann

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

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

Frequent Co-Authors

Loet Leydesdorff
Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam
Werner Marx
Werner Marx Max Planck Society
Jürgen Enders
Jürgen Enders University of Bath
Peter van den Besselaar
Peter van den Besselaar Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Félix de Moya-Anegón
Félix de Moya-Anegón Spanish National Research Council
Filippo Radicchi
Filippo Radicchi Indiana University
Ludo Waltman
Ludo Waltman Leiden University
Herbert W. Marsh
Herbert W. Marsh Australian Catholic University

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