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Peter van den Besselaar

Peter van den Besselaar

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
40
Citations
6187
World Ranking
5398
National Ranking
218

Overview

Peter van den Besselaar is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Decision Sciences, with a notable emphasis on subfields such as Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems and Management, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics, including scientometrics and bibliometrics research, health and medical research impacts, health systems, economic evaluations and quality of life, academic publishing and open access, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, aortic aneurysm repair treatments, and management and organizational studies.

Recent publications by Peter van den Besselaar include the following:

  • "What is research funding, how does it influence research, and how is it recorded? Key dimensions of variation" (2023, Scientometrics)
  • "The effect of writing style on success in grant applications" (2022, Journal of Informetrics)
  • "Bibliometrically Disciplined Peer Review: on Using Indicators in Research Evaluation" (2020, Scholarly Assessment Reports)
  • "The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds" (2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Retraction of Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences lacks justification" (2022, Scientometrics)

Peter van den Besselaar has frequently published in several academic journals. The most common publication venues include:

  • Scientometrics
  • Journal of Informetrics
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their collaborations often involve multiple coauthors. Frequent collaborators are:

  • Charlie Mom (6 coauthored works)
  • Ulf Sandström (4 coauthored works)
  • Mike Thelwall (2 coauthored works)
  • Gerald Schweiger (2 coauthored works)
  • Adrian Barnett (2 coauthored works)

Best Publications

  • A retrospective look at PD projects

    Andrew Clement;Peter Van den Besselaar

  • Disciplinary, Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary: Concepts and Indicators.

    Peter Van Den Besselaar;Gaston Heimeriks

  • Gender differences in scientific productivity: a persisting phenomenon?

    Pleun van Arensbergen;Inge van der Weijden;Peter van den Besselaar

  • Mapping research topics using word-reference co-occurrences: A method and an exploratory case study

    Peter van den Besselaar;Gaston Heimeriks

  • Comparing the evolution of national research policies: what patterns of change?

    Benedetto Lepori;Peter van den Besselaar;Michael Dinges;Bianca Potì

  • Gender differences in research performance and its impact on careers: a longitudinal case study

    Peter Van Den Besselaar;Ulf Sandström

  • Vicious circles of gender bias, lower positions, and lower performance: Gender differences in scholarly productivity and impact.

    Peter van den Besselaar;Ulf Sandström

  • Understanding societal impact through productive interactions: ICT research as a case

    Stefan de Jong;Katharine Barker;Deborah Cox;Thordis Sveinsdottir

  • Mapping change in scientific specialties: a scientometric reconstruction of the development of artificial intelligence

    Peter van den Besselaar;Loet Leydesdorff

  • Quantity and/or Quality? The Importance of Publishing Many Papers.

    Ulf Sandström;Peter van den Besselaar

  • From small scale to large scale user participation: a case study of participatory design in e-government systems

    Anne-Marie Oostveen;Peter van den Besselaar

  • Past performance, peer review and project selection: a case study in the social and behavioral sciences

    P.A.A. van den Besselaar;L. Leydesdorff

  • Mapping communication and collaboration in heterogeneous research networks

    Gaston Heimeriks;Marianne Hörlesberger;Peter Van Den Besselaar

  • A meta-evaluation of scientific research proposals: Different ways of comparing rejected to awarded applications

    Lutz Bornmann;Loet Leydesdorff;Peter Van den Besselaar;Peter Van den Besselaar

  • Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches

    Makoto Tanabe;Peter van den Besselaar;Toru Ishida

  • Indicators for comparative analysis of public project funding: concepts, implementation and evaluation

    Benedetto Lepori;Peter van den Besselaar;Michael Dinges;Barend van der Meulen

  • Tracking areas of strategic importance using scientometric journal mappings

    Loet Leydesdorff;Susan Cozzens;Peter Van den Besselaar

  • Evaluation of research in context - an approach and two cases

    Stefan P L de Jong;Pleun van Arensbergen;Floortje Daemen;Barend van der Meulen

  • Early career grants, performance, and careers: A study on predictive validity of grant decisions

    Peter van den Besselaar;Ulf Sandström

  • Models of Science Dynamics

    Andrea Scharnhorst;Katy Börner;Peter van den Besselaar

  • Internet Voting Technologies and Civic Participation: The Users’ Perspective

    Anne-Marie Oostveen;Peter Van Den Besselaar

Frequent Co-Authors

Loet Leydesdorff
Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam
Koen Frenken
Koen Frenken Utrecht University
Lutz Bornmann
Lutz Bornmann Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Peter P. Groenewegen
Peter P. Groenewegen Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Geoffrey C. Bowker University of California, Irvine
Ismael Rafols
Ismael Rafols Leiden University

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