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Overview

Rodrigo Costas is a researcher affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands, specializing in the fields of Decision Sciences and Social Sciences.

Their publication record spans several key subfields, including Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Communication.

Main topics addressed in their work cover scientometrics and bibliometrics research, complex network analysis techniques, wikis in education and collaboration, research data management practices, misinformation and its impacts, scientific computing and data management, and web visibility and informetrics.

Rodrigo Costas has contributed to a range of scholarly venues. These frequent publication platforms include arXiv (Cornell University), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Scientometrics, Quantitative Science Studies, and the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.

Their collaborative work often involves several coauthors, notably Nicolás Robinson-García, Thed N. van Leeuwen, Zhichao Fang, Jonathan Dudek, and Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado.

Recent publications by Rodrigo Costas include:

  • "Link-based approach to study scientific software usage: the case of VOSviewer," 2021, Scientometrics
  • "Open Access uptake by universities worldwide," 2020, PeerJ
  • "A scientometric overview of CORD-19," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Studying the accumulation velocity of altmetric data tracked by Altmetric.com," 2020, Scientometrics
  • "User engagement with scholarly tweets of scientific papers: a large-scale and cross-disciplinary analysis," 2022, Scientometrics

Best Publications

  • Do altmetrics correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective

    Rodrigo Costas;Zohreh Zahedi;Paul Wouters

  • The h-index: Advantages, limitations and its relation with other bibliometric indicators at the micro level

    Rodrigo Costas;Mar ´ õa Bordons

  • How well developed are altmetrics? A cross-disciplinary analysis of the presence of `alternative metrics' in scientific publications

    Zohreh Zahedi;Rodrigo Costas;Paul Wouters

  • How well developed are Altmetrics? Cross-disciplinary analysis of the presence of 'alternative metrics' in scientific publications

    Z. Zahedi;R. Costas;P.F. Wouters;J. Gorraiz

  • Characterizing social media metrics of scholarly papers: the effect of document properties and collaboration patterns

    Stefanie Haustein;Rodrigo Costas;Vincent Larivière

  • Meta-assessment of bias in science.

    Daniele Fanelli;Rodrigo Costas;John P. A. Ioannidis

  • How well developed are Altmetrics? Cross-disciplinary analysis of the presence of alternative metrics in scientific publications?

    Zohreh Zahedi;Rodrigo Costas;Paul Wouters

  • Users, narcissism and control – tracking the impact of scholarly publications in the 21st century

    Rodrigo Costas;Paul Wouters

  • Misconduct Policies, Academic Culture and Career Stage, Not Gender or Pressures to Publish, Affect Scientific Integrity.

    Daniele Fanelli;Rodrigo Costas;Vincent Larivière

  • A bibliometric classificatory approach for the study and assessment of research performance at the individual level: The effects of age on productivity and impact

    Rodrigo Costas;Thed N. van Leeuwen;María Bordons

  • Scientists have most impact when they’re free to move

    Cassidy R. Sugimoto;Nicolas Robinson-Garcia;Dakota S. Murray;Alfredo Yegros-Yegros

  • Is g-index better than h-index? An exploratory study at the individual level

    Rodrigo Costas;María Bordons

  • A bibliometric classificatory approach for the study and assessment of research performance at the individual level: The effects of age on productivity and impact

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  • Interpreting “altmetrics": Viewing acts on social media through the lens of citation and social theories"

    Stefanie Haustein;Timothy D. Bowman;Rodrigo Costas

  • Evidence of Open Access of scientific publications in Google Scholar: a large-scale analysis

    Alberto Martín-Martín;Rodrigo Costas;Rodrigo Costas;Thed N. van Leeuwen;Emilio Delgado López-Cózar

  • Link-based approach to study scientific software usage: the case of VOSviewer

    Enrique Orduña-Malea;Rodrigo Costas;Rodrigo Costas

  • Self-citations at the meso and individual levels: effects of different calculation methods

    Rodrigo Costas;Thed N. van Leeuwen;María Bordons

  • Approaching the “reward triangle”: General analysis of the presence of funding acknowledgments and “peer interactive communication” in scientific publications

    Rodrigo Costas;Thed N. van Leeuwen

  • New data, new possibilities: Exploring the insides of Altmetric.com

    Nicolás Robinson-García;Daniel Torres-Salinas;Zohreh Zahedi;Rodrigo Costas

  • Do age and professional rank influence the order of authorship in scientific publications? Some evidence from a micro-level perspective

    Rodrigo Costas;María Bordons

  • The unbearable emptiness of tweeting-About journal articles.

    Nicolas Robinson-Garcia;Rodrigo Costas;Kimberley Isett;Julia Melkers

  • F1000 recommendations as a new data source for research evaluation : A comparison with citations

    Ludo Waltman;Rodrigo Costas

Frequent Co-Authors

Thed N. van Leeuwen
Thed N. van Leeuwen Leiden University
Vincent Larivière
Vincent Larivière University of Montreal
Paul Wouters
Paul Wouters Leiden University
Cassidy R. Sugimoto
Cassidy R. Sugimoto Indiana University
María Bordons
María Bordons Spanish National Research Council
Anthony F. J. van Raan
Anthony F. J. van Raan Leiden University
Ludo Waltman
Ludo Waltman Leiden University
Nees Jan van Eck
Nees Jan van Eck Leiden University
Ferric C. Fang
Ferric C. Fang University of Washington
Arturo Casadevall
Arturo Casadevall Johns Hopkins University

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