Are Papers Asking Questions Cited More Frequently in Computer Science?

Are higher quality papers cited more often?

Are top-cited papers more interdisciplinary?

Over the last decade, the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact has been the focus of many bibliometric papers, with diverging results. This paper aims at contributing to this body of research, by analyzing the level of interdisciplinarity, compiled with the Simpson Index, of the top 1% most highly cited papers and of papers with lower citation percentile ranks. Results...

Are astronomical papers with more authors cited more?

Following my previous study of paper length vs. number of citations in astronomy (Stanek 2008), some colleagues expressed an interest in knowing if any correlation exists between citations and the number of authors on an astronomical paper. At least naively, one would expect papers with more authors to be cited more. I test this expectation with the same sample of papers as analyzed in Stanek (...

A Bibliometric Analysis of Highly Cited and General Papers in the Computer Science Field

Computer Science, with its rapid development, has been receiving considerable attention and support from Taiwan’s government. Because of its active performance on the international stage, the authors consider Computer Science a suitable research field to investigate issues regarding highly-cited papers. As the literature review reveals, most studies about highly-cited papers covered the applica...

Are we asking the right questions?