Sir, Within the last decades, the increase in the number of researchers in the scientific community has led to an increase in the number of funding and tenure decisions that have to be made. It is therefore a necessity to find simple yet objective measures to compare the scientific achievement of researchers. Hirsch’s h (2005) has been claimed to have these attributes because it incorporates bo...

Reseña sobre Geng, Y., Cao, R., Han, X., Tian, W., Zhang, G. & Wang, X. (2022). Scientists are working overtime: when do scientists download scientific papers? Scientometrics, 127(11), 6413–6429.

Since it is difficult to understand or predict research trends, we proposed methodologies for understanding and predicting research trends in the sciences, focusing on the structures of grants in the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), a Japanese funding agency. Grant applications are suitable for predicting research trends because these are research plans for the future, differe...

Loet LEYDESDORFF is Professor at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) of the University of Amsterdam, Visiting Professor of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) in Beijing, and Honorary Fellow of the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of Sussex. With Henry Etzkowitz, he initiated a series of conferences, work...