{"title":"A framework armed with node dynamics for predicting technology convergence","authors":"Guancan Yang , Jiaxin Xing , Shuo Xu , Yuntian Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101583","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101583","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the rapidly evolving landscape of industrial and societal progress, technology convergence plays a pivotal role. This dynamic process is usually characterized by the emergence of new nodes and new links. With the long-term and recent interests in predicting technology convergence, link prediction has become the primary approach on the basis of large-scale patent data. Though, the problem of node dynamics is still not addressed in the literature. For this purpose, this paper presents a technology convergence prediction framework with three core modules as follows. (1) A candidate node set is introduced during the network construction phase, mimicking the generation of newly-emerging nodes. (2) An inductive graph representation learning approach is deployed to generate feature vectors for newly-emerging nodes as well as existing ones. (3) The evaluation criteria are revised to shift from the predictable range to the actual predicted range, which can provide a more realistic assessment of predictive performance. Finally, experimental results on the domain of cancer drug development validate the feasibility and effectiveness of our framework in capturing the dynamics of technology convergence, especially concerning the relationships of newly emerged nodes and links. This study provides valuable insights into technology convergence dynamics and points to future research and applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48662,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Informetrics","volume":"18 4","pages":"Article 101583"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142130211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disruptive content, cross agglomeration interaction, and agglomeration replacement: Does cohesion foster strength?","authors":"Kun Tang , Baiyang Li , Qiyu Zhu , Lecun Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101570","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101570","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A trend in the academic field is agglomerations among scholars to generate knowledge with a disruptive influence on science and technology; however, the benefits have not been fully substantiated. This paper analyzes over 660,000 papers on artificial intelligence published from 1961 to 2023. We propose a method to calculate the innovative capacity of disruptive knowledge based on the similarity of historical, current, and future keywords, finding that scholars who commence their scientific endeavors earlier possess a heightened capability for disruptive knowledge innovation as <em>Dkc</em> index. The analysis reveals that multiagglomeration scholars have the highest average number of publications and citations, followed by agglomeration-flow scholars. Moreover, a larger agglomeration results in a lower ability to disrupt and consolidate knowledge innovation. Multiagglomeration and agglomeration-flow scholars harm disruptive/consolidative innovations. However, as the agglomeration effect intensifies, these two types of scholars from the disruptive perspective and multiagglomeration scholars from the consolidation perspective have a diminishing marginal effect on innovation capacity. The agglomeration size acts as a partial intermediary in the <em>Multi</em>→<em>Size</em>→<em>Dkc</em> index from the dual perspective and as a full mediator in the <em>Flow</em>→<em>Size</em>→<em>Dkc</em> index from the disruptive perspective, but only with a direct effect from the consolidative perspective.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48662,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Informetrics","volume":"18 4","pages":"Article 101570"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142089112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Big Tech influence over AI research revisited: Memetic analysis of attribution of ideas to affiliation","authors":"Stanisław Giziński , Paulina Kaczyńska , Hubert Ruczyński , Emilia Wiśnios , Bartosz Pieliński , Przemysław Biecek , Julian Sienkiewicz","doi":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101572","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101572","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There exists a growing discourse around the domination of Big Tech on the landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) research, yet our comprehension of this phenomenon remains cursory. This paper aims to broaden and deepen our understanding of Big Tech's reach and power within AI research. It highlights the dominance not merely in terms of sheer publication volume but rather in the propagation of new ideas or <em>memes</em>. Current studies often oversimplify the concept of influence to the share of affiliations in academic papers, typically sourced from limited databases such as arXiv or specific academic conferences.</p><p>The main goal of this paper is to unravel the specific nuances of such influence, determining which AI ideas are predominantly driven by Big Tech entities. By employing network and memetic analysis on AI-oriented paper abstracts and their citation network, we are able to grasp a deeper insight into this phenomenon. By utilizing two databases: <em>OpenAlex</em> and <em>S2ORC</em>, we are able to perform such analysis on a much bigger scale than previous attempts.</p><p>Our findings suggest that while Big Tech-affiliated papers are disproportionately more cited in some areas, the most cited papers are those affiliated with both Big Tech and Academia. Focusing on the most contagious memes, their attribution to specific affiliation groups (Big Tech, Academia, mixed affiliation) seems equally distributed between those three groups. This suggests that the notion of Big Tech domination over AI research is oversimplified in the discourse.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48662,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Informetrics","volume":"18 4","pages":"Article 101572"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157724000841/pdfft?md5=1da519ec197e0affad1838ca39a68f58&pid=1-s2.0-S1751157724000841-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142044641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is open access disrupting the journal business? A perspective from comparing full adopters, partial adopters, and non-adopters","authors":"Xijie Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101574","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101574","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Two decades after the inception of open access publishing (OA), its impact has remained a focal point in academic discourse. This study adopted a disruptive innovation framework to examine OA's influence on the traditional subscription market. It assesses the market power of gold journals (OA full adopters) in comparison with hybrid journals and closed-access journals (partial adopters and non-adopters). Additionally, it contrasts the market power between hybrid journals (partial adopters) and closed-access journals (non-adopters). Using the Lerner index to measure market power through price elasticity of demand, this study employs difference tests and multiple regressions. These findings indicate that OA full adopters disrupt the market power of non-adopting incumbents. However, by integrating the OA option into their business models, partial adopters can effectively mitigate this disruption and expand their influence from the traditional subscription market to the emerging OA paradigm.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48662,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Informetrics","volume":"18 4","pages":"Article 101574"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157724000865/pdfft?md5=ef0511bc214a8e5ff491c6f9ba898a97&pid=1-s2.0-S1751157724000865-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142021567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minghui Qian , Mengchun Zhao , Jianliang Yang , Guancan Yang , Jiayuan Xu , Xusen Cheng
{"title":"A novel approach to enterprise technical collaboration: Recommending R&D partners through technological similarity and complementarity","authors":"Minghui Qian , Mengchun Zhao , Jianliang Yang , Guancan Yang , Jiayuan Xu , Xusen Cheng","doi":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101571","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101571","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Choosing the right partner is a key factor in the success of enterprise R&D cooperation, directly affecting innovation outcomes and market competitiveness. Technical similarity provides a common language and foundational understanding between enterprises, while technical complementarity offers opportunities for knowledge exchange and innovation. However, no previous research has effectively integrated these two features within a collaborator recommendation framework. This study aims to explore a method that combines technological similarity and complementarity for collaborator recommendations. We introduced the Technological Similarity and Complementarity Enhanced Collaborator Recommendation (TSCE-CR) model, which constructs a heterogeneous corporate collaboration network and designs a tailored loss function. This model effectively integrates features of technological similarity and complementarity, enabling the neural network to capture and elucidate the nonlinear and multidimensional relationships in corporate collaborations. Experimental validation on patent data in the field of artificial intelligence demonstrated that our TSCE-CR model excels in identifying potential collaborators, effectively confirming the critical role of technological complementarity in R&D collaboration. This research provides a flexible framework for future studies on collaborator recommendations and offers reliable decision-making support for enterprises in selecting R&D partners.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48662,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Informetrics","volume":"18 4","pages":"Article 101571"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142011228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revalidation of the applicability of Altmetrics indicators in article-level evaluation: An empirical analysis of papers of different types of citation trajectories","authors":"Hao Li, Jianhua Hou","doi":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101573","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101573","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While providers try to control the quality of the data, the applicability of Altmetrics indicators to the assessment of scientific papers remains an open question. One important reason is that the citation counts used to explain and evaluate the applicability of Altmetrics in this regard do not directly and completely reflect the impact and quality of papers. In view of the fact that the introduction of citation trajectory helps to enrich our understanding of the impact and quality of papers, this study first discusses the correlation between citation counts and Altmetrics indicators of papers under different citation trajectory types on the basis of dividing five citation trajectory types and considering possible influences such as field and publication year. Then, after controlling the relevant variables, we construct a multinomial logistic regression with the citation trajectory type as the dependent variable to analyze the possible relationship between Altmetrics and the citation trajectory type of papers. Finally, we construct a decision tree model and a regression model after mixed sampling to verify the robustness of the regression results. The findings reveal that there were significant differences in the performance of Altmetrics indicators among papers with different citation trajectory types. The applicability of Altmetrics for evaluating papers with different citation trajectory types should be judged carefully. At the same time, it is suggested that robust Altmetrics (such as save) can be applied to assess the quality of papers and characterize the citation life cycle.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48662,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Informetrics","volume":"18 4","pages":"Article 101573"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142006332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Do we measure novelty when we analyze unusual combinations of cited references? A validation study of bibliometric novelty indicators based on F1000Prime data” [Journal of Informetrics 13/4 (2019) 100979]","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101544","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101544","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48662,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Informetrics","volume":"18 3","pages":"Article 101544"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157724000579/pdfft?md5=70a2f4cec56b4c4ff1c3146d75aee23f&pid=1-s2.0-S1751157724000579-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141141431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Funding, evaluation, and the performance of national research systems” [J. Informetrics, 12/1 (2018) 365–384]","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101539","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101539","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48662,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Informetrics","volume":"18 3","pages":"Article 101539"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175115772400052X/pdfft?md5=aba89c3216407802f0b87d8226280684&pid=1-s2.0-S175115772400052X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141053619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wojciech Charemza , Michał Lewandowski , Łukasz Woźny
{"title":"On journal rankings and researchers' abilities","authors":"Wojciech Charemza , Michał Lewandowski , Łukasz Woźny","doi":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101559","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joi.2024.101559","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over the last few years, ranking lists of academic journals have become one of the key indicators for evaluating individual researchers, departments and universities. How to optimally design such rankings? What can we learn from commonly used journal ranking lists? To address these questions, we propose a simple, theoretical model of optimal rewards for publication in academic journals. Based on a principal-agent model with researchers' hidden abilities, we characterize the optimal journal reward system, where all available journals are assigned to one of several categories or ranks. We provide a tractable example that has a closed-form solution and allows numerical applications. Finally, we show how to calibrate the distribution of researchers' ability levels implied by the observed journal ranking schemes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48662,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Informetrics","volume":"18 3","pages":"Article 101559"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157724000725/pdfft?md5=dfc68bbe1cad07ec0eb5314739451289&pid=1-s2.0-S1751157724000725-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141947144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}