AbstractThe sustainable development goals (SDGs) are a blueprint for achieving a better and more sustainable future for all by defining priorities and aspirations for 2030. This paper attempts to expand on the United Nations SDGs definition by leveraging the interrelati...

ABSTRACTIntroductionCOVID-19-related (vs. non-related) articles appear to be more expeditiously processed and published in peer-reviewed journals. We aimed to evaluate: (i) whether COVID-19-related preprints were favored for publication, (ii) preprinting trends and publ...

The currently prevailing international ranking systems for institutions are limited in their assessment as they only provide assessments either at an overall level or at very broad subject levels such as Science, Engineering, Medicine, etc. While these rankings have the...

This study aims to analyze 343 retraction notices indexed in the Scopus database, published in 2001-2019, related to scientific articles (co-)written by at least one author affiliated with an Iranian institution. In order to determine reasons for retractions, we merged ...

The growth of the retraction databases reveals the disturbing trend in science and also the rising trend of citations of retracted papers is a serious concern. The objective of the study is to investigate the patterns of retractions through the team size and retracted c...

AbstractThe motivation for our research is the view, widespread among Polish scientists, that under the Communist Party’s rule it was always necessary to refer to Marx, Engels, Lenin or Stalin (we call them ‘classics’), especially in the highly-politicised fields like h...

In bibliometric analysis, ambiguity in author names may lead to erroneous aggregation of records. The author name disambiguation techniques attempt to address this issue by attributing records to the corresponding author. The name disambiguation has been widely studied ...