• Computing scientometrics in large-scale academic search engines with MapReduce 

      Akritidis, L.; Bozanis, P. (2012)
      Apart from the well-established facility of searching for research articles, the modern academic search engines also provide information regarding the scientists themselves. Until recently, this information was limited to ...
    • Gazing at the skyline for star scientists 

      Sidiropoulos A., Gogoglou A., Katsaros D., Manolopoulos Y. (2016)
      Admittedly, despite the plethora of scientometric indices proposed to rank scientists, none of them can fully capture the performance and impact of a scientist, since each index quantifies only one or a few aspects of ...
    • Identifying attractive research fields for new scientists 

      Akritidis, L.; Katsaros, D.; Bozanis, P. (2012)
      Prior to the beginning of a scientific career, every new scientist is obliged to confront the critical issue of defining the subject area where his/her future research will be conducted. Regardless of the capabilities of ...
    • Measuring science in our highly digitized world 

      Manolopoulos Y., Katsaros D. (2018)
      During the past two decades the availability of scholarly data repositories such as Google Scholar, Elsevier Scopus offered tremendous opportunities to the field of scientometrics to analyze the dynamics of science and ...
    • Metrics and rankings: Myths and fallacies 

      Manolopoulos Y., Katsaros D. (2017)
      In this paper we provide an introduction to the field of Bibliometrics. In particular, first we briefly describe its beginning and its evolution; we mention the main research fora as well. Further we categorize metrics ...
    • The science of science and a multilayer network approach to scientists’ ranking 

      Sideris G., Sidiropoulos A., Katsaros D., Manolopoulos Y. (2018)
      The deluge of data on scholarly output created unique opportunities for identifying the drivers of modern science, for studying career paths of scientists, and for measuring the research performance. These massive data and ...