| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping | Scientometrics | 2010 | 8,777 |
| 2 | The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a comparative analysis | Scientometrics | 2016 | 2,046 |
| 3 | Theory and practise of the g-index | Scientometrics | 2006 | 1,592 |
| 4 | Citation review of Lagergren kinetic rate equation on adsorption reactions | Scientometrics | 2004 | 1,444 |
| 5 | The bibliometric analysis of scholarly production: How great is the impact? | Scientometrics | 2015 | 1,310 |
| 6 | Citation-based clustering of publications using CitNetExplorer and VOSviewer | Scientometrics | 2017 | 1,133 |
| 7 | Co-word analysis as a tool for describing the network of interactions between basic and technological research: The case of polymer chemsitry | Scientometrics | 1991 | 1,127 |
| 8 | Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: a longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison | Scientometrics | 2016 | 960 |
| 9 | Negative results are disappearing from most disciplines and countries | Scientometrics | 2012 | 850 |
| 10 | Toward a definition of “bibliometrics” | Scientometrics | 1987 | 830 |
| 11 | The rate of growth in scientific publication and the decline in coverage provided by Science Citation Index | Scientometrics | 2010 | 728 |
| 12 | Is citation analysis a legitimate evaluation tool? | Scientometrics | 1979 | 702 |
| 13 | Mapping the backbone of science | Scientometrics | 2005 | 693 |
| 14 | The Literature of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics | Scientometrics | 2001 | 586 |
| 15 | Mapping knowledge structure by keyword co-occurrence: a first look at journal papers in Technology Foresight | Scientometrics | 2010 | 568 |
| 16 | Fatal attraction: Conceptual and methodological problems in the ranking of universities by bibliometric methods | Scientometrics | 2005 | 567 |
| 17 | Bibliometric monitoring of research performance in the Social Sciences and the Humanities: A Review | Scientometrics | 2006 | 561 |
| 18 | Is science becoming more interdisciplinary? Measuring and mapping six research fields over time | Scientometrics | 2009 | 546 |
| 19 | Which h-index? — A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar | Scientometrics | 2008 | 515 |
| 20 | A Hirsch-type index for journals | Scientometrics | 2006 | 514 |
| 21 | Factors affecting number of citations: a comprehensive review of the literature | Scientometrics | 2016 | 504 |
| 22 | The journal coverage of Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions: A comparative analysis | Scientometrics | 2021 | 481 |
| 23 | Comparison of the Hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment for 147 chemistry research groups | Scientometrics | 2006 | 480 |
| 24 | Patent statistics as indicators of innovative activities: Possibilities and problems | Scientometrics | 1985 | 474 |
| 25 | Studying research collaboration using co-authorships | Scientometrics | 1996 | 469 |
| 26 | Diversity and network coherence as indicators of interdisciplinarity: case studies in bionanoscience | Scientometrics | 2010 | 467 |
| 27 | Impact of bibliometrics upon the science system: Inadvertent consequences? | Scientometrics | 2005 | 431 |
| 28 | A tale of two databases: the use of Web of Science and Scopus in academic papers | Scientometrics | 2020 | 427 |
| 29 | Journal impact measures in bibliometric research | Scientometrics | 2002 | 422 |
| 30 | Problems of citation analysis | Scientometrics | 1996 | 421 |
| 31 | Studies in scientific collaboration | Scientometrics | 1978 | 420 |
| 32 | Is it possible to compare researchers with different scientific interests? | Scientometrics | 2006 | 416 |
| 33 | Sleeping Beauties in science | Scientometrics | 2004 | 408 |
| 34 | New bibliometric tools for the assessment of national research performance: Database description, overview of indicators and first applications | Scientometrics | 1995 | 396 |
| 35 | Reflections on Scientific Collaboration (and its study): Past, Present, and Future | Scientometrics | 2001 | 391 |
| 36 | Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations’ COCI: a multidisciplinary comparison of coverage via citations | Scientometrics | 2021 | 389 |
| 37 | Journal status | Scientometrics | 2006 | 386 |
| 38 | Geographical proximity and scientific collaboration | Scientometrics | 1994 | 376 |
| 39 | Inflationary bibliometric values: The role of scientific collaboration and the need for relative indicators in evaluative studies | Scientometrics | 2004 | 362 |
| 40 | Scientific co-operation in Europe and the citation of multinationally authored papers | Scientometrics | 1991 | 356 |
| 41 | Web of Science use in published research and review papers 1997–2017: a selective, dynamic, cross-domain, content-based analysis | Scientometrics | 2018 | 351 |
| 42 | Relative indicators and relational charts for comparative assessment of publication output and citation impact | Scientometrics | 1986 | 350 |
| 43 | Google Scholar to overshadow them all? Comparing the sizes of 12 academic search engines and bibliographic databases | Scientometrics | 2019 | 348 |
| 44 | Benchmarking scientific output in the social sciences and humanities: The limits of existing databases | Scientometrics | 2006 | 345 |
| 45 | A comparison of Scopus and Web of Science for a typical university | Scientometrics | 2009 | 340 |
| 46 | Bibliometric analysis of tsunami research | Scientometrics | 2007 | 323 |
| 47 | Visualizing the intellectual structure and evolution of innovation systems research: a bibliometric analysis | Scientometrics | 2015 | 311 |
| 48 | Does the h-index for ranking of scientists really work? | Scientometrics | 2005 | 302 |
| 49 | An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output that takes into account the effect of multiple coauthorship | Scientometrics | 2010 | 301 |
| 50 | Patent bibliometrics | Scientometrics | 1994 | 299 |
