Kevin W. Boyack

11.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
92 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Kevin W. Boyack is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Information Systems and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin W. Boyack has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 21 papers in Information Systems and 20 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Kevin W. Boyack's work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (53 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (14 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (13 papers). Kevin W. Boyack is often cited by papers focused on scientometrics and bibliometrics research (53 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (14 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (13 papers). Kevin W. Boyack collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Kevin W. Boyack's co-authors include Richard Klavans, Katy Börner, Chaomei Chen, John P. A. Ioannidis, Henry Small, Jeroen Baas, Joann Keyton, Julie Thompson Klein, Kamau Bobb and Caroline S. Wagner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Kevin W. Boyack

91 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Visualizing knowledge domains

2003 1.2k citations Katy Börner, Kevin W. Boyack et al. profile →
Co‐citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, and direct citation: Which citation approach represents the research front most accurately?

2010 1.0k citations Kevin W. Boyack, Richard Klavans Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology profile →
Mapping the backbone of science

2005 682 citations Kevin W. Boyack, Richard Klavans et al. profile →
Approaches to understanding and measuring interdisciplinary scientific research (IDR): A review of the literature

2010 531 citations Kevin W. Boyack, Katy Börner et al. profile →

Peers

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Katy Börner United States

Henry Small United States

Ronald Rousseau Belgium

Anthony F. J. van Raan Netherlands

Richard Klavans United States

Ismael Ràfols United Kingdom

Henk F. Moed Netherlands

J. E. Hirsch United States

Ying Ding China

Lutz Bornmann Germany

Katy Börner United States

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Countries citing papers authored by Kevin W. Boyack

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin W. Boyack

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kevin W. Boyack. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kevin W. Boyack based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kevin W. Boyack. Kevin W. Boyack is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Boyack, Kevin W.. (2023). Patent data mining method and apparatus. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).

Ioannidis, John P. A., et al.. (2023). Gender imbalances among top-cited scientists across scientific disciplines over time through the analysis of nearly 5.8 million authors. PLoS Biology. 21(11). e3002385–e3002385. 12 indexed citations

Boyack, Kevin W. & Richard Klavans. (2022). An improved practical approach to forecasting exceptional growth in research. Quantitative Science Studies. 3(3). 672–693. 2 indexed citations

Ioannidis, John P. A., Maia Salholz‐Hillel, Kevin W. Boyack, & Jeroen Baas. (2021). The rapid, massive growth of COVID-19 authors in the scientific literature. Royal Society Open Science. 8(9). 210389–210389. 58 indexed citations

Lamers, Wout, Kevin W. Boyack, Vincent Larivière, et al.. (2021). Meta-Research: investigating disagreement in the scientific literature. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 22 indexed citations

Rahkovsky, Ilya, et al.. (2021). AI Research Funding Portfolios and Extreme Growth. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 630124–630124. 13 indexed citations

Waltman, Ludo, Kevin W. Boyack, Giovanni Colavizza, & Nees Jan van Eck. (2020). . Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 49 indexed citations

Ioannidis, John P. A., Ioana A. Cristea, & Kevin W. Boyack. (2020). Work honored by Nobel prizes clusters heavily in a few scientific fields. PLoS ONE. 15(7). e0234612–e0234612. 10 indexed citations

Ioannidis, John P. A., Jeroen Baas, Richard Klavans, & Kevin W. Boyack. (2019). A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field. PLoS Biology. 17(8). e3000384–e3000384. 195 indexed citations

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Colavizza, Giovanni, Kevin W. Boyack, Nees Jan van Eck, & Ludo Waltman. (2017). The Closer the Better: Similarity of Publication Pairs at Different Cocitation Levels. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 69(4). 600–609. 17 indexed citations

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Boyack, Kevin W., Nees Jan van Eck, Giovanni Colavizza, & Ludo Waltman. (2017). Reference behavior in the full text of scientific articles: A large-scale analysis.. ISSI. 787–798. 1 indexed citations

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Colavizza, Giovanni, Kevin W. Boyack, Nees Jan van Eck, & Ludo Waltman. (2017). Exploring the Similarity of Articles Co-cited at Different Levels.. ISSI. 549–560. 3 indexed citations

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Klavans, Richard & Kevin W. Boyack. (2017). The Research Focus of Nations: Economic vs. Altruistic Motivations. PLoS ONE. 12(1). e0169383–e0169383. 18 indexed citations

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Boyack, Kevin W., Richard Klavans, Henry Small, & Lyle Ungar. (2012). Characterizing emergence using a detailed micro-model of science: Investigating two hot topics in nanotechnology. Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology. 2605–2611. 4 indexed citations

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Martin, Shawn, William M. Brown, Richard Klavans, & Kevin W. Boyack. (2011). OpenOrd: an open-source toolbox for large graph layout. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7868. 786806–786806. 172 indexed citations

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Klavans, Richard & Kevin W. Boyack. (2005). Predicting the importance of current papers.. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 55. 455–61. 24 indexed citations

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Boyack, Kevin W., et al.. (2004). Mapping Medline papers, genes, and proteins related to melanoma research. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation, 2004. IV 2004.. 8. 965–971. 12 indexed citations

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Boyack, Kevin W., Brian Wylie, & George S. Davidson. (2002). Domain Visualization Using VxInsight[R] for Science and Technology Management.. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 53(9). 4 indexed citations

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Kahle, Brewster, Mary E. Jackson, Kevin W. Boyack, et al.. (2001). Public Access to Digital Material; A Call to Researchers: Digital Libraries Need Collaboration across Disciplines; Greenstone: Open-Source Digital Library Software; Retrieval Issues for the Colorado Digitization Project's Heritage Database; Report on the 5th European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL 2001; Report on the First Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.. D-Lib Magazine. 7(10). 1 indexed citations

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Boyack, Kevin W., et al.. (1993). Internal pressure loads due to gaseous detonations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 443(1918). 343–366. 7 indexed citations

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