Leo Egghe

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
226 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Leo Egghe is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Leo Egghe has authored 226 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 51 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 49 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Leo Egghe's work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (58 papers), Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (44 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (43 papers). Leo Egghe is often cited by papers focused on scientometrics and bibliometrics research (58 papers), Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (44 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (43 papers). Leo Egghe collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, China and Germany. Leo Egghe's co-authors include Ronald Rousseau, Liming Liang, I. K. Ravichandra Rao, Bihui Jin, Loet Leydesdorff, Raf Guns, G. Van Hooydonk, Ronald W. Rousseau, Christine Michel and Lutz Bornmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientometrics, Information Processing & Management and Journal of Functional Analysis.

In The Last Decade

Leo Egghe

217 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

Theory and practise of th... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 500 1000 1.5k

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Leo Egghe 3.2k 1.3k 1.0k 854 824 226 6.4k
J. E. Hirsch 3.1k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 722 0.7× 631 0.7× 609 0.7× 5 8.4k
A. Schubert 3.5k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 651 0.6× 379 0.4× 596 0.7× 217 6.6k
Félix de Moya Anegón 2.3k 0.7× 1.3k 1.0× 393 0.4× 638 0.7× 501 0.6× 270 5.7k
Anthony F. J. van Raan 4.6k 1.4× 1.6k 1.2× 895 0.9× 829 1.0× 1.2k 1.4× 144 9.4k
Richard Klavans 1.5k 0.5× 759 0.6× 696 0.7× 778 0.9× 492 0.6× 54 4.8k
Ronald Rousseau 4.0k 1.3× 1.9k 1.5× 1.6k 1.6× 1.1k 1.3× 1.1k 1.3× 333 9.7k
Kevin W. Boyack 2.5k 0.8× 1.3k 1.0× 1.0k 1.0× 1.2k 1.4× 658 0.8× 92 7.8k
Henry Small 2.6k 0.8× 1.8k 1.4× 1.1k 1.0× 1.6k 1.9× 682 0.8× 67 9.0k
Blaise Cronin 3.0k 1.0× 1.9k 1.4× 513 0.5× 592 0.7× 316 0.4× 230 7.3k
Cassidy R. Sugimoto 3.5k 1.1× 1.6k 1.3× 672 0.6× 658 0.8× 413 0.5× 170 8.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Egghe, Leo & Ronald Rousseau. (2025). Mathematical reflections on modified fractional counting. Quantitative Science Studies. 6. 796–809.
2.
Egghe, Leo. (2024). Networks and their degree distribution, leading to a new concept of small worlds. Journal of Informetrics. 18(3). 101554–101554.
3.
Egghe, Leo. (2022). Convergence of Impact Measures and Impact Bundles. Journal of Data and Information Science. 7(3). 5–19. 1 indexed citations
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Egghe, Leo. (2014). A general theory of minimal increments for Hirsch-type indices and applications to the mathematical characterization of Kosmulski-indices. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science. 19(3). 41–49.
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Egghe, Leo. (2013). Mathematical characterizations of the Wu- and Hirsch-indices using two types of minimal increments.. Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt). 2 indexed citations
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Egghe, Leo. (2012). Benford's law is a simple consequence of Zipf's law. Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt). 3 indexed citations
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Egghe, Leo. (2012). Theoretical evidence for empirical findings of A. Pulgarin on Lotka’s law. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science. 17(3). 1–15. 4 indexed citations
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Egghe, Leo. (2010). Study of some Editor-in-Chief decision schemes. Annals of Library and Information Studies. 57(3). 184–195. 3 indexed citations
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Egghe, Leo. (2007). Qualitative analysis of the recall-precision relationship in information retrieval. Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt). 2 indexed citations
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Egghe, Leo. (2007). How to improve the h-index. Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt). 2 indexed citations
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Egghe, Leo. (2007). Distributions of the h-index and the g-index. Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt). 5 indexed citations
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Egghe, Leo. (2006). Dynamic h‐index: The Hirsch index in function of time. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58(3). 452–454. 97 indexed citations
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Egghe, Leo. (2005). Journal diffusion factors and their mathematical relations with the number of citations and with the impact factor. Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt). 3 indexed citations
14.
Egghe, Leo. (2005). Elements of concentration theory. Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt). 1 indexed citations
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Egghe, Leo & Ronald Rousseau. (2003). A general framework for relative impact indicators. 27(1). 29–48. 36 indexed citations
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Egghe, Leo & Ronald W. Rousseau. (2001). Elementary statistics for effective library and information management. Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt). 3 indexed citations
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Egghe, Leo. (1993). Exact Probabilistic and Mathematical Proofs of the Relation between the Mean Number of Items per Source in the Bibliography and the Generalized 80/20-Rule.. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 44(7). 2 indexed citations
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Egghe, Leo & Ronald Rousseau. (1991). Informetrics 89/90. Proceedings of the second international Conference on Bibliometrics, Scientometrics and Informetrics London. Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt). 1 indexed citations
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Egghe, Leo & Ronald Rousseau. (1990). Informetrics 89/90 : selection of papers submitted for the second International Conference on Bibliometrics, Scientometrics and Informetrics, London, Ontario, Canada, 5-7 July 1989. Elsevier eBooks. 9 indexed citations
20.
Bellow, Alexandra & Leo Egghe. (1982). Generalized fatou inequalities. Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt). 18(4). 335–365. 3 indexed citations

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