Mihai Păunescu

974 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 697 citations indexed

About

Mihai Păunescu is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Political Science and International Relations and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mihai Păunescu has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 697 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 3 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 3 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Mihai Păunescu's work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (4 papers), Regional resilience and development (2 papers) and Higher Education Governance and Development (2 papers). Mihai Păunescu is often cited by papers focused on scientometrics and bibliometrics research (4 papers), Regional resilience and development (2 papers) and Higher Education Governance and Development (2 papers). Mihai Păunescu collaborates with scholars based in Romania and Germany. Mihai Păunescu's co-authors include Martin Schneider and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Scientometrics and Socio-Economic Review.

In The Last Decade

Mihai Păunescu

9 papers receiving 665 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Mapping the institutional capital of high-tech firms: A fuzzy-set analysis of capitalist variety and export performance
    2009 505 citations Martin Schneider, Mihai Păunescu et al. Journal of International Business Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mihai Păunescu Romania 6 343 305 160 119 95 10 697
Heinz Tüselmann United Kingdom 15 139 0.4× 467 1.5× 178 1.1× 164 1.4× 101 1.1× 45 833
Leslie T. Szamosi United Kingdom 15 105 0.3× 204 0.7× 111 0.7× 85 0.7× 50 0.5× 38 599
Sinéad Monaghan Ireland 12 98 0.3× 495 1.6× 171 1.1× 179 1.5× 20 0.2× 18 745
Sara L. McGaughey Australia 16 94 0.3× 467 1.5× 106 0.7× 132 1.1× 28 0.3× 29 748
Luc Bernier Canada 10 106 0.3× 192 0.6× 83 0.5× 71 0.6× 147 1.5× 41 562
Mohammad Amin United States 16 222 0.6× 92 0.3× 459 2.9× 83 0.7× 47 0.5× 129 874
Filippo Belloc Italy 12 69 0.2× 229 0.8× 303 1.9× 48 0.4× 97 1.0× 51 743
Jayoti Das United States 11 322 0.9× 130 0.4× 176 1.1× 19 0.2× 73 0.8× 36 573
Andrew Atherton United Kingdom 16 110 0.3× 158 0.5× 125 0.8× 345 2.9× 48 0.5× 41 676
Tain-Jy Chen Taiwan 15 130 0.4× 499 1.6× 286 1.8× 58 0.5× 48 0.5× 35 779

Countries citing papers authored by Mihai Păunescu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mihai Păunescu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mihai Păunescu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mihai Păunescu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mihai Păunescu 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 Mihai Păunescu. Mihai Păunescu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Păunescu, Mihai, et al.. (2023). The necessity of resilience: Bucharest vulnerability in seismic context. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 1185(1). 12032–12032. 1 indexed citations
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Păunescu, Mihai, et al.. (2021). The lack of meaningful boundary differences between journal impact factor quartiles undermines their independent use in research evaluation. Scientometrics. 126(2). 1495–1525. 16 indexed citations
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Păunescu, Mihai, et al.. (2021). The citation impact of articles from which authors gained monetary rewards based on journal metrics. Scientometrics. 126(6). 4941–4974. 8 indexed citations
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Păunescu, Mihai, et al.. (2017). An extension of the Characteristics Scales and Scores: isolating 'inter-institutional' from 'intra-institutional' variance in highly skewed real population distributions.. ISSI. 1178–1189.
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Păunescu, Mihai, et al.. (2016). Research-driven classification and ranking in higher education: an empirical appraisal of a Romanian policy experience. Scientometrics. 107(2). 785–805. 7 indexed citations
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Păunescu, Mihai, et al.. (2015). Research-driven Classification and Ranking in Higher Education: An Empirical Appraisal of a Romanian Policy Experience.. ISSI. 1 indexed citations
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Păunescu, Mihai, et al.. (2015). Ranking Romanian academic departments in three fields of study using theg-index. Quality in Higher Education. 21(2). 189–212. 7 indexed citations
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Păunescu, Mihai. (2013). Students' Attitudes towards Technology-Enabled Learning: A Change in Learning Patterns? The Case of a Master's Course in Political Science.. European Journal of Open Distance and E-Learning. 16(1). 27–35. 1 indexed citations
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Schneider, Martin & Mihai Păunescu. (2012). Changing varieties of capitalism and revealed comparative advantages from 1990 to 2005: a test of the Hall and Soskice claims. Socio-Economic Review. 10(4). 731–753. 151 indexed citations
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Schneider, Martin, et al.. (2009). Mapping the institutional capital of high-tech firms: A fuzzy-set analysis of capitalist variety and export performance. Journal of International Business Studies. 41(2). 246–266. 505 indexed citations breakdown →

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