Raf Guns

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Raf Guns is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Raf Guns has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 21 papers in Information Systems and 17 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Raf Guns's work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (49 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (15 papers) and Research Data Management Practices (9 papers). Raf Guns is often cited by papers focused on scientometrics and bibliometrics research (49 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (15 papers) and Research Data Management Practices (9 papers). Raf Guns collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Poland and Norway. Raf Guns's co-authors include Ronald Rousseau, Tim Engels, Leo Egghe, Gunnar Sivertsen, Janne Pölönen, Alesia Zuccala, Emanuel Kulczycki, Michal Petr, Erjia Yan and Yuxian Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientometrics.

In The Last Decade

Raf Guns

78 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Publication patterns in the social sciences and humanities: evidence from eight European countries

2018 137 citations Emanuel Kulczycki, Tim Engels et al. Scientometrics profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Raf Guns	669	287	159	140	139	82	1.2k
Michel Zitt	798 1.2×	359 1.3×	193 1.2×	105 0.8×	122 0.9×	33	1.3k
Andrea Scharnhorst	358 0.5×	294 1.0×	261 1.6×	122 0.9×	268 1.9×	89	1.4k
Ying Ding	469 0.7×	220 0.8×	191 1.2×	141 1.0×	223 1.6×	43	1.1k
Elise Bassecoulard	441 0.7×	219 0.8×	139 0.9×	53 0.4×	79 0.6×	16	854
Wolfgang Glänzel	426 0.6×	176 0.6×	137 0.9×	43 0.3×	146 1.1×	14	843
Alesia Zuccala	544 0.8×	344 1.2×	90 0.6×	107 0.8×	74 0.5×	43	993
Hildrun Kretschmer	554 0.8×	322 1.1×	406 2.6×	53 0.4×	65 0.5×	64	1.2k
Quentin L. Burrell	634 0.9×	258 0.9×	169 1.1×	74 0.5×	237 1.7×	67	1.4k
Juan Gorraiz	758 1.1×	534 1.9×	50 0.3×	243 1.7×	82 0.6×	81	1.3k
Péter Jacsó	979 1.5×	740 2.6×	56 0.4×	214 1.5×	156 1.1×	90	1.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raf Guns

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All Works

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Guns, Raf, et al.. (2025). Text-based Classification of All Social Sciences and Humanities Publications Indexed in the Flemish VABB Database.

Guns, Raf, et al.. (2024). Journal article classification using abstracts: a comparison of classical and transformer-based machine learning methods. Scientometrics. 130(1). 313–342. 1 indexed citations

Guns, Raf, et al.. (2024). Beyond borders: Examining the role of national learned societies in the social sciences and humanities. Learned Publishing. 37(3). 2 indexed citations

Guns, Raf, et al.. (2023). Disciplinary collaboration rates in the social sciences and humanities: what is the influence of classification type?. Scientometrics. 128(6). 3419–3436. 2 indexed citations

Guns, Raf, et al.. (2023). Cognitive and interdisciplinary mobility in the social sciences and humanities: Traces of increased boundary crossing. Journal of Information Science. 51(6). 1347–1361. 2 indexed citations

Pölönen, Janne, Raf Guns, & Tim Engels. (2023). Journal metrics as predictors of Research Excellence Framework 2021 results: Comparison of impact factor quartiles and Finnish expert-ratings. 1 indexed citations

Kulczycki, Emanuel, Ying Huang, Alesia Zuccala, et al.. (2022). Uses of the Journal Impact Factor in national journal rankings in China and Europe. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 73(12). 1741–1754. 13 indexed citations

Guns, Raf, et al.. (2022). The Uptake and Impact of a Label for Peer-Reviewed Books. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 746452–746452.

Guns, Raf, et al.. (2021). Tracing the context in disciplinary classifications: A bibliometric pairwise comparison of five classifications of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Quantitative Science Studies. 2(1). 65–88. 6 indexed citations

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Guns, Raf, et al.. (2021). Towards complexity-sensitive book metrics for scholarly monographs in national databases for research output. Journal of Documentation. 77(5). 1173–1195. 2 indexed citations

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Bornmann, Lutz, Raf Guns, Mike Thelwall, & Dietmar Wolfram. (2021). Which aspects of the Open Science agenda are most relevant to scientometric research and publishing? An opinion paper. Quantitative Science Studies. 2(2). 438–453. 6 indexed citations

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Pölönen, Janne, Raf Guns, Emanuel Kulczycki, Gunnar Sivertsen, & Tim Engels. (2020). National Lists of Scholarly Publication Channels: An Overview and Recommendations for Their Construction and Maintenance. Journal of Data and Information Science. 6(1). 50–86. 35 indexed citations

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Pölönen, Janne, Raf Guns, Emanuel Kulczycki, Mikael Laakso, & Gunnar Sivertsen. (2019). Open access challenge at national level: comprehensive analysis of publication channels used by Finnish researchers in 2016-2017. Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja. 1776–1787. 2 indexed citations

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Guns, Raf, et al.. (2019). Article Level Classification of Publications in Sociology: An Experimental Assessment of Supervised Machine Learning Approaches.. ISSI. 738–743. 6 indexed citations

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Guns, Raf, et al.. (2019). Comparison of classification-related differences in the distribution of journal articles across academic disciplines: the case of social sciences and humanities in Flanders and Norway (2006-2015).. ISSI. 1092–1097. 2 indexed citations

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Guns, Raf, et al.. (2019). Identifying publications in questionable journals in the context of performance-based research funding. PLoS ONE. 14(11). e0224541–e0224541. 27 indexed citations

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Kulczycki, Emanuel, et al.. (2019). How to identify peer-reviewed publications: Open-identity labels in scholarly book publishing. PLoS ONE. 14(3). e0214423–e0214423. 12 indexed citations

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Engels, Tim & Raf Guns. (2018). The Flemish Performance-based Research Funding System: A Unique Variant of the Norwegian Model. Journal of Data and Information Science. 3(4). 45–60. 34 indexed citations

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Guns, Raf, Tim Engels, & Frederik T. Verleysen. (2017). Cognitive and Organizational Classification of Publications in the Social Sciences and Humanities.. ISSI. 112–117. 2 indexed citations

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Rousseau, Ronald, Raf Guns, & Yuxian Liu. (2008). The h-index of a conglomerate. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 6 indexed citations

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