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, Emanuel Kulczycki, Alesia Zuccala, Erjia Yan, Michal Petr 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

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

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Text-based Classification of All Social Sciences and Humanities Publications Indexed in the Flemish VABB Database 2025 ·(unknown), Raf Guns, Tim Engels	0
2	Journal article classification using abstracts: a comparison of classical and transformer-based machine learning methods 2024 ·Scientometrics ·(unknown), Raf Guns, Walter Daelemans, Tim Engels	1
3	Beyond borders: Examining the role of national learned societies in the social sciences and humanities 2024 ·Learned Publishing ·(unknown), Raf Guns, Janne Pölönen, (unknown), Mimi Urbanc, Michael Ochsner	2
4	Disciplinary collaboration rates in the social sciences and humanities: what is the influence of classification type? 2023 ·Scientometrics ·(unknown), Raf Guns	2
5	Cognitive and interdisciplinary mobility in the social sciences and humanities: Traces of increased boundary crossing 2023 ·Journal of Information Science ·(unknown), Raf Guns, Tim Engels, Frédéric Vandermoere	2
6	Journal metrics as predictors of Research Excellence Framework 2021 results: Comparison of impact factor quartiles and Finnish expert-ratings 2023 ·Janne Pölönen, Raf Guns, Tim Engels	1
7	Uses of the Journal Impact Factor in national journal rankings in China and Europe 2022 ·Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology ·Emanuel Kulczycki, Ying Huang, Alesia Zuccala, Tim Engels, (unknown), Raf Guns, Janne Pölönen, Gunnar Sivertsen, Zehra Taşkın, Lin Zhang	13
8	Tracing the context in disciplinary classifications: A bibliometric pairwise comparison of five classifications of journals in the social sciences and humanities 2021 ·Quantitative Science Studies ·(unknown), Raf Guns, Frédéric Vandermoere, Gunnar Sivertsen, Tim Engels	6
9	Towards complexity-sensitive book metrics for scholarly monographs in national databases for research output 2021 ·Journal of Documentation ·(unknown), Raf Guns, Alesia Zuccala, Tim Engels	2
10	Which aspects of the Open Science agenda are most relevant to scientometric research and publishing? An opinion paper 2021 ·Quantitative Science Studies ·Lutz Bornmann, Raf Guns, Mike Thelwall, Dietmar Wolfram	6
11	National Lists of Scholarly Publication Channels: An Overview and Recommendations for Their Construction and Maintenance 2020 ·Journal of Data and Information Science ·Janne Pölönen, Raf Guns, Emanuel Kulczycki, Gunnar Sivertsen, Tim Engels	35
12	Article-level matching of Web of Science to a local database in a comparative context 2020 ·Figshare ·(unknown), Raf Guns	1
13	Open access challenge at national level: comprehensive analysis of publication channels used by Finnish researchers in 2016-2017 2019 ·Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja ·Janne Pölönen, Raf Guns, Emanuel Kulczycki, Mikael Laakso, Gunnar Sivertsen	2
14	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). 2019 ·ISSI ·(unknown), Raf Guns, Frédéric Vandermoere, Tim Engels	2
15	Article Level Classification of Publications in Sociology: An Experimental Assessment of Supervised Machine Learning Approaches. 2019 ·ISSI ·(unknown), Raf Guns, Tim Engels	6
16	How to identify peer-reviewed publications: Open-identity labels in scholarly book publishing 2019 ·PLoS ONE ·Emanuel Kulczycki, (unknown), Tim Engels, Raf Guns, (unknown), Janne Pölönen	12
17	The Flemish Performance-based Research Funding System: A Unique Variant of the Norwegian Model 2018 ·Journal of Data and Information Science ·Tim Engels, Raf Guns	34
18	Concentration of academic book publishers 2018 ·Leiden Repository (Leiden University) ·Raf Guns	7
19	Cognitive and Organizational Classification of Publications in the Social Sciences and Humanities. 2017 ·ISSI ·Raf Guns, Tim Engels, Frederik T. Verleysen	2
20	The h-index of a conglomerate 2008 ·DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) ·Ronald Rousseau, Raf Guns, Yuxian Liu	6

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