Rodrigo Costas

8.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
135 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Rodrigo Costas is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Information Systems and Information Systems and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Rodrigo Costas has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 32 papers in Information Systems and 22 papers in Information Systems and Management. Recurrent topics in Rodrigo Costas's work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (82 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (19 papers) and Web visibility and informetrics (16 papers). Rodrigo Costas is often cited by papers focused on scientometrics and bibliometrics research (82 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (19 papers) and Web visibility and informetrics (16 papers). Rodrigo Costas collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, South Africa and Spain. Rodrigo Costas's co-authors include María Bordons, Paul Wouters, Zohreh Zahedi, Thed N. van Leeuwen, Vincent Larivière, Daniele Fanelli, Nicolás Robinson‐García, Stefanie Haustein, John P. A. Ioannidis and Enrique Orduña‐Malea 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

Rodrigo Costas

127 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Do “altmetrics” correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective

2014 505 citations Rodrigo Costas et al. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology profile →
How well developed are altmetrics? A cross-disciplinary analysis of the presence of ‘alternative metrics’ in scientific publications

2014 279 citations Rodrigo Costas et al. profile →
Characterizing Social Media Metrics of Scholarly Papers: The Effect of Document Properties and Collaboration Patterns

2015 245 citations Stefanie Haustein, Rodrigo Costas et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Link-based approach to study scientific software usage: the case of VOSviewer

2021 127 citations Rodrigo Costas et al. profile →

Peers

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Paul Wouters Netherlands

Stefanie Haustein Canada

Cassidy R. Sugimoto United States

Félix de Moya Anegón Spain

Judit Bar‐Ilan Israel

Kayvan Kousha United Kingdom

Blaise Cronin United States

Thed N. van Leeuwen Netherlands

Diana Hicks United States

Hans‐Dieter Daniel Switzerland

Paul Wouters Netherlands

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3.0k ×1.1

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1.3k ×1.2

721 ×0.9

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887 ×1.3

ISM

332 ×0.8

SNP

Citations per year, relative to Rodrigo Costas Rodrigo Costas (= 1×) peers Paul Wouters

Countries citing papers authored by Rodrigo Costas

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rodrigo Costas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Rodrigo Costas. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Rodrigo Costas. The network helps show where Rodrigo Costas may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rodrigo Costas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rodrigo Costas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rodrigo Costas 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 Rodrigo Costas. Rodrigo Costas 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

Robinson‐García, Nicolás, et al.. (2025). The use of informetric methods to study diversity in the scientific workforce: A literature review. Quantitative Science Studies. 6. 652–685. 1 indexed citations

Costas, Rodrigo, et al.. (2024). Geographical inequalities in global forest science: A bibliometric perspective. Forest Policy and Economics. 165. 103250–103250. 3 indexed citations

Bowman, Timothy D., et al.. (2024). Do you cite what you tweet? Investigating the relationship between tweeting and citing research articles. Quantitative Science Studies. 5(2). 332–350.

Díaz‐Faes, Adrián A., et al.. (2023). From academic to media capital: To what extent does the scientific reputation of universities translate into Wikipedia attention?. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 75(4). 423–437. 2 indexed citations

Mongeon, Philippe, Timothy D. Bowman, & Rodrigo Costas. (2023). An open data set of scholars on Twitter. Quantitative Science Studies. 4(2). 314–324. 15 indexed citations

Noyons, Ed, et al.. (2023). Exploratory analysis of policy document sources in Altmetric.com and Overton. 3 indexed citations

Torres‐Salinas, Daniel, et al.. (2022). Wikinformetrics: Construction and description of an open Wikipedia knowledge graph data set for informetric purposes. Quantitative Science Studies. 3(4). 931–952. 6 indexed citations

Colavizza, Giovanni, Rodrigo Costas, Vincent Traag, et al.. (2021). A scientometric overview of CORD-19. PLoS ONE. 16(1). e0244839–e0244839. 51 indexed citations

Costas, Rodrigo, et al.. (2020). Large-scale identification and characterization of scholars on Twitter. Quantitative Science Studies. 1(2). 771–791. 22 indexed citations

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Robinson‐García, Nicolás, et al.. (2019). Towards a multidimensional valuation model of scientists.. ISSI. 2565–2566. 1 indexed citations

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Martín‐Martín, Alberto, Rodrigo Costas, Thed N. van Leeuwen, & Emilio Delgado López‐Cózar. (2018). Unbundling Open Access dimensions: a conceptual discussion to reduce terminology inconsistencies. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 5 indexed citations

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Costas, Rodrigo, et al.. (2018). Exploring the relationship between research funding and social media: disciplinary analysis of the distribution of funding acknowledgements and Twitter mention in scientific publications. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 1168–1181. 3 indexed citations

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Mongeon, Philippe, et al.. (2018). Tweeting Library and Information Science: a socio-topical distance analysis. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 1502–1508. 2 indexed citations

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Martín‐Martín, Alberto, Rodrigo Costas, Thed N. van Leeuwen, & Emilio Delgado López‐Cózar. (2018). Evidence of open access of scientific publications in Google Scholar: A large-scale analysis. Journal of Informetrics. 12(3). 819–841. 96 indexed citations

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Bordons, María, et al.. (2018). Studying the research funding structure of countries through the analysis of funding acknowledgments. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 1141–1153. 2 indexed citations

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Chinchilla‐Rodríguez, Zaida, et al.. (2017). Revealing existing and potential partnerships: affinities and asymmetries in international collaboration and mobility.. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 869–880. 2 indexed citations

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Costas, Rodrigo, Thed N. van Leeuwen, & María Bordons. (2016). A bibliometric classificatory approach for the study and assessment of research performance at the individual level: the effects of age on productivity and impact. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 68 indexed citations

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Haustein, Stefanie, Timothy D. Bowman, & Rodrigo Costas. (2015). When is an article actually published? An analysis of online availability, publication, and indexation dates. ISSI. 13 indexed citations

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Costas, Rodrigo. (2015). How many is too many? On the relationship between output and impact in research. ISSI. 4 indexed citations

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Costas, Rodrigo. (2015). Is the year of first publication a good proxy of scholars’ academic age?. ISSI. 7 indexed citations

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