Rüdiger Mutz

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Rüdiger Mutz is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Sociology and Political Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Rüdiger Mutz has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Rüdiger Mutz's work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (40 papers), Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (15 papers) and Health and Medical Research Impacts (4 papers). Rüdiger Mutz is often cited by papers focused on scientometrics and bibliometrics research (40 papers), Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (15 papers) and Health and Medical Research Impacts (4 papers). Rüdiger Mutz collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Spain. Rüdiger Mutz's co-authors include Lutz Bornmann, Hans‐Dieter Daniel, Loet Leydesdorff, Christoph Neuhaus, Sven E. Hug, Félix de Moya Anegón, Tobias Opthof, Herbert W. Marsh, Alison O’Mara-Eves and Moritz Stefaner and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Review of Educational Research and Scientometrics.

In The Last Decade

Rüdiger Mutz

58 papers receiving 2.9k 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. Growth rates of modern science: A bibliometric analysis based on the number of publications and cited references
    2015 874 citations Lutz Bornmann, Rüdiger Mutz Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology profile →
  2. Are there better indices for evaluation purposes than the h index? A comparison of nine different variants of the h index using data from biomedicine
    2008 336 citations Lutz Bornmann, Rüdiger Mutz et al. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Rüdiger Mutz 1.6k 435 279 267 265 61 3.1k
Bart Thijs 1.3k 0.8× 447 1.0× 253 0.9× 268 1.0× 109 0.4× 84 2.5k
María Bordons 1.8k 1.1× 480 1.1× 139 0.5× 397 1.5× 363 1.4× 97 3.6k
Martijn S. Visser 1.4k 0.9× 464 1.1× 151 0.5× 230 0.9× 113 0.4× 32 2.5k
Peter van den Besselaar 1.1k 0.7× 392 0.9× 215 0.8× 245 0.9× 277 1.0× 164 3.2k
Lokman I. Meho 1.0k 0.6× 743 1.7× 206 0.7× 258 1.0× 208 0.8× 46 3.4k
Emilio Delgado López‐Cózar 1.1k 0.7× 657 1.5× 169 0.6× 288 1.1× 200 0.8× 174 3.8k
Gunnar Sivertsen 1.6k 1.0× 494 1.1× 93 0.3× 319 1.2× 155 0.6× 99 2.9k
Staša Milojević 882 0.5× 382 0.9× 319 1.1× 293 1.1× 111 0.4× 52 2.2k
Éric Archambault 1.1k 0.7× 393 0.9× 100 0.4× 280 1.0× 123 0.5× 26 2.3k
Vicente P. Guerrero‐Bote 968 0.6× 497 1.1× 283 1.0× 159 0.6× 82 0.3× 80 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rüdiger Mutz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Rüdiger Mutz. 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 Rüdiger Mutz. The network helps show where Rüdiger Mutz may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rüdiger Mutz

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

All Works

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Mutz, Rüdiger, Lutz Bornmann, & Hans‐Dieter Daniel. (2025). Scientific publishing without gatekeeping: an empirical investigation of eLife’s new peer review process. Scientometrics. 130(9). 5067–5092. 1 indexed citations
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Forthmann, Boris, Philipp Doebler, & Rüdiger Mutz. (2024). Why summing up bibliometric indicators does not justify a composite indicator. Scientometrics. 129(12). 7475–7499. 2 indexed citations
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Forthmann, Boris, et al.. (2024). Reliable individual differences in researcher performance capacity estimates: evaluating productivity as explanatory variable. Scientometrics. 130(1). 43–66. 1 indexed citations
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Bornmann, Lutz, Robin Haunschild, & Rüdiger Mutz. (2018). MHq indicators for zero-inflated count data – A response to Smolinsky and Marx (2018). Journal of Informetrics. 12(3). 1012–1014. 3 indexed citations
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Mutz, Rüdiger. (2016). Some further aspects of sampling: Comment on Williams and Bornmann. Journal of Informetrics. 10(4). 1241–1242. 2 indexed citations
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Bornmann, Lutz, Moritz Stefaner, Félix de Moya Anegón, & Rüdiger Mutz. (2015). Ranking and mappping of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide: The third release of excellencemapping.net. Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management. 9(1). 65–72. 6 indexed citations
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Bornmann, Lutz & Rüdiger Mutz. (2015). How well does a university perform in comparison with its peers? The use of odds, and odds ratios, for the comparison of institutional citation impact using the Leiden Rankings. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 66(12). 2711–2713. 3 indexed citations
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Bornmann, Lutz, Moritz Stefaner, Félix de Moya Anegón, & Rüdiger Mutz. (2014). The scientific excellence mapping tool. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 40(1). 28–28. 1 indexed citations
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Mutz, Rüdiger & Hans‐Dieter Daniel. (2012). The generalized propensity score methodology for estimating unbiased journal impact factors. Scientometrics. 92(2). 377–390. 13 indexed citations
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Mutz, Rüdiger & Hans‐Dieter Daniel. (2012). University and student segmentation: Multilevel latent‐class analysis of students’ attitudes towards research methods and statistics. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 83(2). 280–304. 29 indexed citations
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Mutz, Rüdiger, Lutz Bornmann, & Hans‐Dieter Daniel. (2012). Heterogeneity of Inter-Rater Reliabilities of Grant Peer Reviews and Its Determinants: A General Estimating Equations Approach. PLoS ONE. 7(10). e48509–e48509. 54 indexed citations
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Bornmann, Lutz, Rüdiger Mutz, & Hans‐Dieter Daniel. (2010). A Reliability-Generalization Study of Journal Peer Reviews: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis of Inter-Rater Reliability and Its Determinants. PLoS ONE. 5(12). e14331–e14331. 141 indexed citations
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Bornmann, Lutz, Rüdiger Mutz, & Hans‐Dieter Daniel. (2009). Do we need the h index and its variants in addition to standard bibliometric measures?. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 60(6). 1286–1289. 26 indexed citations
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Bornmann, Lutz, Rüdiger Mutz, & Hans‐Dieter Daniel. (2008). Latent Markov modeling applied to grant peer review. Journal of Informetrics. 2(3). 217–228. 13 indexed citations
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Mutz, Rüdiger & Hans‐Dieter Daniel. (2007). Entwicklung eines Hochschul-Rankingverfahrens mittels Mixed-Rasch-Modell und Mehrebenenanalyse am Beispiel der Psychologie. Diagnostica. 53(1). 3–16. 10 indexed citations
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Sauter, Udo Hans, et al.. (1999). Determining Juvenile-Mature Wood Transition in Scots Pine Using Latewood Density. Wood and Fiber Science. 31(4). 416–425. 40 indexed citations

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