Selected Publications:

Braam, R.R., H.F. Moed, and A.F.J. van Raan (1991)
Mapping of Science by combined co-citation and word analysis,

I: Structural aspects
Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) 42, 233-251.
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II: Dynamical aspects
Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) 42, 252-266.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. (1997),
Scientometrics: State-of-the-Art.
Scientometrics 38(1), 205-218
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Rinia, E.J., Th.N. Van Leeuwen, H.G. van Vuren, and A.F.J. Van Raan (1998),
Comparative analysis of a set of bibliometric indicators and central peer review criteria. Evaluation of condensed matter physics in the Netherlands.
Research Policy 27(1), 95-107.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. (2000),
On growth, ageing, and fractal differentiation of science,
Scientometrics 47(2), 347-362.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. (2000), The interdisciplinary nature of science: theoretical framework and bibliometric-empirical approach.
In: P.Weingart and N.Stehr (eds.). Practising Interdisciplinarity.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, p.66-78.
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Rinia, E.J., Th.N. van Leeuwen, H.G. van Vuren, and A.F.J. van Raan (2001),
Influence of interdisciplinarity on peer-review and bibliometric evaluations in physics research.
Research Policy 30, 357-361.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. (2001),
Two-step competition process leads to quasi power-law income distributions. Application to scientific publications and citation distributions.
Physica A 298, 530-536.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. (2001),
Competition amongst scientists for publication status: toward a model of scientific publication and citation distributions.
Scientometrics 51(1), 347-357.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. (2001),
Bibliometrics and internet: some observations and expectations.
Scientometrics 50(1), 59-63.
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Rinia, E.J., Th.N. van Leeuwen, E.E.W. Bruins, H.G. van Vuren and A.F.J. van Raan (2001),
Citation delay in interdisciplinary knowledge exchange.
Scientometrics 51(1), 293-309.
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Van Leeuwen, Th.N., H.F. Moed, R.J.W. Tijssen, M.S. Visser, and A.F.J. van Raan (2001),
Language biases in the coverage of the Science Citation Index and its consequences for international comparisons of national research performance.
Scientometrics 51(1), 335-346.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. and Th. N. van Leeuwen (2001).
Identifying the fields for mapping RTD excellence in life sciences - a first approach,
Report to the European Commission under contract COPO-CT-2001-00001.
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Rinia, E.J., Th. N. van Leeuwen, and A.F.J. van Raan (2002),
Impact measures of interdisciplinary research in physics.
Scientometrics 53, 241-248.
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Rinia, E.J., Th.N. van Leeuwen , E.E.W. Bruins , H.G. van Vuren , A.F.J. van Raan,
Measuring knowledge transfer between fields of science.
Scientometrics 54, 347-362.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. and Th.N. van Leeuwen (2002),
Assessment of the scientific basis of interdisciplinary, applied research. Application of bibliometric methods in nutrition and food research.
Research Policy 31, 611-632.
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Noyons, E.C.M. and A.F.J. van Raan (2002).
Science mapping from publications. An example in mathematics & computer science.
In: J. Meij (ed.): Dealing with the data flood. Mining data, text and multimedia.
The Hague: STT/Beweton, p.64-72 (ISBN 90-804496-6-0).
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Van Raan, A.F.J and E.C.M. Noyons (2002). Discovery of patterns of scientific and technological development and knowledge tramsfer.
In: W. Adamczak and A. Nase (eds.): Gaining Insight from Research Information. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS 2002), University of Kassel, August 29-31, 2002.
Kassel: University Press. Page 105- 112. (ISBN 3-933146-844).
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R.J.W. Tijssen, Th. N. van Leeuwen, and A.F.J. van Raan,
Mapping the scientific performance of German medical research. An international comparative bibliometric study.
Stuttgart: Schattauer, 2002, 120 pp., ISBN 3-7945-2161-7.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. (2003),
The use of bibliometric analysis in research performance assessment and monitoring of interdisciplinary scientific developments.
Technikfolgenabschätzung, Theorie und Praxis 12(1), 20-29.
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Van Leeuwen, Th.N., M.S. Visser, H.F. Moed, A.J. Nederhof, and A.F.J. van Raan (2003). The Holy Grail of science policy: exploring and combining bibliometric tools in search of scientific excellence.
Scientometrics 57(2), 257-280.
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Van Raan, M.S. Visser, Th.N. van Leeuwen, and E. van Wijk (2003),
Bibliometric analysis of Psychotherapy Research: Performance assessment and position in the journal landscape.
Psychotherapy Research 13(4), 511-528.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. (2004).
Sleeping Beauties in Science.
Scientometrics 59 (3), 461-466.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. (2004).
Measuring Science. Capita Selecta of Current Main Issues.
In: H.F. Moed, W, Glänzel and U.Schmoch, editors: Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research,
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, p.19-50
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van Raan, A.F.J. (2005),
Measurement of central aspects of scientific research: performance, interdisciplinarity, structure.
Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 3(1), 1-19.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. (2005),
For your citations only? Hot topics in bibliometric analysis.
Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 3(1), 50-62.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. (2005),
Fatal Attraction: Conceptual and methodological problems in the ranking of universities by bibliometric methods.
Scientometrics, 62(1), 133-143.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. (2005).
Reference-based publication networks with episodic memories.
Scientometrics 63(3), 549-566.
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Van Raan, A.F.J. (2005),
Statistical Properties of Bibliometric Indicators: Research Group Indicator Distributions and Correlations,
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), to be published
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Van Raan, A.F.J. (2005),
Performance-related differences of bibliometric statistical properties of research groups: cumulative advantages and hierarchically layered networks, preprint available in:
ArXiv Physics/0504050