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Commemorating Judit Bar-Ilan from bibliometric and altmetric perspectives

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This article commemorates the late Judit Bar-Ilan by illuminating her academic career from bibliometric and altmetric perspectives. We analyze Judit’s publication output demonstrating her standing in the international scientometric community. Her co-authorship network spans 99 researchers from 27 countries. An analysis of title terms highlights how her research interest developed over the course of her 30-year career. As Judit was one of the “founding mothers” of the still young field of altmetrics, we also investigate how her publications were shared on social media. We group Twitter users into eleven user categories and analyze how those sharing the same publication are following each other. An analysis of the geolocations of Twitter users demonstrates that Judit’s work was discussed worldwide, in particular in Europe and North America. The bibliometric and altmetric analyses confirm that Judit was an outstanding researcher, a supportive mentor and a great colleague. She will be missed.

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  1. See CV on her website: https://is.biu.ac.il/en/judit.

  2. https://www.altmetrics.org.

  3. https://www.journalofaltmetrics.org.

  4. The ARFIS Research Group consisted of Tania Todorova, Pan Yantao, Jiuzhen Zhang, Daniela Živkovic, Darija Pešut, Terttu Kortelainen, Judit Bar-Ilan, Noa Aharony, Elena Collina, Liga Krumina, Hanady Geagea, Silvia Ghinculov, Ane Landøy, Almuth Gastinger, Aurora de la Vega, Ana Lúcia Terra, Nicole Johnston, Angela Repanovici, Polona Vilar, René Schneider, Güleda Dogan, Serap Kurbanoglu, Patricia Jamal, David Bawden, Jane Secker, Chris Morrison, A.M. Salaz, Diane Mizrachi, and Joumana Boustany.

  5. Bar-Ilan, J. (2008). Which h-index?—A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar. Scientometrics, 74(2), 257-271. URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-008-0216-y. See also: https://plu.mx/mtsinai/u/jbarilan.

  6. https://twitter.com/juditbi.

  7. https://is.biu.ac.il/en/judit.

  8. http://issi-society.org/awards/derek-de-solla-price-memorial-medal/.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Gali Halevi, Bluma C. Peritz as well as Daniel Bar-Ilan for providing information on Judit’s academic career and publications. We are immensely grateful that we were able to work with Judit on so many different occasions. We will never forget her strong support and seemingly endless energy in pursuing research on metrics. We hope that we can follow in her footsteps and strive to be similarly supportive and inspiring mentors and engaged members of the scientometric community.

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  1. School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    Stefanie Haustein

  2. Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Science et la Technologie (CIRST), Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada

    Stefanie Haustein

  3. Scholarly Communications Lab, Ottawa, Canada

    Stefanie Haustein

  4. ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics, Kiel, Germany

    Isabella Peters

  5. Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

    Isabella Peters

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This paper is dedicated to the memory of Judit Bar-Ilan (1958–2019), an outstanding scholar and an inimitable friend and colleague.

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Haustein, S., Peters, I. Commemorating Judit Bar-Ilan from bibliometric and altmetric perspectives. Scientometrics 123, 1211–1224 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03448-y

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