Dr. Dr. habil. Lutz Bornmann works as a sociologist of science in the administrative headquarters of the Max Planck Society in Munich (Germany). Since the late 1990s, he has been working on issues in the promotion of young academics and scientists in the sciences and on quality assurance in higher education. His current research interests include research evaluation, peer review and bibliometric indicators, especially the h index. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Informetrics (Elsevier) and Scientometrics (Springer, starting in January 2012). Furthermore he is senior associate editor at the International Journal of Biomedical Science Editing (Kowsar) and advisory editorial board member of EMBO Reports (Nature Publishing group). Since 2004, he has published more than 80 papers in journals covered by Thomson Reuters with a total of more than 900 citations. His h index amounts to 16 (the publication list and citation metrics are available on http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3926-2008). Essential Science Indicators (ESI, Thomson Reuters) lists him in the top 1% of all scientists based on total citations over the last ten years. ESI lists six of his papers as highly cited papers (belonging to the top 1% of papers in the social sciences).
Web pages Web application to calculate the single publication h index (and further metrics) based on Google Scholar Which cities produce worldwide more excellent papers than can be expected? The detection of "hot regions" in the geography of science Mapping excellence in the geography of the sciences
Most recent publications (list of all publications): Bornmann, L. & Marx, W. (in press). The effect of several versions of one and the same manuscript published by a journal on its Journal Impact Factor. Scientometrics Bornmann, L. & Marx, W. (in press). The Anna Karenina principle: A way of thinking about success in science. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology Leydesdorff, L. & Bornmann, L. (in press). Testing differences statistically with the Leiden ranking. Scientometrics Leydesdorff, L. & Bornmann, L. (in press). Percentile ranks and the Integrated Impact Indicator (I3). Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology Bornmann, L. & Vanclay, J. (in press). Metrics to evaluate research performance in academic institutions: A critique of ERA 2010 as applied in forestry and the indirect H2 index as a possible alternative. Scientometrics Bornmann, L. & Egghe, L. (in press). Journal peer review as an information retrieval process. Journal of Documentation Bornmann, L., Wolf, M., & Daniel, H.-D. (in press). Closed versus open reviewing of journal manuscripts: how far do comments differ in language use? Scientometrics Bornmann, L., de Moya Anegón, F., & Leydesdorff, L. (in press). The new Excellence Indicator in the World Report of the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2011. Journal of Informetrics Bornmann, L., Marx, W., Gasparyan, A. Y., & Kitas, G. D. (in press). Diversity, value and limitations of the Journal Impact Factor and alternative metrics. Rheumatology International (Clinical and Experimental Investigations) Bornmann, L. & Marx, W. (in press). Histcite analysis of papers constituting the h index research front. Journal of Informetrics Bornmann, L. & Leydesdorff, L. (in press). Which are the best performing regions in information science in terms of highly-cited papers? Some improvements of our previous mapping approaches. Journal of Informetrics Bornmann, L. (in press). The Hawthorne effect in journal peer review. Scientometrics
Reviewer for Journals American Sociological Review, Annals of Occupational Hygiene, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Archives of General Psychiatry, Asia Pacific Education Review, Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung, BMC Medicine, BMC Medical Research Methodology, British Journal of Psychiatry, Communications of the ACM, Conservation Biology, Croatian Medical Journal, Desalination and Water Treatment, EMBO Reports, Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, European Journal of Neurology, European Science Editing, Europhysics Letters, Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Journal of Economic Methodology, Journal of Informetrics, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Minerva, Multivariate Behavioral Research, New Journal of Physics, PLoS ONE, Psychological Methods, Psychologische Rundschau, Research Evaluation, Research Policy, Science and Engineering Ethics, Scientometrics, ZOOLOGIA Funding agencies Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Georgia National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation Conference Member of the programme committee for the ISSI 2011 conference in Durban, South Africa
Postal address Max Planck Society Administrative Headquarters Hofgartenstr. 8 80539 Munich Voice +49-89-2108-1265 +49-170-9183667 (mobile) E-mail bornmann@gv.mpg.de lutzbornmann@gmail.com (priv.)
Member of INCHER Kassel - International Center for Higher Education Research Kassel