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Dr. Dr. habil. Lutz Bornmann works as a sociologist of science at the Division for Science and
Innovation Studies 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. He is a
member of the editorial board of the Journal of Informetrics
(Elsevier), of PLOS ONE, and of Scientometrics (Springer). 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
about 110 papers in journals covered by Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science with
a total of about 1500 citations. His h index amounts to 22 (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. |
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Web pages Web
application which visualizes research excellence worldwide in 17 subject
areas 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 |
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Most recent publications (list of all publications): Bornmann, L. (in press). On
the function of university rankings. Journal of the American Society of Information
Science and Technology Bornmann, L. (in press). The
problem of citation impact assessments for recent publication years in
institutional evaluations. Journal of Informetrics de Moya-Anegón,
F., Guerrero-Bote, V. P., Bornmann, L., & Moed, H. F. (in press). The research guarantors of scientific papers and the
output counting: a promising new approach. Scientometrics Bornmann, L. & Marx, W. (in press). Comments
to the response of Rodríguez-Navarro. EMBO Reports Bornmann, L. & Marx, W. (in press). Distributions
instead of single numbers: percentiles and beam plots for the assessment of
single researchers. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology Bornmann, L. & Marx, W. (in press). How
should the societal impact of research be generated and measured? A proposal
for a simple and practicable approach to allow interdisciplinary comparisons.
Scientometrics Marx, W. & Bornmann, L.
(im Druck). Wie gut ist Forschung wirklich? Biospektrum Bornmann, L.,
Stefaner, M., de Moya Anegón, F., & Mutz, R.
(in press). Ranking
and mapping of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide based
on highly-cited papers: A visualization of results from multi-level models.
Online Information Review Bornmann, L. & Williams, R. (in press). How
to calculate the practical significance of citation impact differences? An
empirical example from evaluative institutional bibliometrics using adjusted
predictions and marginal effects. Journal of Informetrics Bornmann, L. (in press). Assigning publications to multiple subject categories for
bibliometric analysis: an empirical case study based on percentiles.
Journal of Documentation Bornmann, L. de Moya Anegón, F., & Mutz, R. (in
press). Do universities or research institutions with a
specific subject profile have an advantage or a disadvantage in institutional
rankings? A latent class analysis with data from the SCImago
ranking. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology Leydesdorff, L., Radicchi, F., Bornmann, L., Castellano, C., & de Nooy, W. (in press). Field-normalized
impact factors: a comparison of rescaling versus fractionally counted IFs.
Journal of the American
Society of Information Science and Technology Bornmann, L., Mutz, R.,
& Daniel, H.-D. (in press). A multilevel-statistical reformulation of
citation-based university rankings: the Leiden Ranking 2011/2012. Journal of the American
Society of Information Science and Technology Egghe, L. & Bornmann, L. (in press). Fallout
and miss in journal peer review. Journal of Documentation |
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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
Clinical Epidemiology, Journal of Informetrics,
Journal of Medical Internet Research,
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
Journal of the Royal Society of
Medicine, Library & Information
Science Research, Minerva, Multivariate Behavioral Research,
New Journal of Physics, PLoS ONE,
Psychological Methods, Psychologische
Rundschau, Research Evaluation, Research
Policy, Roars Transactions, a
Journal on Research Policy and Evaluation (RT), Science and Engineering Ethics, Scientometrics, Zeitschrift für Evaluation,
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 |
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Postal address Division
for Science and Innovation Studies Administrative
Headquarters of the Max Planck Society Hofgartenstr. 8 D-80539 Munich Voice +49-89-2108-1265 +49-170-9183667 (mobile) E-mail bornmann@gv.mpg.de lutzbornmann@gmail.com (priv.) |
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Member of INCHER
Kassel - International Center for Higher Education Research Kassel |
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