Q-measures are network indicators that gauge a node's brokerage role between different groups in the network. Previous studies have focused on their definition for different network types and their practical application. Little attention has, however, been paid to their theoretical and...

Collaboration can be described using layered systems such as the article–author–institute–country structure. These structures can be considered ‘cascades’ or ‘chains’ of bipartite networks. We introduce a framework for characterizing and studying the intensity of collaboration...

The definitions of the rational and real-valued variants of the h-index and g-index are reviewed. It is shown how they can be obtained both graphically and by calculation. Formulae are derived expressing the exact relations between the h-variants and between the g-variants. Subsequently these...

A correction is provided for the proof of a theorem announced in (Rousseau et al., 2013). We show, moreover, that in a network subdivided into three or more subgroups there is at most one node with global Q-measure equal to one. In case there are two subgroups then it is possible to have two...

Duality is an important topic in informetrics, especially in connection with the classical informetric laws. Yet this concept is less studied in information retrieval. It deals with the unification or symmetry between queries and documents, search formulation versus indexing, and relevant versus...

This study examines collaboration dynamics with the goal to predict and recommend collaborations starting from the current topology. Author-, institution-, and country-level collaboration networks are constructed using a ten-year data set on library and information science publications....