Nees Jan van Eck - Publications

List of publications by Nees Jan van Eck

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Submitted Papers

L. Waltman, N.J. van Eck, R. Dekker, and U. Kaymak. An evolutionary model of price competition among spatially distributed firms. The software is available here.

Journal Papers

L. Waltman and N.J. van Eck. A mathematical analysis of the long-run behavior of genetic algorithms for social modeling. Soft Computing, in press. The software is available here.
L. Waltman and N.J. van Eck. The inconsistency of the h-index. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, in press. arXiv:1108.3901.
L. Waltman, N.J. van Eck, and A.F.J. van Raan. Universality of citation distributions revisited. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(1):72-77, 2012. arXiv:1105.2934.
L. Waltman, N.J. van Eck, R. Dekker, and U. Kaymak. Economic modeling using evolutionary algorithms: The effect of a binary encoding of strategies. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 21(5):737-756, 2011. The software is available here.
L. Waltman, R.J.W. Tijssen, and N.J. van Eck. Globalisation of science in kilometres. Journal of Informetrics, 5(4):574-582, 2011. arXiv:1103.3648.
L. Waltman, E. Yan, and N.J. van Eck. A recursive field-normalized bibliometric performance indicator: An application to the field of library and information science. Scientometrics, 89(1):301-314, 2011. arXiv:1105.3212.
L. Waltman, N.J. van Eck, T.N. van Leeuwen, M.S. Visser, and A.F.J. van Raan. On the correlation between bibliometric indicators and peer review: Reply to Opthof and Leydesdorff. Scientometrics, 88(3):1017-1022, 2011. arXiv:1105.5316. The data is available here.
R. Heersmink, J. van den Hoven, N.J. van Eck, and J. van den Berg. Bibliometric mapping of computer and information ethics. Ethics and Information Technology, 13(3):241-249, 2011.
R.J.W. Tijssen, L. Waltman, and N.J. van Eck. Collaborations span 1,553 kilometres. Nature, 473(7346):154, 2011. Correspondence.
L. Waltman, N.J. van Eck, T.N. van Leeuwen, M.S. Visser, and A.F.J. van Raan. Towards a new crown indicator: An empirical analysis. Scientometrics, 87(3):467-481, 2011. arXiv:1004.1632.
A. Zuccala and N.J. van Eck. Poverty research in a development policy context. Development Policy Review, 29(3):311-330, 2011.
L. Waltman, N.J. van Eck, T.N. van Leeuwen, M.S. Visser, and A.F.J. van Raan. Towards a new crown indicator: Some theoretical considerations. Journal of Informetrics, 5(1):37-47, 2011. arXiv:1003.2167.
C.J.F. Waaijer, C.A. van Bochove, and N.J. van Eck. On the map: Nature and Science editorials. Scientometrics, 86(1):99-112, 2011.
N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, R. Dekker, and J. van den Berg. A comparison of two techniques for bibliometric mapping: Multidimensional scaling and VOS. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(12):2405-2416, 2010. arXiv:1003.2551. The bibliometric maps are available here.
L. Waltman, N.J. van Eck, and E.C.M. Noyons. A unified approach to mapping and clustering of bibliometric networks. Journal of Informetrics, 4(4):629-635, 2010. arXiv:1006.1032. Some supplementary material is available here.
L. Waltman and N.J. van Eck. The relation between Eigenfactor, audience factor, and influence weight. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(7):1476-1486, 2010. arXiv:1003.2198.
N.J. van Eck and L. Waltman. Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics, 84(2):523-538, 2010. VOSviewer is available here. The journal co-citation map is available here.
A.F.J. van Raan, T.N. van Leeuwen, M.S. Visser, N.J. van Eck, and L. Waltman. Rivals for the crown: Reply to Opthof and Leydesdorff. Journal of Informetrics, 4(3):431-435, 2010. arXiv:1003.2113.
N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, E.C.M. Noyons, and R.K. Buter. Automatic term identification for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics, 82(3):581-596, 2010. The term map is available here.
C.J.F. Waaijer, C.A. van Bochove, and N.J. van Eck. Journal Editorials give indication of driving science issues. Nature, 463(7278):157, 2010. Correspondence. More information on this study can be found here.
N.J. van Eck and L. Waltman. On the proper understanding of the limiting behavior of generalizations of the h- and g-indices. Journal of Informetrics, 3(4):369-370, 2009. Letter to the editor.
L. Waltman and N.J. van Eck. Some comments on Egghe's derivation of the impact factor distribution. Journal of Informetrics, 3(4):363-366, 2009.
N.J. van Eck and L. Waltman. How to normalize co-occurrence data? An analysis of some well-known similarity measures. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(8):1635-1651, 2009.
L. Waltman and N.J. van Eck. Robust evolutionary algorithm design for socio-economic simulation: Some comments. Computational Economics, 33(1):103-105, 2009.
L. Waltman and N.J. van Eck. Some comments on the journal weighted impact factor proposed by Habibzadeh and Yadollahie. Journal of Informetrics, 2(4):369-372, 2008.
N.J. van Eck and L. Waltman. Generalizing the h- and g-indices. Journal of Informetrics, 2(4):263-271, 2008.
N.J. van Eck and L. Waltman. Appropriate similarity measures for author cocitation analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(10):1653-1661, 2008.
N.J. van Eck and M. van Wezel. Application of reinforcement learning to the game of Othello. Computers & Operations Research, 35(6):1999-2017, 2008. The Othello applet is available here.
N.J. van Eck and L. Waltman. Bibliometric mapping of the computational intelligence field. International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, 15(5):625-645, 2007. The concept (density) maps and the concept map viewer are available here.
L. Waltman and N.J. van Eck. Some comments on the question whether co-occurrence data should be normalized. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(11):1701-1703, 2007.
N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, J. van den Berg, and U. Kaymak. Visualizing the computational intelligence field. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 1(4):6-10, 2006. The concept (density) maps and the concept map viewer are available here.

Conference Papers

N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, and R.J.W. Tijssen. Globalization of science: Geographical distance measurements of research collaboration. In E.C.M. Noyons, P. Ngulube, and J. Leta, editors, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, pages 181-186, 2011.
M. Luwel, E.C.M. Noyons, and N.J. van Eck. A comparative bibliometric analysis of the STI and the ISSI conference series. In E.C.M. Noyons, P. Ngulube, and J. Leta, editors, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, pages 505-514, 2011.
N.J. van Eck and L. Waltman. VOSviewer: A computer program for bibliometric mapping. In B. Larsen and J. Leta, editors, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, pages 886-897, 2009. VOSviewer is available here.
N.J. van Eck, F. Frasincar, and D. Chang. Cluster-based visualization of concept associations. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Visualisation, pages 409-414, 2008.
R. Kruse, C. Borgelt, D.D. Nauck, N.J. van Eck, and M. Steinbrecher. The role of soft computing in intelligent data analysis. In Final program and abstracts of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, pages 9-17, 2007. Invited paper.
A. Soni, N.J. van Eck and U.Kaymak. Prediction of stock price movements based on concept map information. In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making, pages 205-211, 2007.
N.J. van Eck and L. Waltman. VOS: a new method for visualizing similarities between objects. In H.-J. Lenz and R. Decker, editors, Advances in Data Analysis: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society, Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, pages 299-306. Springer, 2007. Software available at www.neesjanvaneck.nl/vos/.
N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, J. van den Berg, and U. Kaymak. Visualizing the WCCI 2006 knowledge domain. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, pages 7862-7869, 2006. The concept map viewer is available here.
N.J. van Eck, F. Frasincar, and J. van den Berg. Visualizing concept associations using concept density maps. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Visualisation, pages 270-275, 2006.
N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, and J. van den Berg. A novel algorithm for visualizing concept associations. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, pages 405-409, 2005. The ACS viewer software is available here.
J. van den Berg, N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, and U. Kaymak. A VICORE architecture for intelligent knowledge management. In Proceedings of the KDNet Symposium on Knowledge-Based Services for the Public Sector, pages 63-74, 2004.

(Extended) Abstracts

L. Waltman and N.J. van Eck. A general source normalized approach to bibliometric research performance assessment. In Book of Abstracts of the 11th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, pages 298-299, 2010.
A.F.J. van Raan, N.J. van Eck, T.N. van Leeuwen, M. Visser, and L. Waltman. The new set of bibliometric indicators of CWTS. In Book of Abstracts of the 11th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, pages 291-293, 2010.
N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, and E.C.M. Noyons. A unified approach to mapping and clustering of bibliometric networks. In Book of Abstracts of the 11th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, pages 284-287, 2010.
E.C.M. Noyons, L. Waltman, O. Kähler, and N.J. van Eck. Developing a comprehensive Scopus journal classification scheme using bibliometric data. In Book of Abstracts of the 11th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, pages 208-210, 2010.
M. Luwel, E.C.M. Noyons, and N.J. van Eck. A bibliometric analysis of the history of the International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators 1988-2008. In Book of Abstracts of the 11th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, pages 184-186, 2010.
L. Waltman and N.J. van Eck. A taxonomy of bibliometric performance indicators based on the property of consistency. In B. Larsen and J. Leta, editors, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, pages 1002-1003, 2009.
N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, R. Dekker, and J. van den Berg. An experimental comparison of bibliometric mapping techniques. In Book of Abstracts of the 10th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, pages 45-48, 2008. The bibliometric maps are available here.
N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, E. Noyons, and R. Buter. Automatic term identification for bibliometric mapping. In Book of Abstracts of the 10th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, pages 49-52, 2008. The bibliometric maps are available here.
L. Waltman and N.J. van Eck. Equilibria in first-price sealed-bid auctions of multiple heterogeneous objects: A numerical approach. In Book of Abstracts of the 14th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, page 91, 2008.
L. Waltman and N.J. van Eck. An algorithm for calculating the long-run behavior of genetic algorithms in economic modeling. In Book of Abstracts of the 14th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, pages 92-93, 2008.
N.J. van Eck and L. Waltman. Applying ideas from homogeneity analysis to visualize similarity data. In Program and Abstracts of the Conference on Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods, page 89, 2007.
N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, J. van den Berg, and U. Kaymak. On the visualization of the soft computing knowledge domain. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Fuzzy Systems in Computer Science 2006, pages 96-97, 2006. The concept (density) maps and the concept map viewer are available here.
N.J. van Eck and L. Waltman. A comparison of knowledge domain visualization approaches. In Program and Abstracts of the Conference 50 Years of Econometrics, page 22, 2006.
L. Waltman and N.J. van Eck. VOS: a new method for visualizing similarities between objects. In Program and Abstracts of the Conference 50 Years of Econometrics, page 33, 2006.
N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, and J. van den Berg. A new method for visualizing associations between concepts. In Program and Abstracts of the 30th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society, page 195, 2006.
N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, and J. van den Berg. A novel algorithm for visualizing concept associations. In Proceedings of the 17th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 397-398, 2005. The ACS viewer software is available here.

Other Publications

N.J. van Eck and L. Waltman. Text mining and visualization using VOSviewer. ISSI Newsletter, 7(3):50-54, 2011. arXiv:1109.2058. The term maps are available here.
L. Waltman and N.J. van Eck. A simple alternative to the h-index. ISSI Newsletter, 5(3):46-48, 2009.

PhD Thesis

N.J. van Eck. Methodological Advances in Bibliometric Mapping of Science. Erasmus University Rotterdam, ERIM PhD Series Research in Management, EPS-2011-247-LIS, ISBN 978-90-5892-291-5, 2011.