Raf Guns

Biographic Data

ID9458077
NAMERaf Guns
GIVEN NAMESRaf
FAMILY NAMEGuns
SIGNATUREGUNS R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Antwerp
ORCID0000-0003-3129-0330
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Comparing disciplinary classifications in SSH

    Open AccessCristina Arhiliuc, Raf Guns et al.ARTICLEScientometrics2026

  • Journal article classification using abstracts

    Open AccessCristina Arhiliuc, Raf Guns et al.ARTICLEScientometrics2025

  • Tracking the featured topics of the International Science of Team Science conference series and their evolution during 2010–2019

    Open AccessRuinan Li, Raf Guns et al.ARTICLEScientometrics2023

  • Disciplinary collaboration rates in the social sciences and humanities

    Open AccessCristina Arhiliuc, Raf GunsARTICLEScientometrics2023

  • Subject specialties as interdisciplinary trading grounds

    Open AccessJoshua Eykens, Raf Guns et al.ARTICLEScientometrics2022

  • Tracing the context in disciplinary classifications

    Open AccessLinda Sīle, Raf Guns et al.ARTICLEQuantitative Science Studies2021

    Despite the centrality of disciplinary classifications in bibliometric analyses, it is not well known how the choice of disciplinary classification influences bibliometric representations of research in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). This is especially crucial when using data from national databases. Therefore, we examine the differences in the disciplinary profile of an article along with the absolute and relative number of articles a…

  • Performance-based publisher ratings and the visibility/impact of books

    Open AccessAlesia A Zuccala, Janne Pölönen et al.ARTICLEQuantitative Science Studies2021

    This study compares publisher ratings to the visibility and impact of individual books, based on a 2017 data set from three Nordic performance-based research funding systems (PRFS) (Denmark, Norway, and Finland). Although there are Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) for journals, there is no similar indicator for book publishers. National publisher lists are used instead to account for the general “quality” of books, leading to institutional rewards. …

  • Fine-grained classification of social science journal articles using textual data

    Open AccessJoshua Eykens, Raf Guns et al.ARTICLEQuantitative Science Studies2021

    We compare two supervised machine learning algorithms—Multinomial Naïve Bayes and Gradient Boosting—to classify social science articles using textual data. The high level of granularity of the classification scheme used and the possibility that multiple categories are assigned to a document make this task challenging. To collect the training data, we query three discipline specific thesauri to retrieve articles corresponding to specialties in the…

  • Which aspects of the Open Science agenda are most relevant to scientometric research and publishing? An opinion paper

    Open AccessLutz Bornmann, Raf Guns et al.ARTICLEQuantitative Science Studies2021

    Open Science is an umbrella term that encompasses many recommendations for possible changes in research practices, management, and publishing with the objective to increase transparency and accessibility. This has become an important science policy issue that all disciplines should consider. Many Open Science recommendations may be valuable for the further development of research and publishing, but not all are relevant to all fields. This opinio…

  • Open access at the national level

    Open AccessJanne Pölönen, Mikael Laakso et al.ARTICLEQuantitative Science Studies2020

    Open access (OA) has mostly been studied by relying on publication data from selective international databases, notably Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. The aim of our study is to show that it is possible to achieve a national estimate of the number and share of OA based on institutional publication data providing a comprehensive coverage of the peer-reviewed outputs across fields, publication types, and languages. Our data consists of 48,177 jou…

  • Publication patterns in the social sciences and humanities

    Open AccessEmanuel Kulczycki, Tim C E Engels et al.ARTICLEScientometrics2018

    This study investigates patterns in the language and type of social sciences and humanities (SSH) publications in non-English speaking European countries to demonstrate that such patterns are related not only to discipline but also to each country’s cultural and historic heritage. We investigate publication patterns that occur across SSH publications of the whole of the SSH and of economics and business, law, and philosophy and theology publicati…