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SELECTED ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS

† = equal contribution

* = corresponding author(s)

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Student(s) mentored by Bu

2024

  • Wang, D., Huang, Y., Hu, L., Cheng, Q., & Bu, Y.*  (2024). Inequality of authors’ reference reuse. Journal of Information Science, DOI: 10.1177/01655515221111062. [LINK]

  • Wu, L., Yi, F., Bu, Y., Lu, W., & Huang, Y. (2024). Towards scientific collaboration: A cost-benefit perspective. Research Policy, 53(2), 104943. [LINK]

  • Xu, H., Liu, M., Bu, Y., Sun, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, C., Acuna, D. E., Gray, S., Meyer, E., & Ding, Y. (2024). The impact of heterogeneous shared leadership in scientific teams. Information Processing and Management, 61(1), 103542.​ [LINK]

  • Liu, X., Bu, Y., Li, M., & Li, J. (2024). Monodisciplinary collaboration disrupts science more than multidisciplinary collaboration. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 75(1), 59-78. [LINK]​​

2023

  • Liu, M., Yang, S., Bu, Y., & Zhang, N. (2023). Female early-career scientists have conducted less interdisciplinary research in the past six decades: Evidence from doctoral theses. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10, 918-933. [LINK]

    • ​Information Matters, a digital-only communication forum sponsored by ASIS&T, publishes a translated version of this paper for wider audiences: Liu, M., Yang, S., Bu, Y., & Zhang, N. (2023, December 12). Are Female Early-Career Scientists Less Likely to Conduct Interdisciplinary Research? Information Matters. [LINK]

  • Fang, Z., Huang, W.-b., & Bu, Y.* (2023). Towards impact tenacity of academic institutions: A case study in Informetrics. Data Science and Informetrics.

  • Huang, J., Huang, W.-b., Bu, Y., Cao, Q., Shen, H., & Cheng, X. (2023). What makes a successful rebuttal in computer science conferences? A perspective on social interaction. Journal of Informetrics.

  • Wang, Y., Bu, Y., & Huang, W.-b. (2023). Query-focused summarization in research articles based on semantic function of sentences. Journal of Information Science, 49(1), 32-42. [LINK]

2022

  • Dong, X., Xu, J., Bu, Y.*, Zhang, C., Ding, Y., Hu, B., & Ding, Y. (2022). Beyond correlation: Towards matching strategy for causal inference in Information Science. Journal of Information Science, 48(6), 735-748. [LINK]

  • Xu, H., Bu, Y., Liu, M., Zhang, C., Sun, M., Zhang, Y., Meyer, E., Salas, E., & Ding, Y. (2022). Team power dynamics and team impact: New perspectives on scientific collaboration using career age as a proxy for team power. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 73(10), 1489-1505. [arXiv] [LINK]

    • ​This paper was reported by Linmo WeChat (social network) platform: "Join the team of senior or young mentors?" [LINK]

  • Gou, Z., Meng, F., Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Z., & Bu, Y.*  (2022). Encoding the citations life-cycle: The operationalization of a literature aging conceptual model. Scientometrics, 127(8), 5027-5052. [LINK]

  • Liu, J., Chen, H., Liu, Z., Bu, Y., & Gu, W. (2022). Non-linearity between referencing behavior and citation impact: A large-scale, discipline-level analysis. Journal of Informetrics, 16(3), 101318. [LINK]

  • Bu, Y.,  Li, H., Wei, C., Liu, M., & Li, J. (2022). On the relationship between supervisor-supervisee gender difference and scientific impact of doctoral dissertations: Evidence from Humanities and Social Sciences in China. Journal of Information Science, 48(4), 492-502. [LINK]

  • Liu, M., Bu, Y., Chen, C., Xu, J., Li, D., Leng, Y., Freeman, R. B., Meyer, E. T., Yoon, W., Sung, M., Jeong, M., Lee, J., Kang, J., Min, C., Song, M., Zhai, Y., & Ding, Y. (2022). Pandemics are catalysts of scientific novelty: Evidence from COVID-19. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 73(8), 1065-1078. [LINK]

    • This is the cover paper of JASIST volume 73 issue 8. [LINK]

    • This paper was featured on Nature Feature: “How the COVID pandemic is changing global science collaborations” [LINK]

    • This paper was featured in the Atlantic Daily: "How science beat the virus" [LINK]​

    • Information Matters, a digital-only communication forum sponsored by ASIS&T, publishes a translated version of this paper for wider audiences: Liu, M., Bu, Y., & Ding, Y. (2022, January 19). The effects of COVID-19 on scientific novelty and collaboration. Information Matters. [LINK]

    • This paper was reported by Linmo WeChat (social network) platform: "COVID, innovation, and scientific collaboration" [LINK]

    • This paper is recommended by the Journal of Information Resources Management. [LINK]

  • Liu, S., Chen, H., & Bu, Y.* (2022). Comparing different perspectives of characterizing interdisciplinarity of scientific publications: Author vs. publication perspectives. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2022), June 20-24, 2022, Cologne, Germany. [LINK]

  • Liu, M., Zhang, N., Hu, X., Jaiswal, A., Xu, J., Ding, Y., Chen, H., & Bu, Y.* (2022). Further divided gender gaps in research productivity and collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from coronavirus-related literature. Journal of Informetrics, 16(2), 101295. [LINK​]

    • ​This paper was featured on Linmo WeChat (social network) platform: "Has the epidemic exacerbated gender inequality in science?" [LINK]

  • Huang, Y., Lu, W., Liu, J., Cheng, Q., & Bu, Y.* (2022). Towards transdisciplinary impact of scientific publications: A longitudinal, comprehensive, and large-scale analysis on Microsoft Academic Graph. Information Processing and Management, 59(2), 102859. [LINK]

2021

  • Huang, Y.†, Bu, Y.†, Ding, Y., & Lu, W. (2021). Exploring direct citations between citing publications. Journal of Information Science, 47(5), 615-626. [LINK]

  • Huang, Y.†, Bu, Y.†, Ding, Y., & Lu, W. (2021). Partitioning highly, medium, and lowly cited publications. Journal of Information Science, 47(5), 609-614. [LINK]

  • Zhao, Z., Bu, Y., & Li, J. (2021). Characterizing scientists leaving science before their time: Evidence from mathematics. Information Processing and Management, 58(5), 102661. [PDF]

  • Min, C., Xu, J., Han, T., & Bu, Y. (2021). References of references: How far is the knowledge ancestry? In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2021), September 27-31, 2021, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. [LINK]

  • Xu, J., Min, C., Huang, W.-B., & Bu, Y.* (2021). Interdisciplinarity vs. unidisciplinarity: A structural comparison of multi-generation citations and references. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2021) (pp. 1259-1264), July 12-15, 2021, Leuven, Belgium. [PDF]

  • Gou, Z., Meng, F., Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Z., & Bu, Y.* (2021). Revisiting the obsolescence process of individual scientific publications: Operationalisation and a preliminary cross-discipline exploration. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2021) (pp. 477-488), July 12-15, 2021, Leuven, Belgium. [PDF]

    • This is one of the six premium talks at ISSI 2021.​

  • Bu, Y.†, Li, M.†, Gu, W., & Huang, W.-B. (2021). Topic diversity: A discipline scheme-free diversity measurement for journals. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(5), 523-539. [PDF] [LINK]

    • This is the cover paper of JASIST volume 72 issue 5. [LINK]​

    • Information Matters, a digital-only communication forum sponsored by ASIS&T, publishes a translated version of this paper for wider audiences: Bu, Y. (2021, December 21). Measuring interdisciplinarity: A scientometric perspective. Information Matters. [LINK]

  • Yu, Q., Wang, Q., Zhang, Y., Chen, C., Ryu, H., Park, N., Baek, J.-E., Li, K., Wu, Y., Li, D., Xu, J., Liu, M., Yang J. J., Zhang, C., Lu, C., Zhang, P., Li, X., Chen, B., Ebeid, I. A., Fensel, J., Min, C., Zhai, Y., Song, M.*, Ding, Y., & Bu, Y.* (2021). Analyzing knowledge entities about COVID-19 using entitymetrics. Scientometrics, 126(5), 4491-4509. [LINK]

  • Hu, B., Ding, Y., Dong, X., Bu, Y.,*, Ding, Y. (2021). On the relationship between download and citation counts: An introduction of Granger-causality inference. Journal of Informetrics, 15(2), 101125. [LINK]

  • Bu, Y.*, Waltman, L., & Huang, Y. (2021). A multidimensional framework for characterizing the citation impact of scientific publications. Quantitative Science Studies, 2(1), 155-183. [LINK]

  • Min, C., Bu, Y., & Sun, J. (2021). Predicting scientific breakthroughs based on knowledge structure variations. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 164, 120502. [LINK]

  • Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Z., Bu, Y.*, Robinson-García, N., & Sugimoto, C. R. (2021). An empirical review of the different variants of the probabilistic affinity index as applied to scientific collaboration. Scientometrics, 126(2), 1775-1795. [LINK]

  • Bu, Y., Lu, W., Wu, Y., Chen, H., & Huang, Y. (2021). How wide is the citation impact of scientific publications? A cross-discipline and large-scale analysis. Information Processing and Management, 58(1), 102429. [LINK]

  • Min, C., Chen, Q., Yan, E., Bu, Y., & Sun, J. (2021). Citation cascade and the evolution of topic relevance. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 72(1), 110-127. [LINK]

2020

  • Bu, Y.†, Huang, Y.†, & Lu, W. (2020). Loops in publication citation networks. Journal of Information Science, 46(6), 837-848. [LINK]

  • Bu, Y., Wang, B., Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Z., Sugimoto, C. R., Huang, Y., & Huang, W.-B. (2020). Considering author sequence in all-author co-citation analysis. Information Processing and Management, 57(6), 102300. [LINK]

  • Xu, J., Kim, S., Jeong, M., Kim, D., Kang, J., Rousseau, J. F., Li, X., Xu, W., Torvik, V. I., Bu, Y., Chen, C., Ebeid, I. A., Li, D., & Ding, Y. (2020). Building a PubMed knowledge graph. Scientific Data, 7, 205. [LINK]

  • Kong, X., Zhang, J., Zhang, D., Bu, Y., Ding, Y., & Xia, F. (2020). The gene of scientific success. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data, 14(4), 41-59. [LINK]

    • ​​This paper was covered by the Nature Index: "Predicting your future h-index—Study aims to forecast success." [LINK]

    • This paper was also mentioned by Linmo (林墨), a WeChat social media platform: "Is the future impact of scientists predictable?" [LINK]

  • Zhao, Z., Bu, Y., Kang, L., Min, C., Bian, Y., Tang, L., & Li, J. (2020). An investigation of the relationship between scientists’ mobility to/from China and their research performance. Journal of Informetrics, 14(2), 101037. [LINK]

2019

  • Huang, Y.†, Bu, Y.†, Ding, Y., & Lu, W. (2019). From zero to one: A citing perspective. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 70(10), 1098-1107. [PDF] [LINK]

  • Bu, Y., Zhang, C., Huang, Y., & Sugimoto, C. R., & Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Z. (2019). Investigating scientific collaboration through the sequence of authors in the publication bylines and the diversity of collaborators. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2019) (pp. 2300-2305), September 2-5, 2019, Rome, Italy.

  • Lu, C., Bu, Y., Dong, X., Wang, J., Ding, Y., Larivière, V., Sugimoto, C. R., Paul, L., & Zhang, C. (2019). Analyzing linguistic complexity and scientific impact. Journal of Informetrics, 13(3), 817-829. [PDF] [LINK]

  • Lu, C., Bu, Y., Wang, J., Ding, Y., Torvik, V. I., Schnaars, M., & Zhang, C. (2019). Examining scientific writing styles from the perspective of linguistic complexity. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 70(5), 462-475. [PDF] [LINK]

2018

  • Huang, Y.†, Bu, Y.†, Ding, Y., & Lu, W. (2018). Number versus structure: Towards citing cascades. Scientometrics, 117(3), 2177-2193. [PDF] [LINK]

  • Bu, Y., Murray, D. S., Xu, J., Ding, Y., Ai, P., Shen, J., & Yang, F. (2018). Analyzing scientific collaboration with “giants” based on the milestones of career. In Proceedings of the 81st Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T 2018) (pp. 29-38), November 10-14, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [PDF] [LINK]

  • Min, C., Ding, Y., Li, J., Bu, Y., Pei, L., & Sun, J. (2018). Innovation or imitation: The diffusion of citations. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 69(10), 1271-1282. [PDF] [LINK]

  • Bu, Y., Wang, B., Huang, W.-B., Che, S., & Huang, Y. (2018). Using the appearance of citations in full text on author co-citation analysis. Scientometrics, 116(1), 275-289. [PDF] [LINK]

  • Bu, Y., Ding, Y., Liang, X., & Murray, D. S. (2018). Understanding persistent scientific collaboration. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 69(3), 438-448. [PDF] [LINK]

  • Bu, Y., Murray, D. S., Ding, Y., Huang, Y., & Zhao, Y. (2018). Measuring the stability of scientific collaboration. Scientometrics, 114(2), 463-479. [PDF] [LINK]

  • Bu, Y., Ding, Y., Xu, J., Liang, X., Gao, G., & Zhao, Y. (2018). Understanding success through the diversity of collaborators and the milestone of career. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 69(1), 87-97. [PDF] [LINK]

  • Zhang, C., Bu, Y., Ding, Y., & Xu, J. (2018). Understanding scientific collaboration: Homophily, transitivity, and preferential attachment. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 69(1), 72-86. [PDF] [LINK]

    • This is one of the top 20 most read papers in JASIST (2017-2018).

2017 and before

  • Bu, Y., Ni, S., & Huang, W.-B. (2017). Combining multiple scholarly relationships with author cocitation analysis: A preliminary exploration on improving knowledge domain mappings. Journal of Informetrics, 11(3), 810-822. [PDF] [LINK]​

  • Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Z., Bu, Y., Robinson-Garcia, N., Costas, R., & Sugimoto, C. R. (2017). Revealing existing and potential partnerships: Affinities and asymmetries in international collaboration and mobility. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2017) (pp. 869-880), October 16-20, 2017, Wuhan, Hubei, China. [PDF] [LINK] 

  • Bu, Y., Wang, B., Huang, W.-B., & Che, S. (2017). MFTACA: An author cocitation analysis method combined with metadata in full text. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2017) (pp. 916-927), October 16-20, 2017, Wuhan, Hubei, China. [PDF] [LINK]

  • Bu, Y., Liu, T., & Huang, W.-B. (2016). MACA: A modified author co-citation analysis method combined with general descriptive metadata of citations. Scientometrics, 108(1), 143-166. [PDF] [LINK]

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