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Dr Jonathan Levitt
Principal Investigator
Interests and experience
Research interests in informetrics, bibliometrics, citation analysis, scholarly communication, collaboration, disciplinarity, monitoring funding, research evaluation, and research policy. Also interested in researching the information needs of people with disabilities.
Current research
Principal Investigator on the ESRC funded project 'Using bibliometric data in the effective allocation of research funding'.
External activities
Honorary Research Fellow of the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, University of Wolverhampton
Member of the ESRC Peer Review College
Chair of the Metrics SIG of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)
Reviewed submissions to the Information User track of ASIST, International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics conference, the Science and Technology Indicators conference and the Journal of Informetrics
Member of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)
Member of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
Selected publications
- Levitt J.M., Thelwall M. and Oppenheim C. (in press 2011). Variations between subjects in the extent to which the social sciences have become more interdisciplinary. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
- Levitt J.M. and Thelwall M. (2011,). A combined bibliometric indicator to predict article impact. Information Processing and Management,Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 300-308. Preprint.
- Levitt J.M. and Thelwall M. (2010). Does the higher citation of collaborative research differ from region to region? A case study of Economics. Scientometrics, Vol. 85, No. 1, pp. 171−183.
- Levitt J.M. and Thelwall M. (2009). Citation levels and collaboration within Library and Information Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 434−442. Preprint.
- Levitt J.M. and Thelwall M. (2009). The most highly cited Library and Information Science articles: Interdisciplinarity, first authors and citation patterns. Scientometrics, Vol 78, No. 1, pp. 45−67.
- Levitt J.M. and Thelwall M. (2008). Is multidisciplinary research more highly cited? A macro-level study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 1973−1984. Preprint. Report in the Times Higher Education.
Contact details
Email: J.Levitt@lboro.ac.uk |
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