High-impact and transformative science (HITS) metrics: Definition, exemplification, and comparison

• Joseph Staudt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Staudt, Huifeng Yu, Robert P. Light, Gerald Marschke, Katy Börner, Bruce A. Weinberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Huifeng Yu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Staudt, Huifeng Yu, Robert P. Light, Gerald Marschke, Katy Börner, Bruce A. Weinberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Robert P. Light ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Staudt, Huifeng Yu, Robert P. Light, Gerald Marschke, Katy Börner, Bruce A. Weinberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CNS, School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• Gerald Marschke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Staudt, Huifeng Yu, Robert P. Light, Gerald Marschke, Katy Börner, Bruce A. Weinberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marschke@albany.edu

  Affiliations University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York, United States of America, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8231-5625

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• Katy Börner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Staudt, Huifeng Yu, Robert P. Light, Gerald Marschke, Katy Börner, Bruce A. Weinberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CNS, School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, Indiana Network Science Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• Bruce A. Weinberg

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Staudt, Huifeng Yu, Robert P. Light, Gerald Marschke, Katy Börner, Bruce A. Weinberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8856-1803

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