Measuring researchers’ potential scholarly impact with structural variations: Four types of researchers in information science (1979–2018)

• Jianhua Hou ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: houjh5@mail.sysu.edu.cn

  Affiliation School of Information Management, Sun Yat-sen University, Panyu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2568-0930

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• Xiucai Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Economics and Management, Dalian University, Dalian Economic Technological Development Zone, Dalian, China

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• Chaomei Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America, Department of Information Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8584-1041

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