Purpose – To measure the factors contributing to corporate entrepreneurship cultivation and examine the relation between corporate entrepreneurship and innovation performance. Design/methodology/approach – With interviews and questionnaires, 58 large‐middle size enterprises in China were...

Purpose – The paper aims to propose the use of spline functions for the description and visualization of discrete informetric data. Design/methodology/approach – Interpolating cubic splines: are interpolating functions (they pass through the given data points); are cubic, i.e. are...

Purpose – Aims to review Fairthorne's classic article “Empirical hyperbolic distributions (Bradford‐Zipf‐Mandelbrot) for bibliometric description and prediction” ( Journal of Documentation , Vol. 25, pp. 319‐343, 1969), as part of a series marking the Journal of Documentation 's 60th...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify earlier work on journal diffusion metrics. Classical journal indicators such as the Garfield impact factor do not measure the breadth of influence across the literature of a particular journal title. As a new approach to measuring research...

Purpose – The yield period of a journal is defined as the time needed to accumulate the same number of citations as the number of references included during the period of study. Yield sequences are proposed as journal attractivity indicators describing dynamic characteristics of a journal....

Purpose – This paper aims to introduce a general framework for the analysis of knowledge integration and diffusion using bibliometric data. Design/methodology/approach – The authors propose that in order to characterise knowledge integration and diffusion of a given issue (the source, for...

A new definition of the nuclear zone of a Bradford or Leimkuhler curve is proposed. A p‐nucleus is defined within which the gradient of the curve is less than the proportion p of its maximum value. This definition is invariant of scale and so is widely applicable. Using Egghe's fitting method...