Purpose – In editorial peer review systems of journals, one does not always accept the best papers. Due to different human perceptions, the evaluation of papers by peer review (for a journal) can be different from the impact that a paper has after its publication (measured by number of...

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...