**Meet the editors**

Mari Jibu has been a fellow at the Center for Research and Development Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), since 2008. She received her MBA degree from McGill University and her PhD degree in Medicine from Okayama University. Her professional experience includes an assistant from 1987 to 1994, a lecturer from 1994 to 2000, and an associate professor from

2000 to 2005, Notre Dame Seishin University. She also worked as a senior research fellow from 2005 to 2008 at NISTEP, MEXT. She also served as a consultant, an economist, and a policy analyst in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2013–2016). She received the Best Paper Award in 1997 from the 11th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research. Her research interests include science and technology policy, scientometrics, and quantum brain dynamics (QBD).

Yoshiyuki Osabe is a deputy director from the Patent Information Policy Planning Division, Japan Patent Office. He graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, and Graduate School in the University of Tokyo. With majors in Intellectual Property and Biotechnology, he joined the Japan Patent Office in 2002. Yoshiyuki is a visiting scientist in Cath-

olic University of Leuven, Belgium; the deputy director in Bio-industry Division, METI; an economist/IP analyst in OECD; and an administrative judge in JPO. He has authored *Towards More Inclusive IP Analysis by Frontier Tools* (Intellectual Property Rights). His other authored works include *Innovation Front and Technology Linkage* (Business and Management Studies (2016), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 88–94) and *Future Information Technology* (Springer, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 309 (2014), pp. 549–554).

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 2 Bibliometric Analysis 7**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Scientometrics 3** Yoshiyuki Osabe and Mari Jibu

Meen Chul Kim and Yongjun Zhu

**Emerging Discipline 49**

de Moya-Anegón

Chapter 2 **Scientometrics of Scientometrics: Mapping Historical Footprint and Emerging Technologies in Scientometrics 9**

Chapter 3 **Patterns of Academic Scientific Collaboration at a Distance: Evidence from Southern European Countries 29** Ana Fernández, Esther Ferrándiz and M. Dolores León

Chapter 4 **Mapping a Research Field: Analyzing the Research Fronts in an**

Chapter 5 **Collaboration and Citation Analysis Within Social Sciences: A Comparative Analysis Between Two Fields 65** Alexander Maz-Machado and Noelia Jiménez-Fanjul

Chapter 6 **A Scientometric Study on Graphene and Related Graphene-**

Somoes Machado, Mauro Mattioli and Barbara Barboni

**Based Materials in Medicine 83**

Gerardo Tibaná-Herrera, María Teresa Fernández-Bajón and Félix

Nicola Bernabò, Rosa Ciccarelli, Alessandra Ordinelli, Juliana Sofia

**Section 1 Introduction 1**
