| A retrospective look at PD projects A Clement, P Van den Besselaar Communications of the ACM 36 (6), 29-37, 1993 | 546 | 1993 |
| Disciplinary, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary: Concepts and indicators P Van den Besselaar, G Heimeriks ISSI, 705-716, 2001 | 336 | 2001 |
| Gender differences in scientific productivity: a persisting phenomenon? P Van Arensbergen, I Van der Weijden, P Van den Besselaar Scientometrics 93 (3), 857-868, 2012 | 309 | 2012 |
| Comparing the evolution of national research policies: what patterns of change? B Lepori, P Van den Besselaar, M Dinges, B Potì, E Reale, S Slipersæter, ... Science and public policy 34 (6), 372-388, 2007 | 295 | 2007 |
| Mapping research topics using word-reference co-occurrences: A method and an exploratory case study P Van den Besselaar, G Heimeriks Scientometrics 68 (3), 377-393, 2006 | 281 | 2006 |
| Evolutionary economics and chaos theory: New directions in technology studies L Leydesdorff, P Van den Besselaar LondonPinter Publishers, 1994 | 248 | 1994 |
| Gender differences in research performance and its impact on careers: a longitudinal case study P Van den Besselaar, U Sandström Scientometrics 106, 143-162, 2016 | 241 | 2016 |
| Vicious circles of gender bias, lower positions, and lower performance: Gender differences in scholarly productivity and impact P Van den Besselaar, U Sandström PloS one 12 (8), e0183301, 2017 | 200 | 2017 |
| Understanding societal impact through productive interactions: ICT research as a case S De Jong, K Barker, D Cox, T Sveinsdottir, P Van den Besselaar Research Evaluation 23 (2), 89-102, 2014 | 198 | 2014 |
| Past performance, peer review and project selection: a case study in the social and behavioral sciences P Van den Besselaar, L Leydesdorff Research Evaluation 18 (4), 273-288, 2009 | 171* | 2009 |
| Quantity and/or quality? The importance of publishing many papers U Sandström, P Van den Besselaar PLoS One 11 (11), e0166149, 2016 | 167 | 2016 |
| Mapping change in scientific specialties: A scientometric reconstruction of the development of artificial intelligence P Van den Besselaar, L Leydesdorff Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47 (6), 415-436, 1996 | 159* | 1996 |
| Models of science dynamics: Encounters between complexity theory and information sciences A Scharnhorst, K Börner, P Van den Besselaar Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 | 154 | 2012 |
| From small scale to large scale user participation: a case study of participatory design in e-government systems AM Oostveen, P Van den Besselaar Proceedings of the eighth conference on Participatory design: Artful …, 2004 | 145 | 2004 |
| Mapping communication and collaboration in heterogeneous research networks G Heimeriks, M Hörlesberger, P Van den Besselaar Scientometrics 58 (2), 391-413, 2003 | 132 | 2003 |
| Evaluation of research in context: an approach and two cases SPL De Jong, P van Arensbergen, F Daemen, B van der Meulen, ... Research evaluation 20 (1), 61-72, 2011 | 127 | 2011 |
| Funding, evaluation, and the performance of national research systems U Sandström, P Van den Besselaar Journal of Informetrics 12 (1), 365-384, 2018 | 124* | 2018 |
| How do young tenured professors benefit from a mentor? Effects on management, motivation and performance I van der Weijden, R Belder, P Van Arensbergen, P Van Den Besselaar Higher Education 69, 275-287, 2015 | 117 | 2015 |
| Determinants of success in academic careers B Van Balen, P Van Arensbergen, I Van Der Weijden, ... Higher Education Policy 25, 313-334, 2012 | 113 | 2012 |
| A meta-evaluation of scientific research proposals: Different ways of comparing rejected to awarded applications L Bornmann, L Leydesdorff, P Van den Besselaar Journal of Informetrics 4 (3), 211-220, 2010 | 112 | 2010 |
