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Growing with collaboration: footprint of WISE Lab Yue Chen1   · Zhiqi Wang1 · Kai Song1 · Deming Lin1 · Hildrun Kretschmer2 Received: 23 July 2020 © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2020

Abstract The paper explores the development of WISE Lab during the past 15 years from three complementary perspectives: citation aging characteristics, themes evolution and academic collaboration, based on the research results produced by WISE Lab. The results show that, the half-life of the papers in WISE Lab reaches about 5 years, and the highly cited papers have a longer impact than mainstream papers; WISE Lab is focused on six themes, “Knowledge mapping”, “Visual analysis”, “Scientometrics”, “Patentometrics”, “Information retrieval”, and “Innovation management”, which developed alternately over time; WISE Lab is greatly driven by collaboration, and Prof. Liu contributed in a central way to the team cohesion, his academic spirit and thought influenced widely. Keywords  WISE lab · Citation aging · Theme evolution · Collaboration · Knowledge mapping · Prof. Zeyuan Liu

Introduction Webometrics-Informetrics-Scientometrics-Econometrics Lab (WISE Lab) is affiliated to the Institute of Science of Science and S&T Management in Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China, and it is a research center with the interest of quantitative analysis on science of science. WISE Lab was established by Prof. Zeyuan Liu and Dr. Hildrun Kretschmer jointly in 25th September, 2005. The prosperity of WISE Lab embodies Prof. Liu’s * Yue Chen [email protected] Zhiqi Wang [email protected] Kai Song [email protected] Deming Lin [email protected] Hildrun Kretschmer [email protected] 1

WISE Lab, Institute of Science of Science and S&T management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

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COLLNET Center, Borgsdorfer Str 5, D‑16540 Hohen Neuendorf, Germany



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development philosophy, that is "Measurable science, unmeasurable wisdom; International collaboration, collective young and old”. We commemorate him deeply with this article. WISE Lab firstly introduced the concept and approach of “Knowledge Mapping” to China, and promoted the research in science of science, scientometrics and S&T management in China to a new stage, which was highly praised by Eugene Garfield as "one of the main scientometrics research center in the world" (2009). So far, seven full-time professors, five full-time associated professors and nine part-time professors or visiting scholars are employed in WISE Lab, and over 400 master and doctorate students have been educated in WISE Lab till now. Prof. Liu’s contribution is irreplaceable as the founder and leader of WISE Lab. He first proposed the concept and the framework of "knowledgemetrics" (Liu 1999), first established a theoretical system of Chinese science of science (Liu 2006), first constructed the public course “Principles of Science of Science” for science and engineering postgraduates in China’s university (2012), first introduced the concept and