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Analysis of institutional authors

Fernandez-Crehuet, Jose MariaAuthorGupta, CCorresponding Author

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February 23, 2021
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Freelancing Models for Fostering Innovation and Problem Solving in Software Startups: An Empirical Comparative Study

Publicated to: Sustainability. 12 (23): 1-29 - 2020-12-01 12(23), DOI: 10.3390/su122310106

Authors:

Gupta, Varun; Fernandez-Crehuet, Jose Maria; Gupta, Chetna; Hanne, Thomas
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Affiliations

Univ Appl Sci & Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Sch Business, CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Dept Ingn Org Adm Empresas & Estadist, Madrid 28006, Spain - Author

Keywords

Comparative studyDecision makingEmpirical analysisFranceFreelancersFreelancing modelsIndiaInnovationInnovation managementItalyLong-term changeNumerical modelOutsourcingProblem solvingSoftwareSoftware developmentStartupsTrade-off

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Sustainability due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2020, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Energy Engineering and Power Technology. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations from Scopus Elsevier, it yields a value for the Field-Weighted Citation Impact from the Scopus agency: 1.08, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 13, 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2026-04-27, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 14
  • Scopus: 27
  • Google Scholar: 55
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-27:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 86.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 86 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/91714/
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Switzerland.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Gupta, Varun) .

the authors responsible for correspondence tasks have been Gupta, Varun and GUPTA, CHETNA.

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