---
title: "Lutz Bornmann"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Lutz Bornmann"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-29T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Highly Cited Researchers list","bibliometrics methodology","King Abdulaziz University","citation-counting conventions"]
---


Bibliometrician who, with Johann Bauer, independently re-derived
Highly-Cited-Researcher counts per institution directly from the original 2014
Thomson Reuters list (arXiv:1407.2037) — using a different counting
convention (all listed affiliations, not just the primary one) that puts King
Abdulaziz University at #2 worldwide, an order of magnitude above the
"primary affiliation" count the rest of the vault's Saudi-HCR cluster tracks.
The clean demonstration that a bibliometric figure is only as meaningful as
the counting rule behind it.

## References

- [[claim-bornmann-bauer-2014-2015-independent-hcr-count-diverges-from-primary-affiliation-count]]