Correction to: Scientometrics (2018) 114:1175–1205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2625-2

In the original publication, Acknowledgements was published with incomplete information. The complete Acknowledgements is given in this correction.

Acknowledgements The authors wish to express their gratitude to anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. The authors would like to acknowledge the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, for providing financial assistance for this research work through “Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme for Electronics & IT”.