Open Access - die Revolution im wissenschaftlichen Publizieren? - Rafael Ball (ISI, 2004)

Science indicators revisited - Science Citation Index versus SCOPUS: A bibliometric comparison of both citation databases. - Rafael Ball; Dirk Tunger (Inf. Serv. Use, 2006)

Bibliometric analysis - A new business area for information professionals in libraries? - Rafael Ball; Dirk Tunger (Scientometrics, 2006)

NUCLiB - The virtual nuclear engineering library on the Internet. - Rafael Ball; Jürgen Goebelbecker (Inf. Serv. Use, 2007)

E-books in practice: the librarian's perspective. - Rafael Ball (Learn. Publ., 2009)

Scholarly communication in transition: The use of question marks in the titles of scientific articles in medicine, life sciences and physics 1966-2005. - Rafael Ball (Scientometrics, 2009)

Creation of journal-based publication profiles of scientific institutions - A methodology for the interdisciplinary comparison of scientific research based on the J-factor. - Rafael Ball; Bernhard Mittermaier; Dirk Tunger (Scientometrics, 2009)

Bibliotheksverbünde der Zukunft - welche Bibliotheksverbünde? - Rafael Ball (ZfBB, 2014)

Awareness Mentality and Strategic Behavior in Science. - Rafael Ball (Frontiers Res. Metrics Anal., 2021)

Viruses in all Dimensions - How an Information Code Controls Viruses, Software and Microorganisms - Rafael Ball (Viruses in all Dimensions, 2023)