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networks of authors. We compare the resulting rankings with self-compiled lists of outstanding researchers selected as frequent …
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It is well-known that the distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed. We ask whether journal rankings … papers for 100 economics journals and recalculate the impact factor. Afterwards we compare the resulting rankings with the … original ones from 2012. Our results show that the rankings are relatively robust. This holds both for the 2-year and the 5 …
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the average number of citations, respectively. Overall, this article suggests that the degree of collaboration and the …
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Ever more frequently, governments have decided to implement policy measures intended to foster and reward excellence in scientific research. This is in fact the intended purpose of national research assessment exercises. These are typically based on the analysis of the quality of the best...
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Unlike competitive higher education systems, non-competitive systems show relatively uniform distributions of top researchers and low performers among universities. In this study, we examine the impact of unproductive and top faculty members on overall research performance of the university they...
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One of the critical issues in bibliometric research assessments is the time required to achieve maturity in citations … observation on accuracy of productivity rankings for research institutions. Research productivity measures are calculated for all … window that optimizes the tradeoff between accuracy of rankings and timeliness of the exercise. …
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propose a set of measures for computing the similarity between rankings induced by ordering the retrieved publications in … decreasing order of the number of citations as reported by the specific tools. The applicability of these measures is … demonstrated and the results show high similarities between the rankings of the ISI Web of Science and Scopus and lower …
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–312] that weight citations according to the prestige of the citing journal (Spearman’s rho=0.93). Four lines of future research …
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Nearly a decade ago, the science community was introduced to the h-index, a proposed statistical measure of the collective impact of the publications of any individual researcher. Of course, any method of reducing a complex data set to a single number will necessarily have certain limitations...
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In general, scientometrics studies tend to focus on citations received from journals (incoming citations) and usually … neglect references to journals (outgoing citations). The aim of this study is to suggest a new approach to the journal impact … factor on a wider scale, i.e., from the viewpoint of citing journals. I studied how citations (references) given by JCR …
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