I give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a cardinal utility function to represent, through summation, rankings of scientific units based on their journal articles and its citations. I discuss and interpret the meaning of those conditions, its connections with inequality...

Purpose: I provide a framework to construct rankings of scientists based on journal articles and their citations. Design/Methodology/Approach: I assume a model in which the quantity and the impact of publications are economic goods and scientific committees derive utility from them. The...