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Fairer Citation Based Metrics.
- Source :
- Publishing Research Quarterly; Sep2016, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p163-169, 7p, 1 Chart, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- I describe a simple modification which can be applied to any citation count based index (e.g. Hirsch's h-index) quantifying a researcher's publication output. The key idea behind the proposed approach is that the merit for the citations of a paper should be distributed amongst its authors according to their relative contributions. In addition to producing inherently fairer metrics I show that the proposed modification has the potential to normalize partially for the unfair effects of honorary authorship and thus discourage this practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PUBLISHING
CITATION analysis
SCHOLARLY publishing
AUTHORSHIP
BIBLIOMETRICS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10538801
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Publishing Research Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 117125436
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-016-9461-8