NDLI: Comparison of bibliometric measures for assessing relative importance of researchers

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Blagus, Rok Leskošek, Brane L. Stare, Janez
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Quantitative evaluation of citation data to support funding decisions has become widespread. For this purpose there exist many measures (indices) and while their properties were well studied there is little comprehensive experimental comparison of the ranking lists obtained when using different methods. A further problem of the existing studies is that lack of available data about net citations prevents researchers from studying the effect of measuring scientific impact by using net citations (all citations minus self-citations). In this paper we use simulated data to study factors that could potentially influence the degree of agreement between the rankings obtained when using different indices with the emphasis given to the comparison of the number of net citations per author to other more established indices. We observe that the researchers publishing papers with a large number of co-authors are systematically ranked higher when using h-index or total citations (TC) instead of the number of citations per author (TCA), that the researchers who publish a small proportion of papers which receive many citations while the rest of their papers receive only few citations are systematically ranked higher when using TCA or TC instead of h-index, and that the authors who have lower proportion of self-citations are ranked higher when considering indices which include the number of net citations in comparison with indices considering only the total citation count. Results are verified and illustrated also by analyzing a large dataset from the field of medical science in Slovenia for the period 1986–2007.
Starting Page	1743
Ending Page	1762
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01389130
Journal	Scientometrics
Volume Number	105
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15882861
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-06-02
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Bibliometric evaluation Number of citations per author Net citations h-index Information Storage and Retrieval Library Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Library and Information Sciences Computer Science Applications

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Comparison of independent research of China’s top universities using bibliometric indicators

The influence of author self-citations on bibliometric macro indicators

Citations and author numbers in six sciences

H-Classics: characterizing the concept of citation classics through H-index

All author citations versus first author citations

Hg-index: a new index to characterize the scientific output of researchers based on the h- and g-indices

A bibliometric approach to the role of author self-citations in scientific communication

Analysis of bibliometric indicators for individual scholars in a large data set

Gender and the h index in psychology

Comparison of bibliometric measures for assessing relative importance of researchers

Similar Documents

Comparison of independent research of China’s top universities using bibliometric indicators

The influence of author self-citations on bibliometric macro indicators

Citations and author numbers in six sciences

H-Classics: characterizing the concept of citation classics through H-index

All author citations versus first author citations

Hg-index: a new index to characterize the scientific output of researchers based on the h- and g-indices

A bibliometric approach to the role of author self-citations in scientific communication

Analysis of bibliometric indicators for individual scholars in a large data set

Gender and the h index in psychology

Comparison of bibliometric measures for assessing relative importance of researchers