Fairer citation based metrics
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09/2016Author
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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.
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Arandelovic , O 2016 , ' Fairer citation based metrics ' , Publishing Research Quarterly , vol. 32 , no. 3 , pp. 163-169 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-016-9461-8
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Publishing Research Quarterly
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Peer reviewed
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1053-8801Type
Journal article
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© The Author(s) 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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