Fairer citation based metrics
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.
Citation
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
Publication
Publishing Research Quarterly
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1053-8801Type
Journal article
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