Fairer citation based metrics

Ognjen Arandelovic

doi:10.1007/s12109-016-9461-8

Fairer citation based metrics

Ognjen Arandelovic

School of Computer Science

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	163-169
Number of pages	7
Journal	Publishing Research Quarterly
Volume	32
Issue number	3
Early online date	7 Jun 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-016-9461-8
Publication status	Published - Sept 2016

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Publication
Index
Quantification
Research
Output

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