Inconsistencies of the Highly-Cited-Publications Indicator
classification
💻 cs.DL
physics.soc-ph
keywords
inconsistenciesindicatorscientistsbehavescitedcounterintuitivedeterminationdifferent
read the original abstract
One way of evaluating individual scientists is the determination of the number of highly cited publications, where the threshold is given by a large reference set. It is shown that this indicator behaves in a counterintuitive way, leading to inconsistencies in the ranking of different scientists.
This paper has not been read by Pith yet.
discussion (0)
Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.