Inconsistencies of the Highly-Cited-Publications Indicator

📝 Original Info

• Title: Inconsistencies of the Highly-Cited-Publications Indicator
• ArXiv ID: 1302.6391
• Date: 2013-05-09
• Authors: Researchers from original ArXiv paper

📝 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.

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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.

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