Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (22 p)
Edition:
2010 World Bank eLibrary
Parallel Title:
Wagstaff, Adam On Measuring Scientific Influence
Abstract:
Bibliometric measures based on citations are widely used in assessing the scientific publication records of authors, institutions and journals. Yet currently favored measures lack a clear conceptual foundation and are known to have counter-intuitive properties. The authors propose a new approach that is grounded on a theoretical "influence function," representing explicit prior beliefs about how citations reflect influence. They provide conditions for robust qualitative comparisons of influence - conditions that can be implemented using readily-available data. An example is provided using the economics publication records of selected universities and the World Bank
DOI:
10.1596/1813-9450-5375
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