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Global informetric impact: A description and definition using bundles

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  • Egghe, Leo
  • Rousseau, Ronald

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Inspired by the Lorenz curve for evenness or concentration, and the corresponding axioms, we construct a theory leading to the notion of global impact. In this theory, we construct a relation that plays the role of the Lorenz dominance order for evenness or concentration theory. The notion of global impact that we obtain is such that well-known global impact bundles such as percentiles, the cumulative number of items produced by the x most productive sources, the average production of the x most productive sources, the generalized h- and g-indices, and the highest number of citations indeed measure impact in our sense of the word.

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  • Egghe, Leo & Rousseau, Ronald, 2023. "Global informetric impact: A description and definition using bundles," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 17(1).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:infome:v:17:y:2023:i:1:s1751157722001195
    DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2022.101366
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