An empirical approach to compare the performance of heterogeneous academic fields
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-1038-0
Download full text from publisher
As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.
References listed on IDEAS
- T. S. Evans & N. Hopkins & B. S. Kaube, 2012. "Universality of performance indicators based on citation and reference counts," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 93(2), pages 473-495, November.
- Katz, J. Sylvan, 1999. "The self-similar science system1," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 28(5), pages 501-517, June.
- Rodrigo Costas & Thed N. van Leeuwen & María Bordons, 2010. "A bibliometric classificatory approach for the study and assessment of research performance at the individual level: The effects of age on productivity and impact," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 61(8), pages 1564-1581, August.
- Pedro Albarrán & Juan A. Crespo & Ignacio Ortuño & Javier Ruiz-Castillo, 2011.
"The skewness of science in 219 sub-fields and a number of aggregates,"
Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 88(2), pages 385-397, August.
- Ruiz-Castillo, Javier & Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio & Albarran, Pedro & Crespo, Juan A., 2010. "The Skewness of Science in 219 Sub-Fields and a Number of Aggregates," CEPR Discussion Papers 8126, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Albarrán, Pedro & Crespo, Juan A. & Ortuño, Ignacio, 2011. "The skewness of science in 219 sub-fields and a number of aggregates," UC3M Working papers. Economics we1109, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de EconomÃa.
- Crespo, Juan A. & Albarrán, Pedro & Ortuño, Ignacio, 2010. "The skewness of science in 219 sub-fields and a number of aggregates," UC3M Working papers. Economics we1038, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de EconomÃa.
- Rodrigo Costas & Thed N. van Leeuwen & María Bordons, 2010. "A bibliometric classificatory approach for the study and assessment of research performance at the individual level: The effects of age on productivity and impact," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 61(8), pages 1564-1581, August.
- S. Redner, 1998. "How popular is your paper? An empirical study of the citation distribution," The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, Springer;EDP Sciences, vol. 4(2), pages 131-134, July.
- Daraio, Cinzia & Moed, Henk F., 2011. "Is Italian science declining?," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 40(10), pages 1380-1392.
- Wolfgang G. Stock, 2006. "On relevance distributions," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 57(8), pages 1126-1129, June.
- Daraio, Cinzia & Bonaccorsi, Andrea & Geuna, Aldo & Lepori, Benedetto & Bach, Laurent & Bogetoft, Peter & F. Cardoso, Margarida & Castro-Martinez, Elena & Crespi, Gustavo & de Lucio, Ignacio Fernandez, 2011.
"The European university landscape: A micro characterization based on evidence from the Aquameth project,"
Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 40(1), pages 148-164, February.
- Cinzia Daraio & Andrea Bonaccorsi & Aldo Geuna & Benedetto Lepori & Laurent Bach & Peter Bogetoft & Margarida Fonseca Cardoso & Elena Castro-Martinez & Gustavo Crespi & Ignacio Fernández de Lucio & Ha, 2011. "The European university landscape : A micro characterization based on evidence from the Aquameth project," Post-Print hal-01804931, HAL.
- Cinzia Daraio & Andrea Bonaccorsi & Aldo Geuna & Benedetto Lepori & Laurent Bach & Peter Bogetoft & Margarida Fonseca Cardoso & Elena Castro-Martinez & Gustavo Crespi & Ignacio Fernández de Lucio & Ha, 2011. "The European university landscape : A micro characterization based on evidence from the Aquameth project," Grenoble Ecole de Management (Post-Print) hal-01804931, HAL.
- Daraio, Cinzia & Bonaccorsi, Andrea & Geuna, Aldo & Lepori, Benedetto & Bach, Laurent & Simar, Leopold & Vanden Eeckaut, Philippe, 2011. "The European university landscape: A micro characterization based on evidence from the Aquameth project," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2011041, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
- Anthony F. J. Van Raan, 2001. "Competition amongst scientists for publication status:Toward a model of scientific publication and citation distributions," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 51(1), pages 347-357, April.
- Ludo Waltman & Nees Jan van Eck & Anthony F. J. van Raan, 2012. "Universality of citation distributions revisited," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 63(1), pages 72-77, January.
- Enrico Deiaco & Alan Hughes & Maureen McKelvey, 2012. "Universities as strategic actors in the knowledge economy," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 36(3), pages 525-541.
- Anthony F. J. Raan, 2006. "Comparison of the Hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment for 147 chemistry research groups," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 67(3), pages 491-502, June.
- Per O. Seglen, 1992. "The skewness of science," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 43(9), pages 628-638, October.
- J Sylvan Katz, 2000. "Scale-independent indicators and research evaluation," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 27(1), pages 23-36, February.
- Wolfgang Glänzel, 2010. "The role of the h-index and the characteristic scores and scales in testing the tail properties of scientometric distributions," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 83(3), pages 697-709, June.
- Ludo Waltman & Nees Jan van Eck & Anthony F. J. van Raan, 2012. "Universality of citation distributions revisited," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 63(1), pages 72-77, January.
Citations
Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
Cited by:
- Diniz-Filho, José Alexandre F. & Fioravanti, Maria Clorinda S. & Bini, Luis Mauricio & Rangel, Thiago Fernando, 2016. "Drivers of academic performance in a Brazilian university under a government-restructuring program," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 10(1), pages 151-161.
- R. Álvarez & E. Cahué & J. Clemente-Gallardo & A. Ferrer & D. Íñiguez & X. Mellado & A. Rivero & G. Ruiz & F. Sanz & E. Serrano & A. Tarancón & Y. Vergara, 2015. "Analysis of academic productivity based on Complex Networks," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 104(3), pages 651-672, September.
- Andrea Bonaccorsi & Cinzia Daraio & Stefano Fantoni & Viola Folli & Marco Leonetti & Giancarlo Ruocco, 2017. "Do social sciences and humanities behave like life and hard sciences?," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 112(1), pages 607-653, July.
- Achraf Haddad & Anis El Ammari & Abdelfattah Bouri, 2020. "Comparative and Demonstrative Study Between the Liquidity of Islamic and Conventional Banks in a Financial Stability Period: Which Type of Banks Is the Most Liquid?," International Journal of Financial Research, International Journal of Financial Research, Sciedu Press, vol. 11(1), pages 252-273, January.
- Fabio Zagonari, 2019. "Scientific Production and Productivity for Characterizing an Author’s Publication History: Simple and Nested Gini’s and Hirsch’s Indexes Combined," Publications, MDPI, vol. 7(2), pages 1-30, May.
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Cinzia Daraio & Giancarlo Ruocco, 2012. "An Empirical Approach to Compare the Performance of Heterogeneous Academic Fields," DIAG Technical Reports 2012-03, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".
- Ruiz-Castillo, Javier & Costas, Rodrigo, 2014.
"The skewness of scientific productivity,"
Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 8(4), pages 917-934.
- Costas, Rodrigo, 2014. "The skewness of scientific productivity," UC3M Working papers. Economics we1402, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de EconomÃa.
- Zhihui Zhang & Ying Cheng & Nian Cai Liu, 2015. "Improving the normalization effect of mean-based method from the perspective of optimization: optimization-based linear methods and their performance," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 102(1), pages 587-607, January.
- Javier Ruiz-Castillo, 2013. "The role of statistics in establishing the similarity of citation distributions in a static and a dynamic context," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 96(1), pages 173-181, July.
- S. R. Goldberg & H. Anthony & T. S. Evans, 2015. "Modelling citation networks," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 105(3), pages 1577-1604, December.
- Andrea Bonaccorsi & Cinzia Daraio & Stefano Fantoni & Viola Folli & Marco Leonetti & Giancarlo Ruocco, 2017. "Do social sciences and humanities behave like life and hard sciences?," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 112(1), pages 607-653, July.
- Zhihui Zhang & Ying Cheng & Nian Cai Liu, 2014. "Comparison of the effect of mean-based method and z-score for field normalization of citations at the level of Web of Science subject categories," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 101(3), pages 1679-1693, December.
- Vîiu, Gabriel-Alexandru, 2017. "Disaggregated research evaluation through median-based characteristic scores and scales: a comparison with the mean-based approach," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 11(3), pages 748-765.
- Ruiz-Castillo, Javier & Costas, Rodrigo, 2018.
"Individual and field citation distributions in 29 broad scientific fields,"
Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 12(3), pages 868-892.
- Costas, Rodrigo, 2018. "Individual and Field Citation Distributions in 29 Broad Scientific Fields," UC3M Working papers. Economics 26100, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de EconomÃa.
- Abramo, Giovanni & Cicero, Tindaro & D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea, 2012. "How important is choice of the scaling factor in standardizing citations?," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 6(4), pages 645-654.
- Ruiz-Castillo, Javier & Waltman, Ludo, 2015.
"Field-normalized citation impact indicators using algorithmically constructed classification systems of science,"
Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 9(1), pages 102-117.
- Waltman, Ludo, 2014. "Field-normalized citation impact indicators using algorithmically constructed classification systems of science," UC3M Working papers. Economics we1403, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de EconomÃa.
- Vîiu, Gabriel-Alexandru, 2018. "The lognormal distribution explains the remarkable pattern documented by characteristic scores and scales in scientometrics," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 12(2), pages 401-415.
- Thelwall, Mike & Wilson, Paul, 2014. "Distributions for cited articles from individual subjects and years," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 8(4), pages 824-839.
- Waltman, Ludo, 2016. "A review of the literature on citation impact indicators," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 10(2), pages 365-391.
- Albarrán, Pedro & Ortuño, Ignacio & Ruiz-Castillo, Javier, 2011.
"The measurement of low- and high-impact in citation distributions: Technical results,"
Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 5(1), pages 48-63.
- Albarrán, Pedro & Ortuño, Ignacio, 2009. "The measurement of low- and high-impact in citation distributions : technical results," UC3M Working papers. Economics we095735, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de EconomÃa.
- T. S. Evans & N. Hopkins & B. S. Kaube, 2012. "Universality of performance indicators based on citation and reference counts," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 93(2), pages 473-495, November.
- Bouyssou, Denis & Marchant, Thierry, 2016.
"Ranking authors using fractional counting of citations: An axiomatic approach,"
Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 10(1), pages 183-199.
- Denis Bouyssou & Thierry Marchant, 2016. "Ranking authors using fractional counting of citations: An axiomatic approach," Post-Print hal-01397699, HAL.
- Dunaiski, Marcel & Geldenhuys, Jaco & Visser, Willem, 2019. "On the interplay between normalisation, bias, and performance of paper impact metrics," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 13(1), pages 270-290.
- Pedro Albarrán & Juan A. Crespo & Ignacio Ortuño & Javier Ruiz-Castillo, 2011.
"The skewness of science in 219 sub-fields and a number of aggregates,"
Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 88(2), pages 385-397, August.
- Ruiz-Castillo, Javier & Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio & Albarran, Pedro & Crespo, Juan A., 2010. "The Skewness of Science in 219 Sub-Fields and a Number of Aggregates," CEPR Discussion Papers 8126, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Albarrán, Pedro & Crespo, Juan A. & Ortuño, Ignacio, 2011. "The skewness of science in 219 sub-fields and a number of aggregates," UC3M Working papers. Economics we1109, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de EconomÃa.
- Crespo, Juan A. & Albarrán, Pedro & Ortuño, Ignacio, 2010. "The skewness of science in 219 sub-fields and a number of aggregates," UC3M Working papers. Economics we1038, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de EconomÃa.
- Tol, Richard S.J., 2013.
"The Matthew effect for cohorts of economists,"
Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 7(2), pages 522-527.
- Richard S. J. Tol, 2013. "The Matthew Effect for Cohorts of Economists," Working Paper Series 5513, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.
More about this item
Keywords
Research assessment; Normalization; Scaling; Universality; Italian universities;All these keywords.
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:97:y:2013:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-013-1038-0. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.