Document Type : Articles
Authors
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE - IUL), ISCTE Business School Economics Department, BRU - IUL (Business Research Unit), Lisboa, Portugal.
Abstract
Despite the drawbacks already pointed out and the wide set of variants suggested to overcome some of them, the -index is the most used measure to conduct author-level scientific evaluation. Simplicity is probably its main advantage and the reason for its popularity. The main goal of the current study is to propose an index that is directly linked and almost perfectly correlated with the -index but is even simpler to obtain. Our index does not require any form of calculation. It disregards the distribution of citations among the papers of the author. Instead, only the total number of papers and the total number of citations of the author are used to obtain the final score. The score of each author can be seen in the table we present in this study. Although much simpler than the -index (and other measures that account for the distribution of citations), our index produces the same general conclusions. We illustrate the application of this index with a sample of economists.https://dorl.net/dor/20.1001.1.20088302.2021.19.2.2.0
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