A comparison of two ways of evaluating research units working in different scientific fields

Scientometrics

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 539-561

  Perianes Rodriguez, Antonio ^a   Ruiz Castillo, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aggregation; All sciences case; Citation analysis; Field normalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956620541     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1801-5     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Albarrán, P., Crespo, J., Ortuño, I., & Ruiz-Castillo, J. (2011a). The skewness of science in 219 sub-fields and a number of aggregates. Scientometrics,88, 385–397.
2. Albarrán, P., Ortuño, I., & Ruiz-Castillo, J. (2011b). The measurement of low- and high-impact in citation distributions: Technical results. Journal of Informetrics,5, 48–63.
3. Bornmann, L., De Moya Anegón, F., & Leydesdorff, L. (2012). The new excellence indicator in the world report of the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2011. Journal of Informetrics,6, 333–335.
4. Brzezinski, M. (2015). Power laws in citation distributions: Evidence from Scopus. Scientometrics,103, 213–228.
5. Cowell, F. (2000). Measurement of inequality. In A. B. Atkinson & F. Bourguignon (Eds.), Handbook of income distribution (Vol. 1, pp. 87–166). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
6. Crespo, J. A., Herranz, N., Li, Y., & Ruiz-Castillo, J. (2014). The effect on citation inequality of differences in citation practices at the Web of Science subject category level. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,65, 1244–1256.
7. Crespo, J. A., Li, Y., & Ruiz-Castillo, J. (2013). The measurement of the effect on citation inequality of differences in citation practices across scientific fields. PLoS ONE,8, e58727.
8. Foster, J. E., Greeer, J., & Thorbecke, E. (1984). A class of decomposable poverty measures. Econometrica,52, 761–766.
9. Foster, J. E., & Shorrocks, A. (1991). Subgroup consistent poverty indices. Econometrica,59, 687–709.
10. Groeneveld, R. A., & Meeden, G. (1984). Measuring skewness and kurtosis. The Statistician,33, 391–399.
11. Li, Y., Castellano, C., Radicchi, F., & Ruiz-Castillo, J. (2013). Quantitative evaluation of alternative field normalization procedures. Journal of Informetrics,7, 746–755.
12. Perianes-Rodriguez, A., & Ruiz-Castillo, J. (2015a). An alternative to field-normalization in the aggregation of heterogeneous scientific fields. In A. Ali Salah, Y. Tonta, A. A. Akdag Salah, C. Sugimoto & U. Al (Eds.), Proceedings of ISSI 2015 Istanbul: 15th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics conference (pp. 294–304), Istanbul, Turkey, 29 June–3 July, 2015. Istanbul: Bogaziçi University.
13. Perianes-Rodriguez, A., & Ruiz-Castillo, J. (2015b). Multiplicative versus fractional counting methods for co-authored publications. The case of the 500 universities in the Leiden Ranking. Journal of Econometrics9, 917–989.
14. Perianes-Rodriguez, A., & Ruiz-Castillo, J. (2015c). University citation distributions. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,. doi:10.1002/asi.23619.
15. Radicchi, F., & Castellano, C. (2012). A reverse engineering approach to the suppression of citation biases reveals universal properties of citation distributions. PLoS ONE,7, e33833.
16. Radicchi, F., Fortunato, S., & Castellano, C. (2008). Universality of citation distributions: Toward an objective measure of scientific impact. PNAS,105, 17268–17272.
17. Ruiz-Castillo, J. (2014). The comparison of classification-system-based normalization procedures with source normalization alternatives in Waltman and Van Eck. Journal of Informetrics,8, 25–28.
18. Ruiz-Castillo, J., & Waltman, L. (2015). Field-normalized citation impact indicators using algorithmically constructed classification systems of science. Journal of Informetrics,9, 102–117.
19. Schubert, A., Glänzel, W., & Braun, T. (1987). Subject field characteristic citation scores and scales for assessing research performance. Scientometrics,12, 267–292.
20. Thelwall, M., & Wilson, P. (2014). Distributions for cited articles from individual subjects and years. Journal of Informetrics,8, 824–839.
21. Waltman, L., Calero-Medina, C., Kosten, J., Noyons, E. C. M., Tijssen, R. J. W., Van Eck, N. J., et al. (2012a). The Leiden Ranking 2011/2012: Data collection, indicators, and interpretation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,63, 2419–2432.
22. Waltman, L., & Schreiber, M. (2013). On the calculation of percentile-based bibliometric indicators. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,64, 372–379.
23. Waltman, L., & Van Eck, N. J. (2012). A new methodology for constructing a publication-level classification system of science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,63, 2378–2392.
24. Waltman, L., & Van Eck, N. J. (2013). A systematic empirical comparison of different approaches for normalizing citation impact indicators. Journal of Informetrics,7, 833–849.
25. Waltman, L., Van Eck, N. J., & Van Raan, A. F. J. (2012b). Universality of citation distributions revisited. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,63, 72–77.