Fairer citation-based metrics
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2014-08-19 v1 Computers and Society
Abstract
I describe a simple modification which can be applied to any citation count-based index (e.g. Hirsch's h-index) quantifying a researcher's publication output. The key idea behind the proposed approach is that the merit for the citations of a paper should be distributed amongst its authors according to their relative contributions. In addition to producing inherently fairer metrics I show that the proposed modification has the potential to partially normalize for the unfair effects of honorary authorship and thus discourage this practice.
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@article{arxiv.1408.3881,
title = {Fairer citation-based metrics},
author = {Ognjen Arandjelovic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.3881},
year = {2014}
}