Inconsistencies of the Highly-Cited-Publications Indicator
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2013-05-09 v1 Physics and Society
Abstract
One way of evaluating individual scientists is the determination of the number of highly cited publications, where the threshold is given by a large reference set. It is shown that this indicator behaves in a counterintuitive way, leading to inconsistencies in the ranking of different scientists.
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@article{arxiv.1302.6391,
title = {Inconsistencies of the Highly-Cited-Publications Indicator},
author = {Michael Schreiber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.6391},
year = {2013}
}
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8 pages, 5 tables, accepted for publication in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology