Return on citation: a consistent metric to evaluate papers, journals and researchers
Digital Libraries
2014-12-30 v1
Abstract
Evaluating and comparing the academic performance of a journal, a researcher or a single paper has long remained a critical, necessary but also controversial issue. Most of existing metrics invalidate comparison across different fields of science or even between different types of papers in the same field. This paper proposes a new metric, called return on citation (ROC), which is simply a citation ratio but applies to evaluating the paper, the journal and the researcher in a consistent way, allowing comparison across different fields of science and between different types of papers and discouraging unnecessary and coercive/self-citation.
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@article{arxiv.1412.8420,
title = {Return on citation: a consistent metric to evaluate papers, journals and researchers},
author = {Tiancheng Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.8420},
year = {2014}
}