Citation indices and dimensional homogeneity
Digital Libraries
2017-01-04 v1
Abstract
The importance of dimensional analysis and dimensional homogeneity in bibliometric studies is always overlooked. In this paper, we look at this issue systematically and show that most h-type indices have the dimensions of [P], where [P] is the basic dimensional unit in bibliometrics which is the unit publication or paper. The newly introduced Euclidean index, based on the Euclidean length of the citation vector has the dimensions [P3/2]. An empirical example is used to illustrate the concepts.
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@article{arxiv.1701.00612,
title = {Citation indices and dimensional homogeneity},
author = {Gangan Prathap},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.00612},
year = {2017}
}
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10 pages, 1 table, 1 figure