The role of baseline granularity for benchmarking citation impact. The case of CSS profiles

• Published in: Scientometrics Vol. 116; no. 1; pp. 521 - 536
• Main Authors: Glänzel, Wolfgang, Thijs, Bart
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.07.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agglomeration; Citation analysis; Computer Science; Information Storage and Retrieval; Library Science; Quantiles; Characteristic scores and scales; Journal citation measures; Granularity; Citation impact
• ISSN: 0138-9130; 1588-2861
• DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2747-1

In this paper we study the effect of granularity on Characteristic Scores and Scales (CSS). Unlike the traditional indicators that are mostly based on means and quantiles, CSS require the reduction of the citation distributions collaboration of the underlying reference population to four states (cla...