Scholarly influence

We introduce a new class of measures of scholarly influence, which we term step-based indices. This class includes the prominent h-index, the publication count, and the i10-index. We show that the class of step-based indices is characterized by two axioms, consistency with worse scientists and consi...

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Published inJournal of economic theory Vol. 151; pp. 571 - 583
Main Authors Chambers, Christopher P., Miller, Alan D.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Elsevier Inc 01.05.2014
Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Inc
Subjects
Axiomatization
Axioms
Citation index
Class
Consistency
Counting
Documents
Economic behaviour
Economic models
Economic theory
Economics
h-Index
Hirsch index
i10-Index
Indexes
Intellectual influence
Measurement
Measurement techniques
Scientists
Studies
A1
D63
Axioms
i10-Index
Citation index
h-Index
C71
Intellectual influence
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Summary:We introduce a new class of measures of scholarly influence, which we term step-based indices. This class includes the prominent h-index, the publication count, and the i10-index. We show that the class of step-based indices is characterized by two axioms, consistency with worse scientists and consistency with better scientists. We also introduce a new index, the junior/senior-index, which is a step-based index that combines the best features of the h-index with those of the i10-index.
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ISSN:0022-0531
1095-7235
DOI:10.1016/j.jet.2014.01.001