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Inconsistencies in the highly cited publications indicator

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  • Michael Schreiber
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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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  • Michael Schreiber, 2013. "Inconsistencies in the highly cited publications indicator," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 64(6), pages 1298-1302, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:64:y:2013:i:6:p:1298-1302
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.22824
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    1. Bouyssou, Denis & Marchant, Thierry, 2014. "An axiomatic approach to bibliometric rankings and indices," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 8(3), pages 449-477.

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