A Novel Indicator to Avoid Ranking Conflicts among Individual Authors: Analysis with Authors’ Productivity
Keywords:
Scientists’ Ranking; Scientometric Indicator; Bibliometric Indicator; Citation-based Ranking; B(H) Index; B(G) Index; H Index; G IndexAbstract
Citation received from scholarly sources has become a standard and an indirect measure to assess the impact as well as the reputation of the author.There are several indices which measure the rank of the author, institutes, journals as well as a country. But most of the indices stress solely on highly cited papers. There are only a few indices that count total number of papers and related citation values together. Two new quality assessment indicators have been introduced in this paper in order to avoid the conflicts between the rankings of authors, journals or institutions. The name given these two new indicators are BD(H) index and BD(G) index, which stand for Balanced Deviation of citation from h index and g index respectively. These two new indicators have been tested for twenty-five top-ranked authors in the field of protein chemistry, which shows the non-occurrence of the overlapping of rankings. This new method of ranking mechanism takes these two parameters and has potential to generate a family of indices. The formulation of these two new indicators is essentially based on the classical standard deviation method of descriptive statistics.
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