A systematic empirical comparison of different approaches for normalizing citation impact indicators

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Highlights：

• How to normalize bibliometric indicators to correct for differences in citation practices between fields?

• A systematic large-scale empirical comparison of normalization approaches is presented.

• Source normalization generally performs better than classification-system-based normalization.

• Fractional citation counting does not perform well.

摘要

•How to normalize bibliometric indicators to correct for differences in citation practices between fields?•A systematic large-scale empirical comparison of normalization approaches is presented.•Source normalization generally performs better than classification-system-based normalization.•Fractional citation counting does not perform well.

论文关键词：Citation,Classification system,Normalization,Source normalization

论文评审过程：Received 28 March 2013, Revised 5 August 2013, Accepted 6 August 2013, Available online 31 August 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2013.08.002