Investigations on the step-based research indices of Chambers and Miller

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Highlights：

• We perform a detailed analysis of two axioms introduced by Chambers and Miller for scientific research indices.

• We provide clean combinatorial characterizations of the research indices that satisfy these axioms and of the so-called step-based indices.

• We single out the staircase indices and provide a simple axiomatic characterization for them.

摘要

Highlights•We perform a detailed analysis of two axioms introduced by Chambers and Miller for scientific research indices.•We provide clean combinatorial characterizations of the research indices that satisfy these axioms and of the so-called step-based indices.•We single out the staircase indices and provide a simple axiomatic characterization for them.

论文关键词：Scientific impact measure,Citation analysis,Axiomatization

论文评审过程：Received 5 March 2014, Revised 27 May 2014, Accepted 3 June 2014, Available online 21 June 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.06.001