An index for SSRN downloads

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Highlights：

• We propose a new index to quantify SSRN downloads.

• Our index reflects the author's productivity via paper download numbers.

• Our index is inspired by but not the same as the h-index.

• We analyze data for about 30,000 authors and 367,000 papers.

• We find a simple empirical formula for the SSRN author rank via the number of downloads.

摘要

•We propose a new index to quantify SSRN downloads.•Our index reflects the author's productivity via paper download numbers.•Our index is inspired by but not the same as the h-index.•We analyze data for about 30,000 authors and 367,000 papers.•We find a simple empirical formula for the SSRN author rank via the number of downloads.

论文关键词：SSRN downloads,Quantitative index,h-Index,g-Index,Citations,Log-normal,Exponential

论文评审过程：Received 28 October 2015, Revised 13 November 2015, Accepted 13 November 2015, Available online 14 December 2015, Version of Record 14 December 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2015.11.005