Towards field-adjusted production: Estimating research productivity from a zero-truncated distribution

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Highlights：

• Waring based estimation of the zero-class of a zero-truncated publication frequency distribution (and estimates of publications per researcher based thereon) bear real significance.

• Waring estimations are reasonably stable (given a sufficiently large data set).

• The methodology should be used to produce more relevant citation averages per unit.

• Establishing Field Adjusted Production values will provide the basis for a new type of ranking of universities.

摘要

•Waring based estimation of the zero-class of a zero-truncated publication frequency distribution (and estimates of publications per researcher based thereon) bear real significance.•Waring estimations are reasonably stable (given a sufficiently large data set).•The methodology should be used to produce more relevant citation averages per unit.•Establishing Field Adjusted Production values will provide the basis for a new type of ranking of universities.

论文关键词：Research productivity,Waring distribution,Field adjusted production,Size-dependent indicators

论文评审过程：Received 7 April 2016, Revised 15 September 2016, Accepted 15 September 2016, Available online 20 October 2016, Version of Record 20 October 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.09.002