The Herrero-Villar approach to citation impact

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Highlights：

• Many important citation impact indicators widely used in practice can be formulated as additive rules.

• Additive rules are based upon a partition of the field citations into ordered categories, along with some external scores to weigh those categories.

• This paper introduces a new ranking procedure that is not an additive rule and it does not need an external weighting scheme.

• Given a set of ordered categories, the HV procedure measures the relative performance of the different research units in terms of a series of tournaments in which each unit is repeatedly confronted with all others.

摘要

•Many important citation impact indicators widely used in practice can be formulated as additive rules.•Additive rules are based upon a partition of the field citations into ordered categories, along with some external scores to weigh those categories.•This paper introduces a new ranking procedure that is not an additive rule and it does not need an external weighting scheme.•Given a set of ordered categories, the HV procedure measures the relative performance of the different research units in terms of a series of tournaments in which each unit is repeatedly confronted with all others.

论文关键词：Citation impact,Additive rules,Tournaments,Relative research performance,Worth

论文评审过程：Received 19 December 2016, Revised 26 April 2017, Accepted 26 April 2017, Available online 17 May 2017, Version of Record 17 May 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.04.008