Measuring the citation impact of journals with generalized Lorenz curves

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Highlights：

• We summarize the most important stochastic orderings between quantile functions of journal citation distributions.

• In general, higher journal impact factors are not justified by any dominance relation.

• We propose a new index that may yield more “reliable” rankings between journals.

摘要

•We summarize the most important stochastic orderings between quantile functions of journal citation distributions.•In general, higher journal impact factors are not justified by any dominance relation.•We propose a new index that may yield more “reliable” rankings between journals.

论文关键词：Journal impact factor,Stochastic dominance,Quantile function,Lorenz curve

论文评审过程：Received 7 September 2016, Revised 23 February 2017, Accepted 16 May 2017, Available online 20 June 2017, Version of Record 20 June 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.05.005