Double rank analysis for research assessment

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Highlights：

• Research assessment can be based exclusively on the ranking position of publications.

• Publications have two ranking positions: in the world and in country or institution.

• Double rank plot of publications deviates slightly from a power law.

• Double rank power-law allows estimating the likelihood of being highly cited.

摘要

•Research assessment can be based exclusively on the ranking position of publications.•Publications have two ranking positions: in the world and in country or institution.•Double rank plot of publications deviates slightly from a power law.•Double rank power-law allows estimating the likelihood of being highly cited.

论文关键词：Research assessment,Bibliometric analysis,Citation distribution,Lognormal distribution,Double-rank analysis

论文评审过程：Received 7 July 2017, Revised 18 October 2017, Accepted 20 November 2017, Available online 27 November 2017, Version of Record 27 November 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.11.004