Research assessment by percentile-based double rank analysis

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Highlights：

• Double rank distributions fit well to power laws.

• Distribution of local publications in world percentiles is a double rank distribution.

• Percentile-based double rank is statistically more robust than normal double rank.

• Percentile-based double rank analysis asserts the likelihood of highly cited papers.

摘要

•Double rank distributions fit well to power laws.•Distribution of local publications in world percentiles is a double rank distribution.•Percentile-based double rank is statistically more robust than normal double rank.•Percentile-based double rank analysis asserts the likelihood of highly cited papers.

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

论文评审过程：Received 4 December 2017, Revised 26 January 2018, Accepted 26 January 2018, Available online 5 February 2018, Version of Record 5 February 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.01.011