Global informetric impact: A description and definition using bundles

Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau

Journal of Informetrics, 2023, vol. 17, issue 1

Abstract: Inspired by the Lorenz curve for evenness or concentration, and the corresponding axioms, we construct a theory leading to the notion of global impact. In this theory, we construct a relation that plays the role of the Lorenz dominance order for evenness or concentration theory. The notion of global impact that we obtain is such that well-known global impact bundles such as percentiles, the cumulative number of items produced by the x most productive sources, the average production of the x most productive sources, the generalized h- and g-indices, and the highest number of citations indeed measure impact in our sense of the word.

Keywords: Global impact; Global impact bundle; Non-normalized Lorenz curve; Information production process (IPP) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2022.101366

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