Investigations on the step-based research indices of Chambers and Miller

Gerhard J. Woeginger

Journal of Informetrics, 2014, vol. 8, issue 3, 659-666

Abstract: In a recent paper, Chambers and Miller introduced two fundamental axioms for scientific research indices. We perform a detailed analysis of these two axioms, thereby providing clean combinatorial characterizations of the research indices that satisfy these axioms and of the so-called step-based indices. We single out the staircase indices as a particularly simple subfamily of the step-based indices, and we provide a simple axiomatic characterization for them.

Keywords: Scientific impact measure; Citation analysis; Axiomatization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2014.06.001

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