Jointly valuing journal visibility and author citation count: An axiomatic approach

M. Ryan Haley and M Kevin McGee

Journal of Informetrics, 2020, vol. 14, issue 1

Abstract: This paper proposes a simple, flexible, axiom-based mechanism for facilitating the comparison between a scholar's citation count and the visibility of the journals wherein the scholar's articles were published. The goal is to help research review bodies easily grasp the distinction these two forms of scholarly accomplishment and to provide a transparent way to articulate expectations about them to scholars. The approach is demonstrated using a widely applied and cooperative functional form that can reflect, via different parameter values, a wide range of possible beliefs about the relative merits of citation counts and journal visibility.

Keywords: Journal prestige; Scholar ranking; Citations; Journal visibility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 M5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2019.100988

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